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OctoberCMS vs ProcessWire: What are the differences?

What is OctoberCMS? Open-source, self-hosted CMS platform based on the Laravel PHP Framework. October is a Content Management System (CMS) and web platform whose sole purpose is to make your development workflow simple again. We feel building websites has become a convoluted and confusing process that leaves developers unsatisfied, we want to turn you around to the simpler side and get back to basics.

What is ProcessWire? CMS with a jQuery inspired content API. ProcessWire is an open source content management system (CMS) and web application framework aimed at the needs of designers, developers and their clients. ProcessWire gives you more control over your fields, templates and markup than other platforms, and provides a powerful template system that works the way you do.

OctoberCMS and ProcessWire can be categorized as "Self-Hosted Blogging / CMS" tools.

"Get back to basics" is the top reason why over 13 developers like OctoberCMS, while over 10 developers mention "Superb api" as the leading cause for choosing ProcessWire.

OctoberCMS and ProcessWire are both open source tools. It seems that OctoberCMS with 8.76K GitHub stars and 1.98K forks on GitHub has more adoption than ProcessWire with 748 GitHub stars and 226 GitHub forks.

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Pros of OctoberCMS
Pros of ProcessWire
  • 21
    Get back to basics
  • 17
    Highly customizable
  • 15
    Open-source, decent documentation
  • 12
    Laravel based
  • 12
    Easy to use
  • 11
    Production ready high speed backend development
  • 9
    Perfect frontend developer tool
  • 5
    Configurable backend
  • 5
    Perfect backend UI
  • 2
    Great community
  • 15
    Flexible, powerful, simple
  • 15
    Great community support
  • 13
    Superb api
  • 11
    Easy to learn and powerful to work with
  • 4
    100% custom frontend code
  • 4
    Easy to create custom functionality
  • 2
    Template engine agnositc

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Cons of OctoberCMS
Cons of ProcessWire
  • 2
    Expensive recurring licence cost
  • 2
    Closed source
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    What is OctoberCMS?

    It is a Laravel-based CMS engineered for simplicity. It has a simple and intuitive interface. It provides a consistent structure with an emphasis on reusability so you can focus on building something unique while we handle the boring bits.

    What is ProcessWire?

    ProcessWire is an open source content management system (CMS) and web application framework aimed at the needs of designers, developers and their clients. ProcessWire gives you more control over your fields, templates and markup than other platforms, and provides a powerful template system that works the way you do

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