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Technology proposal: WonderCMS

Robert on 8 February 2019, 6 years ago

Homepage: https://www.wondercms.com

Hello W3Techs!

WonderCMS is an extremely small and open source flat file CMS.

Runs on 5 files and a couple hundred lines of code. Doesn't require any setup or database. Completely free since 2008.

Here are some of the features and justification:

• WonderCMS is the only CMS listed next to WordPress on Microsoft Azure: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/try/app-service/web/?language=php.
• No configuration necessary, unzipping and uploading 5 files is the only requirement.
• WonderCMS was supported by CSS inventor Håkon Wium Lie.
• It's arguably one of the smallest CMS, running on only 5 files and less than 50KB's.
• It works on Apache, NGINX and IIS, which covers the majority of web servers used.
• It is one of the top rated light CMS on OpenSourceCMS: https://www.opensourcecms.com.
• WonderCMS is already added to Softaculous, the well known cPanel software installer: https://www.softaculous.com/apps/cms/WonderCMS and was also featured/reviewed on CMS Critic: https://www.cmscritic.com/wondercms-review/.
• WonderCMS is GDPR compliant, privacy focused and track-free.

Links:

• Official website -> https://www.wondercms.com

• Demo -> https://www.wondercms.com/demo

• Download -> https://www.wondercms.com/latest

• GitHub -> https://github.com/robiso/wondercms

• Release notes -> https://www.wondercms.com/whatsnew

Sam Soltano (site administrator) on 12 February 2019, 6 years ago

Thank you for that proposal. We will examine this system for inclusion in our surveys.

Robert on 30 January 2020, 5 years ago

Hi Sam.

Is there any feedback or update in regards to the survey/entry - it's almost been a full year since we last spoke (cheers to 2020).

Some additional helpful info:

WonderCMS has been growing steady and is celebrating 12 years. There have been over 500.000 downloads since 2008.

Regards,

Robert

Sam Soltano (site administrator) on 30 January 2020, 5 years ago

Hi Robert,

We could identity very few sites as running WonderCMS, but we keep looking.

Robert on 7 May 2020, 5 years ago

Hi Sam, thanks for replying.

A quick search for public source coded websites yields 200+ results just for the default theme WonderCMS is using, example below:

- https://publicwww.com/websites/blueBackground+whiteFont/ (this is only a small sample that indeed use the default thme).

Another way we ran a quick search for older versions which included the "Powered by WonderCMS" link was: - https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=%22powered+by+wondercms%22

We do know it's hard to nail down websites using WonderCMS, but our orientation towards privacy is probably the reason for this.

Based on the number of visitors and downloads, we believe it's safe to assume the number of WonderCMS websites are in the thousands.

Is there any way we can help you with narrowing down results?

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