CMS for User-Generated Content?

You've basically eliminated every CMS under the sun by insisting that no pre-made system could possibly handle the types of content you want...

But even so, I can still suggest two systems that might be configurable enough to do whatever it is that you need.

The first is Drupal. It's a CMS, written in PHP. It has a very very configurable and extendable system of content types (check out the Content Creation Kit), and has a huge range of pre-written modules and plugins (even the CCK has its own plugins).

Because of its flexibility, Drupal powers a huge range of sites - everything from single-author blogs, through community forums, up to http://whitehouse.gov. The Drupal site has a case studies page which lists many different types of sites built on Drupal.

If Drupal isn't flexible enough for you, you probably need to stop thinking about a CMS and start thinking about a Web Framework - Wikipedia has a comparison table to help you find one in your preferred language. Personally, I've only used Django; but Ruby on Rails and Grails are also popular.

I did not say 'types of content' I said 'specific forms and content niche'. Of course the general medium is supported by every cms. What I need is one that manages all the user and content input boilerplate stuff but yet gives me the power to choose the structure of the content. Hence in end user terms the form they use to submit their content to the site.Drupal is a relatively big learning curve due to it's general purpose nature so I'd go with this so long as there is not already a user generated content niche cms package out there.

rutherford 2010-01-03 13:05:40

just checked out the case studies page - they do not have a user generated content category and the closest category's examples (community portal site) only have user comments (on admin articles). To me that is not user generated content.

rutherford 2010-01-03 13:32:40

Of course they don't have a 'user generated content' category - UGC doesn't refer to a type of content, it refers to where the content comes from. A blog system could be UGC, if the blog allowed random people to sign up and start blogging (eg - all of blogger.com is UGC). A forum is most definitely UGC.

James Polley 2010-01-03 22:14:05

Perhaps if you could tell us what UGC *is*, to you (rather than just telling us what it isn't) we could give better recommendations?

James Polley 2010-01-03 22:15:16

UGC - as in a general method for inputting user created content in a format of my choosing ie ignoring wiki/blogger/forum structures allowing instead a way for the site admin to define format of each UGC item.Basically a multi-user CMS

rutherford 2010-01-30 19:06:58

I think the questioner needs to look at Drupal, and if it's not up to spec, come back and say why. I think when he says "shrink wrapped things" he means things like phpBB and MediaWiki.

Mike DeSimone 2010-01-02 03:05:53

Agree; when the questioner says "a blogging system, forum, wiki", WordPress, phpBB and MediaWiki are the three things that come to mind - but all three are designed for a single purpose and have fairly narrow data models to support that single purpose. Drupal is about as general-purpose as it's possible for a CMS to be without devolving into a general-purpose framework.

James Polley 2010-01-02 03:47:04

correct guys re MediaWiki etc

rutherford 2010-01-03 13:28:24

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