# Prior Art

Cortex CMS is inspired by many CMSs already in the wild, including but not limited to:

* [WordPress](https://wordpress.com/) - By far the most popular CMS due to its inherent simplicity and great [content creator](/glossary.md#content-creator) experience. Lacks flexibility and advanced distribution.
* [Drupal](https://www.drupal.org/) - Supports slightly more advanced distribution models, but lacks a great [content creator](/glossary.md#content-creator) experience, is not headless (lacks an API, so it does not support more advanced distribution), and can be very difficult to maintain and scale.
* [HippoCMS](https://www.onehippo.org/) - Supports advanced distribution models, features a novel backend ([JCR](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_repository_API_for_Java)), is headless, but is Java-based and potentially unwieldy.
* [Contentful](https://www.contentful.com/) - Supports advanced distribution models and is headless, but lacks a great [content creator](/glossary.md#content-creator) experience and is closed-source.
* [Prismic](https://prismic.io/) - similar to Contentful, but isn't quite as feature-rich, and is also closed source.
* [GraphCMS](https://graphcms.com/) - The closest analogue to Cortex CMS. Fully headless with a custom content model, the backend to this CMS is still closed-source.


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