Open Source Content Management Systems: A Canvass

The ubiquity of Omni-dimensional open source platforms imbued from the diversely pervasive market web requirements has lured the researchers to focus their concentration to develop an adaptable, evolvable and robust mechanism which could grapple lucratively with more-or-less all web development prerequisites. Content Management Systems (CMSs), the wide-ranging software suites, comprehensively confront the long sustaining relevant challenges and reflect a new wave in the era of web development and maintenance outside the realm of traditional stand alone tools. In recent times, a substantial number of open source content management systems (CMSs) have been proposed which have attracted a significant proportion of developers. WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal are the famous inclusions of this category. A sizeable number of analytical discussions, comparative analysis and closed surveys of existing CMSs have been made resulting in the evolution of a root level pivotal query. i.e., "How to choose an optimal Content Management system for multi-dimensional scenarios". This paper provides a thorough comparative analysis of available CMSs based on their documentation, Themes, Plugins, setups, Administration, Flexibility and Ease of Customization, Security, Scalability and the other relative aspects, and , suggests an explicit way to choose best Open Source Context Management System in multiple scenarios.