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Bolt CMS vs ProcessWire: What are the differences?

Bolt CMS: An open source Content Management Tool. It is an open source Content Management Tool, which strives to be as simple and straightforward as possible. It is quick to set up, easy to configure, uses elegant templates; ProcessWire: CMS with a jQuery inspired content API. ProcessWire is an open source content management system (CMS) and web application framework aimed at the needs of designers, developers and their clients. ProcessWire gives you more control over your fields, templates and markup than other platforms, and provides a powerful template system that works the way you do.

Bolt CMS and ProcessWire can be categorized as "Self-Hosted Blogging / CMS" tools.

Bolt CMS and ProcessWire are both open source tools. Bolt CMS with 3.92K GitHub stars and 808 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than ProcessWire with 746 GitHub stars and 226 GitHub forks.

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    What is Bolt CMS?

    It is an open source Content Management Tool, which strives to be as simple and straightforward as possible. It is quick to set up, easy to configure, uses elegant templates.

    What is ProcessWire?

    ProcessWire is an open source content management system (CMS) and web application framework aimed at the needs of designers, developers and their clients. ProcessWire gives you more control over your fields, templates and markup than other platforms, and provides a powerful template system that works the way you do

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