This is a personal list of items that make a great content management system from a management, design and development perspective. Flexibility, stability, access, development process and management process being key.
Here is the list of advanced features I would put in a system. This doesn’t include the basics as it is a personal list of items for me to expand on later. You can come back for more. I do plan to make my own Open Source CMS one day but not until I have had what I deem enough experience. Three years from now maybe.
This list doesn’t include some features you would expect because some things are better kept as plugins/modules. This is not my laundry list of wants. This is a list of what a good content management system would have.
The idea was inspired by my bad experiences with WordPress. I love WordPress guys. It is great. But, sometimes we need a fresh start or simply a project to show us how wrong we are.
Features
Content Management
- Custom content types that can have other content types as children.
- Multi relational taxonomies that can be used for many content types.
- Custom fields for content types and taxonomies.
- Dynamic organization of media content.
- The ability to group many media files into many groups. Good media grouping.
- Custom and independent theme menu system
Users
- Permissions and capabilities for roles and not for users.
- Multiple roles for users.
Development
- Site backup extension.
- Site performance and caching extensions.
- Command line tool.
- Cron and admin notification system.
- Easy querying of content.
- Localization.
- Easy one click FTP updating.
- Modularized automatic updates.
Themes
- Site themes and child themes.
- No admin themes but full output filtering.
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