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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.
Pros of OctoberCMS
- Get back to basics21
- Highly customizable17
- Open-source, decent documentation15
- Laravel based12
- Easy to use12
- Production ready high speed backend development11
- Perfect frontend developer tool9
- Configurable backend5
- Perfect backend UI5
- Great community2
Pros of ProcessWire
- Flexible, powerful, simple15
- Great community support15
- Superb api13
- Easy to learn and powerful to work with11
- 100% custom frontend code4
- Easy to create custom functionality4
- Template engine agnositc2
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Cons of OctoberCMS
- Expensive recurring licence cost2
- Closed source2