🆚 CMS Made Simple vs. WordPress

CMS Made Simple is an open-source content management system written in PHP that enables users to build and manage websites with flexible templating, role-based permissions, and an extensible module system.

It includes versioned content editing, an add-on manager for installing extensions, built-in features such as news, search, and navigation, and supports multilingual sites and caching to improve performance.

WordPress is a widely used open-source content management system built on PHP and MySQL.

It offers a plugin ecosystem with over 60,000 extensions, thousands of themes, a block-based editor for content creation, REST API support, multisite capabilities, and a large community for support and development.

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

• 🔥 11st most popular in the Czech Republic in the CMS category.
• 🔥 13rd most popular in Poland in the CMS category.
• 🔥 15th most popular in New Zealand in the CMS category.
• 🔥 19th most popular in France in the CMS category.
• ⬆️ 21st most popular in the Netherlands in the CMS category.

• 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the CMS category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the CMS category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the CMS category.
• 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the CMS category.
• 🥇 Most popular in France in the CMS category.

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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