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Creating two CMS for one site, best practice

I am currently creating a (somewhat large) site for a magazine, the site mainly consists of sections such as: news (for different categories), members and some other things (for example, cricket, polls, previous covers, photo galleries that can mark, and the banner ad system).

Now, since most of the site is a typical blog style (one page page), I am thinking of using Wordpress as the main engine due to its powerful backend with a good (easy to use?) WYSIWYG editor, good page organization, media handling, and lots of other functions. Naturally, this leaves me "different". (banner management, photo tag management, etc.)

The easiest way (well, I guess) is to create another CMS (let's call it CMS2), handle all those things that would be impossible or probably difficult to integrate into a WP admin, and then tried to handle everything in an interface, style WP.

My questions:

  • Is it good (normal) for a website to have two (or more) CMSs?
  • What could go wrong? (or maybe there is something I should know ahead of time with this approach?)
  • Another alternative would be to look for another good, only way to deal with everything. But the main challenge now is finding a CMS that is powerful and flexible enough for them. What structure / CMS is most suitable for this (in your opinion)?
  • Another alternative?

Thank you very much in advance.

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To be honest, I think this is a pretty bad idea, at least in my own experience.

Main disadvantages:

  • doubles the amount of knowledge an administrator / editor should have
  • doubles the number of security threats.
  • doubles the number of updates / fixes of CMS installations.
  • reduces the likelihood of finding a replacement for you.
  • this makes SEO tasks difficult.
  • this makes development difficult if the functionality of the two sites is expected to interact.
  • it makes it difficult or impossible for interaction between objects of two sites (due to CMS limitations)


What will this second CMS be? If this is a site with the parameters you specified, why not use a real CMS? Both Drupal and Joomla can handle all the requirements you describe!

Take some time to evaluate which one to choose and upgrade to one CMS!

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I think this is too complicated and that problems are likely to arise around the fact that there are two systems. It's also not very convenient in terms of usability.



You should look at some of the more powerful CMS options. Drupal has many plugins and features available, be surprised if they can't do what you need to do. Joomla is also worth looking at, as is CMS Made Simple (CMSMS).

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It might be a good idea to use WordPress, depending on the functionality you want in your blogs. Drupal has a "blog" feature, but it's a little limited. (For example, people cannot leave comments using OpenID like they can in Word Press, although I haven't used Drupal in 6 months or so, it may have changed. For an example of Drupal blogs take a look at this drupal site ).

Drupal still has the easy-to-use WYSIWYG editor you mentioned and has different types of posts (for example, you can just post an image, post an article, post a blog post, etc. When you create them, you can post them on the homepage or just by their category (depending on how you set up the site, this is quite flexible).

So, if that's enough for you, it'll be much easier to manage!

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