Best CMS to run an online newspaper or magazine?

BillEssley · Nov 17, 2015

Hey there, What do you think what is the best CMS out there if you want to build a news or magazine site? Of course it needs highly SEO-able and easy to customize. I know more people here will suggest Wordpress or Joomla but do you have any alternatives?

professorrosado · Nov 18, 2015

Why not search Google if you're just looking for a list of CMS types? You don't give any parameters as to what constitutes the "best" CMS given that you want what WP does well, but you don't want it. I would worry about getting traffic and making it profitable more than working even harder just to get another CMS to hop and skip like WP.

rmmfree · Dec 16, 2015

Drupal has nice templates for magazines. Wordpress has a larger community and more themes, but perhaps you will be more comfortable with other CMS. The best way to know it is to try 2 or 3 to compare them and choose the one that fits your needs best.

ericplotz1 · Dec 16, 2015

The Magazine THeme on WordPress is the "best-looking" IMHO

Ron Killian · Dec 18, 2015

I have to agree, there are SO many very nice magazine theme's for wordpress. They can do some pretty amazing things these days. With drag and drop you can make the layout in so many different ways.

Never used any other CMS, so maybe my opinion is not a good one.

SEOPub · Dec 20, 2015

I have a couple of magazine-style sites going. I have used Wordpress for each. Any CMS is really what you make of it though. In the end, the only real advantage of Wordpress over other options is that it is so widely used. If you have a problem, it is more likely you will be able to find a quick solution to fix it.

I am using the Avada theme for my sites and would highly recommend it. It is HIGHLY customizable.

Hasan Raza · Jul 7, 2017

WordPress, because its very simple to work with, as in case of online newspaper or magazine, new content need to be added regularly, so WordPress CMS is the best choice this purpose.

DeguWeb · Jul 7, 2017

I don't understand why you wouldn't use WP - it is practically built around what you need it for.

vinaya · Jul 7, 2017

Though I am still building the website, I have an online newspaper. I have used wordpres for my online newspaper. I am using a free magazine theme called Color Mag. The theme is well suited for online newspaper and magazine. It has ads units on the header and side bars. The theme is also highly costomizible. I think wordpresss is best CMS for online magazine or newspapers. As suggested by commentators above, Drupal might be good, however, you need skills to use drupal. With wordpress, you don't need any programing skills.

openhosting · Jul 7, 2017

Been using the ColorMag theme for WP and it's working very well for my site. Pretty decent for a free theme IMO which you should try out!

lingfart · Jul 31, 2017

It's very easy to make a newspaper or magazine type of website with WordPress and you can do it with very little web design know-how! All you have to do is:
-Download the WordPress installer and install it in your website (here's a link to the WordPress site)
-Set up a few plugins like Jetpack and Ad Injection
-Go to Appearance --> Themes
-Go to add new theme and search for the words "newspaper" or "Magazine"

A lot of themes would show up. It is just a matter of selecting a theme that you like and installing and applying it to your site. There's even a live preview so that you could try it out before applying it completely to your website. Go with WordPress bro.

Soulwatcher · Aug 26, 2017

Hands down wordpress, there are so many newspaper and magazine to chose from that it's not even funny. And the best part is most of them are free.

P.S. I read a article the other day and it said that Wordpress is powering 50% of the websites on the internet today!

24x7serverman · Aug 28, 2017

I have newspaper site which I have developed in WordPress. You can directly search for the available themes for newspaper and magzine, you will get multiple themes.

Floxera-Jose · Aug 28, 2017

Many years ago we used to recommended Joomla/Mambo but now i agree that wordpress is much better.
WP has a great community of people developing great themes, require less server resources and is very stable.
Just buy your theme from a good developer/company.

WHGBTom · Aug 30, 2017

If you are OK with templating yourself, why not try Laravel with something like October CMS? That is highly customisable, can be built for scale and is very secure.

proteus · Sep 26, 2017

Your first step should be which CMS ?
and you second should be which theme, plugins etc

I agree with the previous posts WordPress, is a lot easier than Drupal and Joomla. You will find more themes, plugins and community support with WordPress, but if you need a the faster CMS then choose Drupal, but more pain

Brian9090 · Jul 19, 2019

WordPress is an easy-to-use platform, but when you want to promote your website, you may encounter many flaws. How about Magento? Did you think to move your E-commerce Store to Magento?

griya · Jul 20, 2019

I think Wordpress its the best one CMS recently. Why? Because using this CMS, you can optimise some features inside, especially for SEO purpose. If you want to maximise your SEO strategies for your news or magazine blog, here some tips that might be you are interested :

choose the responsive theme and mobile friendly
installing SSL certificate for security purpose
choose fast loading theme
build on reliable hosting to avoid interuption
installing caching plugin
installing SEO plugin
choose the news or magazine theme with good and simple visualisation

And many more tips that you can find on Google to get maximum results.

Jogel2 · Jul 26, 2019

My suggestion would be again WordPress and Joomla. There are many hosting plans optimized for these CMSs, and there're tons of plugins, themes, and information in case you encounter a problem with the CMSs.

BlaZeX · Jul 27, 2019

Theres no proper alternative to Wordpress.

Just use it.

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