decent, ethical, simple CMS system?

please make recomendations and or opinions

[chewy]

my new wife is setting up a consulting practice and when she asked about doing a website I suggested a simple CMS system (which I thought was a decent company).

after 5 calls on technical non-support, I have decided to advise that she pulls the plug on this one, reverses the credit card charges and go with something else.

any suggestions?

-C

[rocknbil]

Many of you will probably laugh - but for simplicity, and even more complex things, Wordpress works great as a CMS (just follow the security recommendations!) We have deployed several sites entirely managed by WordPress by customizing the scripts and templates. Some of these sites don't even blog, there are no "posts", just pages.

For a little more advanced management, modX Revolution works out pretty well too, it's more of a "programmer's CMS" though. It allows you to use custom code as a "snippet" for tasks not handled by the interface, or would just be easier to implement as a small scriptlet. The basic resources (pages) are pretty straightforward, but there are about a million ways you can turn complex output into a simple set of resources.

Both of these are, of course, free.

[graeme_p]

Wolf CMS, if its a simple site. Its very simple to set up, has a good UI, and is reasonably flexible. Not good if you have untrusted authors/editors as anyone who can edit pages can drop arbitrary php into them, other than that its excellent.

For more advanced stuff I prefer a framework. I moved a site from Modx (old version, not revolution) to Django and found a lot of mistakes (because the database now enforces stuff like uniqueness and existence of fields).