CMS Made Simple 1.10.3

Re anonymous comment: "Migrating from one server to another can be a real pain."

I've migrated 100's of CMS Made Simple sites. It's as easy as it gets. Using phpMyAdmin is always an option, but I typically use the MySQL dump module.

1. Click one button from the CMSMS admin panel to backup the entire database.
2. Move that sql file and any associated design assets via ftp to your new server.
3. Click one button to restore on your new server.

I've been using CMSMS for a long time now myself. It's fantastic for small sites (perfect for just static/content-based ones). The back end is so simple for non-techies to edit pages, and for techies to create a template, and add styles to get the site up and running.

I think as soon as you want more than that it gets hit and miss. There are plenty of useful user-created modules, but using them can be a pain as the documentation is okay, but often very poor - often taking the "simple" out of it.
This leads to people asking for help on the forums, where, if there had been clear documentation in the first place, the user wouldn't have had to ask for help. Nine times out of ten, the information is there, but you have to search pretty hard for it.

I feel that it is a good CMS. If they could get their documentation to a high standard, it would be a GREAT CMS. I think at this point, their ability to fix the documentation will make or break this product in the future.

Give it a try though, certainly recommended.

Fantastic CMS never seen anything like this really excellent

I've been using CMS Made Simple in its various incarnations for 3 years now. I find it to be very lightweight in terms of server load and have had no problems with speed that I didn't get tenfold with other CMSes on the same server setup. In terms of support, because it's not backed by a large open-source company the support is mainly on the forums run by the people who develop the software and on IRC. If you post with a simple "help it doesn't work you're softwarz sux0r" you won't get much help. If you post with proper error messages and details of the steps you took and where you have already tried to find help then you will be assisted.

Personally I haven't had problems installing or running CMSMS for ages but that's just me. If you do have problems, check the forums for previous messages as in all likelihood you aren't the first person to have your problem and others will have experienced, and fixed, the issues you are having.

Fairly speedy, especially with the user-created caching module.

Great for simple sites, has capability for more --- but the code has no real documentation, and you basically have to read the entire codebase before you can begin serious module development. If you're willing to do that, though, the sky's the limit.

Migrating from one server to another can be a real pain. Small community who aren't very helpful.

I've used Joomla. But comparing to Joomla, this is light weight and fast. And really very easy to understand how it works. But only problem is, it has a small community and poor documentation compare to joomla.

this is the best cms i ever tried. simple and with regard to usability easy to use.

as a past user I can guarantee the following: it is slow. doesn't matter what you run it on. it's slow. wait until the v2 release to see if they speed things up. til then, don't waste your time.

Very small CMS, very easy to use. Converting my static web site to CMSMS took me less than 2 hours. I wanted a very special menu, so I took 2 days to understand an rebuild a new menu. Very simple and easy, to recommend for small websites with basic needs (news, search, ...)

Interesting....

slow

good

very good