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Laravel
Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. We’ve already laid the foundation for your next big idea — freeing you to create without sweating the small things.
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Directus
The flexible backend for all your projects 🐰 Turn your DB into a headless CMS, admin panels, or apps with a custom UI, instant APIs, auth & more.
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Grav
Modern, Crazy Fast, Ridiculously Easy and Amazingly Powerful Flat-File CMS powered by PHP, Markdown, Twig, and Symfony
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TYPO3
The TYPO3 Core - Enterprise Content Management System. Synchronized mirror of https://review.typo3.org/q/project:Packages/TYPO3.CMS
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mealie
Mealie is a self hosted recipe manager and meal planner with a RestAPI backend and a reactive frontend application built in Vue for a pleasant user experience for the whole family. Easily add recipes into your database by providing the url and mealie will automatically import the relevant data or add a family recipe with the UI editor
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best php-based cms/tech choice
Another usecase are Framework based CMS System. Beside Drupal, Typo3 using example Symfony components, still are not Full Stack Symfony and don't use Symfony based folder structure and are so very different then using Symfony Full Stack based CMS. In this area other CMS like Sulu, Bolt, .. are placed which do not hide Symfony Full Stack and are more for the web applications which are not typical just a Website but has application based component in it which can be build with the Symfony components and ecosystem. This CMS are also mostly more version control friendly as most configurations are inside Code and not inside Database and the CMS admin concentrate on Content Management and configure the System itself. Another CMS which is more and more migrating Full Stack Symfony is Contao CMS, which definitly should not be forgotten.
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Would my site run faster if I abandoned Wordpress and 'rewrote it from scratch'?
If you're familiar with Symfony, you could also check out Contao. I never really used it, though, because it's a bit too complex for me. But in theory, you can use most libraries for Symfony there.
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Content Management Systems for Freelancers
Maybe you have a look at CMS Conato: https://contao.org/
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Basic Contao repo stats
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contao/contao is an open source project licensed under GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 or later which is an OSI approved license.
Contao is marked as "self-hosted". This means that it can be used as a standalone application on its own.
The primary programming language of Contao is PHP.
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