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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Progress Sitefinity

Progress Software Corporation is an American company that develops software for creating and deploying business applications. Their vision is to propel business forward in a technology-driven world.

Sitefinity CMS is a content management system (CMS) that you use to create, store, manage, and present content on your website.

Sitefinity is proprietary software and is not available for Linux. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives to Sitefinity.


1. Drupal

Drupal is a free and open-source platform and content management system written in PHP for building dynamic web sites offering a broad range of features and services including user administration, publishing workflow, discussion capabilities, news aggregation, metadata functionalities using controlled vocabularies and XML publishing for content sharing purposes.

Equipped with a powerful blend of features and configurability, Drupal can support a diverse range of web projects ranging from personal weblogs to large community-driven sites.

Drupal


2. Joomla

Joomla is an award-winning free content management system (CMS), which enables people to build Web sites and powerful online applications.

The system includes features such as page caching to improve performance, printable versions of pages, RSS feeds, news flashes, blogs, polls, website searching, and language internationalization.

Joomla's control panel
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3. WordPress

WordPress is a high quality blog publishing application. The software was born out of a desire for an elegant, well-architectured personal publishing system built on PHP and MySQL.

WordPress is renowned for, and advertises, its “five-minute installation” process, to highlight the fact that the software is simple to install. At the same time, WordPress has a very impressive set of features.

WordPress
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There are a wealth of other high quality content management systems, which can be found in the section covering Web CMS in our Web Applications roundups.


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