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Aktheon's avatar

what's the best WordPress equivalent for Laravel?

i want some CMS with admin panel so managerscan easily create and edit pages and edit SEO tags and do some other managing things, meanwhile i'm also looking for CMS that lets you write code to create some non-CMS features.

Is there any all-in-one CMS that has advantage over other Laravel CMS's? Can you name your fav CMS for Laravel? (free CMS prefered)

I've found:

OctoberCRM
PyroCRM
Backpack
Lavalite
laravel-admin

are they good?

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fylzero's avatar

Voyager and Nova are more like admin panels... never thought of those exactly as CMS platforms. I didn't know about Voyager frontend... I have to play with that.

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Snapey's avatar

comparing to wordpress is a bad start since none of these will ever have the ecosystem of plugins and themes available to wordpress. Make sure you understand that before you start.

Aktheon's avatar

i want something easy to start and that has lot of opportunities to realise later

Aktheon's avatar

what's the difference between CMS, admin panel and CRUD generators?

thewebartisan7's avatar

I think that it's hard to say what is differece, because a CMS have also an admin panel, and sometime CRUD, an admin panel could have a CMS and also a CRUD, and CRUD should have an admin panel and can be used as CMS.

  • CMS = usually a full application for manage content

  • CRUD = generators with UI or without UI to create Create-Read-Update-Delete scaffolds that manage a database

  • Admin panel = basic skeleton with several things to build something (a CMS or CRUD, or anything else)

I hope that I explain myself :)

If you want something that have a lot of opportunities without coding too much, then check https://statamic.com/

It's a good choice for build quickly and easy as with Wordpress

fylzero's avatar

An admin panel helps you build/manage an app. A CMS helps you run a blog or manage website content. A crud manager is exactly that, helps you create read update and delete data. Different concepts.

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