CMS Speed Dating: Find the Right CMS for Your Web Project
summary
Compares 10 CMS options with concrete tradeoffs: WordPress dominates 33–43% of the web but brings plugin attack surface and recent WP Engine/Automattic politics; Drupal fits large, multi‑department sites but needs heavy caching and many Twig templates; Grav is a flat‑file CMS (about 0.17% market share) using YAML + Twig; Ghost is Node + Ember with npm complexity; Jekyll is Ruby friendly with GitHub Actions for builds; Cockpit is a PHP headless CMS feeding a Vue frontend — used to build a working booze.bar inventory served statically.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction and speaker background
- 7:30WordPress overview and market share
- 19:27Drupal as a CMS option
- 25:23Grav and flat-file CMS
- 30:17Ghost blogging platform
- 33:52Jekyll static site generator
- 39:10Cockpit headless CMS
- 44:07Choosing the right CMS
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