Cortex CMS
  • Introduction
  • Motivation
  • Core Concepts
  • Prior Art
  • Examples
  • Basics
    • Setup
      • Docker Compose
      • Manual Setup
      • Core & Plugin Development
    • Deployment
    • Tenancy & User Management
    • Building Content Types
    • Data Validation
    • Designing Indexes
    • Designing Wizards
    • Consuming Content
    • Scheduling Content
  • Advanced
    • Developing Plugins
      • Basic Architecture
      • Service Layer
      • Extending Search
      • WYSIWYG Widgets
      • Examples
    • Contributing
  • Troubleshooting
  • Roadmap
  • Branding Guide
  • Glossary
Powered by GitBook
On this page

Prior Art

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

  • WordPress - By far the most popular CMS due to its inherent simplicity and great content creator experience. Lacks flexibility and advanced distribution.

  • Drupal - Supports slightly more advanced distribution models, but lacks a great 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 - Supports advanced distribution models, features a novel backend (JCR), is headless, but is Java-based and potentially unwieldy.

  • Contentful - Supports advanced distribution models and is headless, but lacks a great content creator experience and is closed-source.

  • Prismic - similar to Contentful, but isn't quite as feature-rich, and is also closed source.

  • GraphCMS - The closest analogue to Cortex CMS. Fully headless with a custom content model, the backend to this CMS is still closed-source.

PreviousCore ConceptsNextExamples

Last updated 6 years ago