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DanielB1990

Headless CMS

Hello everyone,

I'm looking for a self hosted headless CMS, that can be used to only manage data / content.

The website itself is already build with HTML, with 'example data' and I'm looking for a CMS that I could use to let the owner / maintainer make changes to it's content.

I've seen and read several posts/topics and comparison websites about headless cms'es but haven't found the right match yet, and am asking for you're help, as I may have missed something.

I've seen:

- https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/mk8vrx/looking_for_a_headless_cms_recommendation/guji4j6/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

- https://www.google.com/search?q=self+hosted+headless+cms ( it's results )

What I'm looking for is a CMS that makes it possible to manage at least text and images, that I can then include via REST API / GraphQL into a HTML build website, that'll use PHP for the dynamic parts.

https://getcockpit.com seems to match the needs, but I haven't gotten the hang of it and I'm unsure if it's the only match, so does anyone have any experience and/or recommendations on this?

Posted Jun 9, 2021, 1:19 PM UTC

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deane-barker•

Directus is open-source and self-hosted.

https://directus.io/

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Plenty_Ad2249•

Strapi is open-source, self-hosted and 100% Javascript.

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DevLooci•

This. Strapi is the answer.

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proyb2•

Mind sharing your experience with Strapi?

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DevLooci•

I'm sorry, but I cannot answer your question, because my experience with Strapi is resumed on 6 landing page websites (with the contact form or/and newsletter subscription) and 2 blog sites. I haven't done any e-commerce websites with Strapi.
The OP asked especially for "that can be used to only manage data/content." This was my goal to achieve, and with Strapi I had no problem with that.

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proyb2•

Mind sharing your experience with Strapi?

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Pristine_Confusion_8•

I can second Directus. My team just finished a long headless cms evaluation process, Directus ended up on top. We had one issue with hosting on IIS but the community was really quick to respond to our PR. Strapi was quite buggy and required a license for the more advanced user permission options. OrchardCore worked but is complicated. The documentation was terrible so we spent a significant amount of time digging into the source to figure out how it worked.

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geuntabuwono•

how about ghost and Gatsby?

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chloesellssaas•

Where is the requirement for self hosted coming from? If you're at all open to SaaS Zesty sounds like a great fit, but curious to know why self hosted.

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