Comments on: Ultra-lightweight CMS Perch Gets an Update: Developer API, Dynamic Pages and More

By: kksidd

kksidd — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 17:06:42 +0000

All these points mentioned about Perch can be achieved in CouchCMS (http://www.couchcms.com) natively using simple XHTML like tags.

More ever, it is free for personal and non-commercial sites.

By: Fx

Fx — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 14:31:39 +0000

Another tiny system that I use is DeepBlue CMS – http://dblue.org

By: Thom

Thom — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:13:59 +0000

Check out http://redaxscript.com – This is ultra lightweight!

By: natashastewart

natashastewart — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 12:08:35 +0000

I totally agree with @Maximilian Bartel, @Dan: Perch works better for other kinds of projects, for most projects I’d say.
But now, that’s my opinion.
Thank you for sharing this interesting and useful article.

By: Maximilian Bartel

Maximilian Bartel — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 09:09:00 +0000

Concrete is a great CMS but Perch works better for other kinds of projects.

I'm working with both of them on a daily basis and the best feature Perch offers is the option to simply create custom content templates via HTML and system variables.

It's a pretty straight forward process, great to create custom content structures and most of all, easy to use for the site owner. I used it to create a custom JQuery event calendar which required a certain HTML markup to work properly — it would be possible to create something like that by writing a PHP plugin for other CMS' as well but it was so much easier using Perch.

By: Andrew Emmett

Andrew Emmett — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 04:40:22 +0000

nanoCMS my favourite flat file cms is free open source and can be used on php5 servers. http://www.nanocms.co.uk dynamic pages and modules. Easy to move the site between servers via ftp. No MySQL database or tie into a service provider.

By: Enoch Root

Enoch Root — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:39:49 +0000

Alternately, you could try out drupalgardens.

http://www.drupalgardens.com/

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:07:38 +0000

I’d rather use Concrete5. Same concept, but it’s free. Why pay for each install? Concrete5 has been around for a while and it’s a solid CMS. It’s powerful for the developer, but super simple for the client to use. Check out the overview on http://concrete5.org