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OctoberCMS vs SiteCake: What are the differences?

What is OctoberCMS? Open-source, self-hosted CMS platform based on the Laravel PHP Framework. October is a Content Management System (CMS) and web platform whose sole purpose is to make your development workflow simple again. We feel building websites has become a convoluted and confusing process that leaves developers unsatisfied, we want to turn you around to the simpler side and get back to basics.

What is SiteCake? Tiny, simple, flat-file, drag and drop open source CMS. Sitecake is an easy to use CMS (Content Managament System) for small websites, with a WYSIWYG, drag&drop editor. A standard web hosting packet (a web server and PHP 5.4+) is all you need to install and use it.

OctoberCMS and SiteCake can be categorized as "Self-Hosted Blogging / CMS" tools.

Some of the features offered by OctoberCMS are:

  • Page Components
  • Extensible Platform
  • Simple AJAX Framework

On the other hand, SiteCake provides the following key features:

  • Drag & drop everything
  • Works with plain HTML
  • No database needed

OctoberCMS is an open source tool with 8.76K GitHub stars and 1.98K GitHub forks. Here's a link to OctoberCMS's open source repository on GitHub.

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Pros of OctoberCMS
Pros of SiteCake
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    Get back to basics
  • 17
    Highly customizable
  • 15
    Open-source, decent documentation
  • 12
    Laravel based
  • 12
    Easy to use
  • 11
    Production ready high speed backend development
  • 9
    Perfect frontend developer tool
  • 5
    Configurable backend
  • 5
    Perfect backend UI
  • 2
    Great community
  • 4
    Great for simple static sites
  • 2
    Simple to use
  • 1
    Easy Installation

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Cons of OctoberCMS
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    Expensive recurring licence cost
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    Closed source
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    What is OctoberCMS?

    It is a Laravel-based CMS engineered for simplicity. It has a simple and intuitive interface. It provides a consistent structure with an emphasis on reusability so you can focus on building something unique while we handle the boring bits.

    What is SiteCake?

    Sitecake is an easy to use CMS (Content Managament System) for small websites, with a WYSIWYG, drag&drop editor. A standard web hosting packet (a web server and PHP 5.4+) is all you need to install and use it.

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        What are some alternatives to OctoberCMS and SiteCake?
        WordPress
        The core software is built by hundreds of community volunteers, and when you’re ready for more there are thousands of plugins and themes available to transform your site into almost anything you can imagine. Over 60 million people have chosen WordPress to power the place on the web they call “home” — we’d love you to join the family.
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