Easiest CMS to customize its User Interface ?

Question

Hello guys,

I'm actually working in a university-related project where the users would generate the site's content (quite a lot of searcheable static pages), having at the same time a profile's page, that the other users could see.

As I work usually with WordPress, I though that I could make use of WordPress Multi User, but I found a bit difficult to modify the User Interface totally, which would be necessary for us, so we have the same look in the backend than in the frontend.

Do you know of some CMS who have an easily tweakable User Interface ? Maybe one which keep ideally separated the backend templates files from the processing stuff ?

There are some plugins to modify slightly the WP interface (they use the same CSS classes and IDs, with other attributes), but you are still under constraint because you should blatantly CSS hide a lot of things (not very elegant).

I'd like to theme the UI as freely as possible.

Thanks for your thoughs,

Answer 1

My organization uses Cascade; it seems to work well for various departments. It's XML-based.

Answer 2

Various wikis are fairly themable (depending on the exact model) and can support all sorts of things. Would that work?