Every four years since 2010 I have been writing the ‘state of the CMS’ in which I compare how the major Free and Open Source (FOSS) content-management systems (CMSes) call themselves.<\/p>\n
Today’s version will likely be the last of the series.<\/p>\n
This is because in the past 12 years the main contenders for the title ‘popular CMS’ were all basically offering the same thing, namely an open source, LAMP-based generic CMS. That made them a natural category. Now that other types of CMS have started to compete in the top ten, it has become much harder to define a category to which these systems belong.<\/p>\n
Wordpress is still by far the biggest fish in the pond, but in the past 4 years hosted CMS-es have grown in importance and have grown bigger than what were for a good 10 years Wordpress’ only rivals, Drupal and Joomla. In fact, according to W3Techs (which I won’t link to, because their chart changes weekly or so), the three most popular CMS-es after Wordpress are now Shopify, Wix and Squarespace. And where four years ago Drupal and Joomla were the only CMS-es after Wordpress that had a better than 1% market share \u2014 my personal measure of significance here \u2014 now between 6 to 10 do, depending on who you ask and how you calculate market share.<\/p>\n
It seems, in other words, that the very definition of what a CMS is, is shifting, and that makes it less meaningful to continue this series.<\/p>\n
How have these systems called themselves over time and can we glean anything useful from any changes?<\/p>\n
Wordpress<\/strong> Drupal<\/strong> Joomla<\/strong> Wix<\/strong> Squarespace<\/strong> I have tried to figure out what Wix and Squarespace call themselves, but being commercial entities they are not really calling themselves anything. Instead they present themselves as a bunch of solutions to any number of problems you might have and leave it to the historians to provide them with a label. So Wix opens with “Create a website you’re proud of” and Squarespace with “Everything to sell anything”.<\/p>\n See also: State of the CMS in 2018<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Every four years since 2010 I have been writing the ‘state of the CMS’ in which I compare how the major Free and Open Source (FOSS) content-management systems (CMSes) call themselves. Today’s version will likely be the last of the series. This is because in the past 12 years the main contenders for the title … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-design-usability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2010: Semantic personal publishing platform
\n2014: Web software you can use to create a beautiful website or blog
\n2018: Open source software you can use to create a beautiful website, blog, or app
\n2022: Open source software you can use to create a beautiful website, blog, or app<\/p>\n
\n2010: Open source content management system
\n2014: Open source content management platform
\n2018: Open source content management system
\n2022: Digital experience platform (DXP)<\/p>\n
\n2010: Dynamic portal engine and content management system
\n2014: Content management system
\n2018: Content management system
\n2022: Content management system<\/p>\n
\n2022: [undefined]<\/p>\n
\n2022: [undefined]<\/p>\n