: CMS without templates Possible Duplicate: Which Content Management System (CMS)/Wiki should I use? I am looking for a CMS where I can layout the page from scratch using HTML/PHP/CSS

@Dunderdale272

Someone suggested WordPress - This is clearly not as clean as your example, but it's not all that worse, really. Here's the code:

<?php
$args = array(
'numberposts' => 5,
'offset' => 0,
'orderby' => 'post_date',
'order' => 'DESC',
'post_type' => 'post',
'post_status' => 'publish',
);
$posts_array = get_posts( $args );
foreach( $posts_array as $post ): setup_postdata($post); ?>
<div class="articleTitle"><?php the_title(); ?></div>
<div class="articleBody"><?php the_content() ?></div>
<?php endforeach; ?>


It's readable to me, but my bias for working with WordPress is I've done most of my work in it. I've also worked with SilverStripe, drupal, and Joomla templates, and none are perfect, WordPress is pretty robust. The documentation is pretty good too. Your mileage will vary a great deal based on the specific requirements you have. All the CMSs out there have differing ways to look at things, and all require a learning curve.

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@Mendez628

You can put together a very simple CMS quickly with a PHP framework, most of the frameworks have some sort of "create a blog in 5 minutes" type of tutorial that should allow you to try several and pick the one that suits you best.

As far as the code you wrote above Wordpress does this, as well as others I'm sure. It also lets you change layouts of the data on a per category or per page basis. It is however, run from the theme folder.

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@Goswami781

You can always start with wordpress and very basic framework/boilerplate template meant for building your own. For example:


html5boiler plate for wordpress: wordpress.org/extend/themes/boilerplate another html5boiler plate for wordpress: github.com/zencoder/html5-boilerplate-for-wordpress Zurb Foundation for wordpress: 320press.com/wp-foundation/features/ Zurb Foundation for drupal: github.com/drewkennelly/foundation7

Or maybe you just want a PHP framework to play around with like FuelPHP or codeigniter or Yii

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