X3 CMS

Yea! I'm a web developer so I wrote my own Content Management System, X3 CMS, it was born in 2004 as a personal project. Now many years after is an amazing tool that can compete with the best. Here you can read an (incomplete) comparison with famous solutions.
The main criticism is that there are no free plugins, only fews, very basic. I wrote hundred of plugins for my clients. To write plugins is my work, I pay my bills with that, so I can't give them for free. I'm sorry.

Another CMS!

Yes, I know, there are a lot of alternatives. It started as a simple exercise, I learned a lot with it. Then evolved as a global solution and today is my daily work.

Should you consider it?

If you are a developer or a web agency probably yes. X3 CMS is extremely versatile:

X3 CMS can be a simple website or
a powerful starting point for a complex web application

Advantages

• Flat learning curve: as developer you need to know the minimum PHP, OOP, MVC logic, SQL, Javascript and CSS.
  If you read the help online (Developer guide) you will be surprised to discover how simple is to develop with X3 CMS.
• Complete: almost all your needs are already in, multi language, multi area, themes, templates and so on.
• Versatile: if something is not included you can easily add it, as plugins, libraries, helpers.
• Fast: development times are drastically reduced compared to the adoption of a Framework, you do not have to build the whole car around the engine but only the bodywork.

Disavantages

After we clarified that X3 CMS is not suitable for copy&paste users, yes, I have to be honest, there are also some cons:

• Small community: I don't know if you really need a large community, it is so simple. Anyway, I'm here.
• No market (at the moment) for plug & play solutions.