Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
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Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware is a full-featured, web-based, multilingual (40+ languages), tightly integrated, all-in-one Wiki+CMS+Groupware, Free Source Software (GNU/LGPL), using PHP + Smarty, MySQL, Zend Framework, jQuery and Bootstrap.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
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Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Self-Hosted
- PHP
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WordPress Alternatives for Self Publishers
By the end of 2016 I felt WordPress was not working for me as a self publisher. I've been creating and maintaining my own sites since 1996, in one format or another. What I want in a CMS is a word processor for the web. Marketing, SEO, and fancy gimmicks are secondary to creating, publishing, and distributing content. I don't want to spend time learning and relearning how to use software. I'm picky about web design and I don't jump on trends just because they are new and flashy. Yes, I want my site to be read, but SEO and marketing are a slippery slope when it comes to ethics and trust. People don't read sites that focus on marketing - the more marketing hype, the less real readers.
WordPress is definitely geared to pleasing web developers and marketers, people who offer services like beginning a site, curation, maintenance and running a site for people who don't want to run a site themselves. People want automated sites to sell stuff. But, that's not what I want to do. So I left WordPress.
Over most of 2017 I tried alternatives to WordPress. I wanted a CMS (content management software) to be user friendly, rather than having to understand API and REST and other things I don't need or want to learn. I wanted something with the features WordPress keeps eliminating like keeping a list of links, having a bookmarklet to post links and content from other sites via my web browser. Very important was to find a CMS which was not mothballed and not focused on how they can make a buck from me. Also, self hosted.
I had a very hard time moving my sites out of WordPress and into anything else. Most other CMS do not have a way to migrate your sites, reliably. I've realized the best way to move sites from WordPress is not to migrate anything. Leave the old site up, just change it to a subdomain and start fresh on the main domain with which ever WordPress alternative you want to start using. You can move posts over manually, one by one. Or, you can use your old post content and create an updated post based on what you had written before. This would be simpler than trying to bring back your entire old site, especially if it was huge.
I have tried far more CMS than I am adding to this list. To be honest, I don't remember most of them well enough to give a review. Several were complicated to install which did not seem like a good beginning to use them to publish a site. So this list is mainly the highlights and lowlights of my CMS adventures beginning in 2017 and still ongoing in 2020.
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Comments and Reviews
For both users and implementors or developers. It's a weird patchwork of features that vary in quality and consistency. I can only recommend this to people who either know PHP (or should i say Smarty?) pretty well or who don't have high expectations and just need something versatile quickly.
It needs a seriously re-implemented frontend. No two admin pages have the same look and feel.
Dammit !
Their home page is so ugly. It looks like back in the 90s.
It don't want to see further.
DanMan: A few comments on your feedback.
"features that vary in quality and consistency.": True, but so would any system with tons of features, in an evolving landscape, and built by a large number of people. And in Tiki, they are all built-in (and optional), and work well together: http://tiki.org/FOSS+Web+Application+with+the+most+built-in+features
"I can only recommend this to people who either know PHP (or should i say Smarty?) pretty well": Well it really depends on your project (you looking for a web app or a framework?). I challenge you to tell me about a single other FOSS Web app with which you can do more without changing a line of PHP.
"It needs a seriously re-implemented frontend." - In Tiki 13, we are moving to Bootstrap to make it easier to have consistency in the look & feel.
"No two admin pages have the same look and feel." I don't really understand or agree with this one. The dozens of admin pages at tiki-admin.php all have the same format.
rjolivet: I agree, that it's not very nice. Want to help? :-)
The beauty of the home page should be a really small factor in your decision. Please check out: https://info.tiki.org/Benefits
@marclaporte: My feedback is dated Aug 2012, so all that may have changed obviously.
The thing is, if the features you actually need are the (somewhat) broken ones, all the other features don't matter. But you won't know about that until you've tried it, which can mean a lot of wasted time on evaluation.
About the backend: what i meant is: i tried to apply a custom backend skin, but the HTML was so inconsistent that I gave up quickly.
Great software ! Has improved in the last two or three years. Some of the bad comments below are sadly true. But it is part of the past, now the look is really good and all the main features are mature enough for business-level use. One of the fastest and most scalable CMS ever. Can drive many request at the same time without driving you web server to a stall.
Extremely flexible software that can organize business processes in an integrated way. I've used it for business and also community projects. Tiki offers a highly stable and configurable interface.