Lightweight CMS? (only basic WYSIWYG editing needed)

[ZakO]

Hi all,

I'm making a small site for somebody who basically knows nothing about computers, usually for people like him (... who can barely turn a computer on) I'd just do a static site and get him to contact me for changes, but he wants to be able to change it himself. :rolleyes:

Does anyone know of a lightweight CMS (free or commercial, PHP or ASP.NET) that is extremely easy to use (he only needs to be able to edit text / easily insert images). I've tried loads but they all seem too complex or limit you to having one 'block' of content per page so that severely limits how you can design the site, I need the CMS to work around the layout rather than having to design the layout around the limitations of the CMS.

The closest I came to what I was looking for is Wordpress (not exactly lightweight) with the pagely-multedit and use-role-editor plugins to allow more than one block of content and restrict the user permissions to just allow editing pages... but with those plugins it's a bit buggy.

Ideally I don't want to write my own so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, Thanks!

[farmeunit]

http://www.cmsmadesimple.org/

We use a plugin for Wordpress for permissions, but can't remember the name of it. The girl I work with actually does most of the content, I just fix stuff when she breaks it :) I'll look shortly though if you're still interested.

[Cupcakes]

• Symphony CMS
  
• Plone
  
• Frog CMS
  

You can play around with those lightweight CMS apps to see if any of them will do the trick. Truthfully, Wordpress isn't all that hard to set it up to "foolproof" it for a client.

You can utilize the functions.php to remove dashboard widgets (for all users but Admin) and there are a few other hacks/tips out there that would get what you might need done.. But that's if the rest of Wordpress is sufficient enough for your needs.

[primexx]

didn't someone at neowin write a system that catered to exactly this kind of thing? if i remember it was basically a hosted wysiwyg front end to edit static pages.

[farmeunit]

WP-CMS Post Control is what we use for permissions for Wordpress.

[p858snake]

website baker is pretty easy to use from memory.

[AnthonySterling]

  On 07/07/2010 at 01:52, primexx said:

didn't someone at neowin write a system that catered to exactly this kind of thing? if i remember it was basically a hosted wysiwyg front end to edit static pages.

Cushy CMS ?

[Jivan Naveen]

You can't get simpler than "LightnEasy". A new version has just been released.

[Kudos Veteran]

  On 07/07/2010 at 06:04, Jivan Naveen said:

You can't get simpler than "LightnEasy". A new version has just been released.

http://demo.opensourcecms.com/lightneasy3/LightNEasy.php

I find the demo less than inspiring.

[Jivan Naveen]

  On 07/07/2010 at 08:11, Kudos said:

http://demo.opensourcecms.com/lightneasy3/LightNEasy.php

I find the demo less than inspiring.

Inspiring... definitely not. So simple that even my mother could learn... yes

[Anooxy]

I use http://get-simple.info/ and it's definitely the best.

[jbonello]

FusionPHP

[Kudos Veteran]

  On 07/07/2010 at 08:36, Jivan Naveen said:

Inspiring... definitely not. So simple that even my mother could learn... yes

Hackable... absolutely. The code is awful, don't touch it with a barge pole.

Edit: http://demo.lightneasy.org/LightNEasy.php?page=news&id=1&showcomments=1

[REM2000]

NVM, i missed the bit about wordpress in your post

[Jivan Naveen]

  On 07/07/2010 at 09:06, Kudos said:

Hackable... absolutely. The code is awful, don't touch it with a barge pole.

That's good to know, thanks Kudos. Maybe you can pass your programmers eye over the other suggests. I've found Websitebaker a good one too and heard get-simple is easy. What do you think of these?