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CMS (other engines)

«WordPress isn't for everyone. Sometimes the engine was forced on you, sometimes you chose it deliberately. And there you are, sitting with Joomla or Grav, while every help article on the internet is about something else.

This section is for those who work with CMSes other than WordPress. A CMS is a content management system: it stores content and assembles pages. We write about Joomla, Grav, Drupal, flat-file engines (CMSes without a database, where all content lives in files), builders like Weebly, and MODX.

The section is small but self-contained. There is very little decent Russian-language material on these engines. Documentation is often English-only, and forums have been abandoned since the previous decade. We fill that gap with hands-on, task-focused content.

What's inside. Installing an engine from scratch and configuring it for a real project. Restoring a website from backup when everything has crashed and panic is setting in. Comparisons: which engine to choose for a blog, a landing page, a catalogue. Roundups like