Cushy CMS

[GGMcGee]

Recently came across what I think is a cool, free CMS.

http://www.cushycms.com (http://www.cushycms.com/)

First one I've used and it's working nicely. Easy to use, which is what the clients with no website creation knowledge want.

For those who use WordPress (which is what I've gathered as being most the most popular), how does CushyCMS compare?

[wiifanatic]

Wordpres beats CushyCMS.

By a lot!

[ajcates]

Dude, if I can't install it on my own server, it is useless to me. How am I supposed to open it up a fiddle with the code inside eventually breaking the thing?

[simplistik]

Well looks like wordpress and cushy are two separate things in terms of the type of cms it is. i can see cushy being far more superior in terms of client control and only allowing the client to edit exactly what you want them to be able to edit, at a mass level. so you have one cms that controls 100 sites from one location, it's a great idea IMO. but in terms of flexibility, manipulation and being more on the developer end of things, wordpress is "better".

one thing i can tell that i don't like about the way cushy handles it's editable areas is that you have to assign a cushycms class. a more appropriate way may have been to use comment codes around your element like


<!--[cushystart]-->
<p>this would be editable</p>
<p>and so would this, yay</p>
<!--[cushyend]-->

so you don't have to make extra divs that serve no other purpose but to make it editable through cushy

[FlashPlaya]

wordpress is better.. but still kinda nice..

[nortago]

Apples and oranges really - I use wordpress in a lot of my stuff - but for some basic sites wordpress can be a bit confusing for the computer illiterate (don't ask, I just seem to attract difficult clients) - so I have used cushy before to see what it was like, then I found editease (http://code.google.com/p/editease), which is essentially a plug and play (Ie you add a "ee-word" class into the divs you want edited)... it's still a little buggy, but for changing the odd bit of text, it works well..

[Patch^]

great concept, doesn't really compare to wordpress at the moment. Give it time and might do. It's good for clients though.

Just submitted to Digg :-)

[padlock12]

Cool CMS but it needs more module...

[Jeds]

Drupal for me being a developer and all, great flexibility and speed, massive community

[Jeff Wheeler]

one thing i can tell that i don't like about the way cushy handles it's editable areas is that you have to assign a cushycms class. a more appropriate way may have been to use comment codes around your element like


<!--[cushystart]-->
<p>this would be editable</p>
<p>and so would this, yay</p>
<!--[cushyend]-->

so you don't have to make extra divs that serve no other purpose but to make it editable through cushy

Their idea (while stupid) actually makes much more sense to me. They’ve defined a clear DOM hook that can be entirely recreated, and it makes a lot of sense to edit as a whole. Using comments is ugly, and it doesn’t allow them to parse your HTML correctly, and you’ll end up with improper nesting, inevitably, at times.

Also, I can’t imagine a case when their method would require you to define a new div — multiple classes can be assigend to the same div, so the existing structure should be really easy to adopt by simply adding the class name.