Topic: Popular Django CMS
Articles around the idea of how you could create a CMS app "for the people" along the lines of and competitive with PHP apps such as Joomla or WordPress using Django.
A Plugin System for Django?
Posted in Django
on November 6th, 2010 by
Stephen DeGrace
Topics:
Popular Django CMS
If you're designing a corporate intranet, news website, or dating service, platforms like Django and Rails have PHP beat. They allow for much cleaner design by nature, and hence they scale better, at least conceptually. Facebook, written in PHP, is the big exception, but we as constantly see Facebook struggling to keep up with its volume of traffic, and as we see various security holes come to light in the news, it's apparent that this may be a misfortune for Facebook rather than an advantage for PHP. Of course, Java has a commanding domination of the corporate market, for reasons which are far from obvious. But PHP has a powerful domination in the world of prepackaged web applications, like CMS's such as Joomla, blogs such as Wordpress and forums such as phpBB. I don't think this is entirely due to the fact that PHP is simply so widely supported - I think PHP actually has some significant advantages which make it better for these kinds of applications, and I would like to explore why Django specifically is inherently deficient in this area and how those deficiencies might be circumvented.