I understand there are much more efficient solutions for CMS, like WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, or Adobe Commerce, and other CM Systems out there who make building a blog site or managing website content and offering a workflow much easier. The thing is many of those sites being built on those platforms I have noticed (say on WordPress), they are not that good or offer any quality structure options, also they can get quite complex.
So, I was wondering does custom coded CMS has any demand? How much would you pay for it?
I perfectly understand that developing a CMS with pure code from scratch is quite difficult and takes a lot of time (possibly even more than a month), since I have coded my own CMS lately. But I am still curious, just conducting some small market research here.
Do you find that service of any value and what’s a reasonable price, you would spend for a decent, custom to your needs, CMS platform.
Decent meaning: You can update and edit certain sections of the website without code. Database to store data, User Authentication, Dashboard with website & page info, posts, views, likes, analytics and statistics, geographical user data. Blog-post editor, users board, settings. You can have schedule posts. etc.
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Ha, you are asking on the sub for the largest open source CMS in the world, I doubt you will have many positive responses.
However, I will say there is 100% a market for custom admin panels and backends, but only when they are powering custom front ends, such as mobile apps, spa’s etc. if you just need CMS functionality for standard marketing / business websites, a bespoke cms is going to be far less flexible, far more likely to stagnate, and cost far more than an ootb solution.
I would go as far as to say selling custom CMS to clients with basic needs is borderline unethical
There’s two basic use cases for a custom website CMS.
One is where the client is so large they can afford to have an in-house webdev team that will design, implement, run, and support an entirely custom solution.
The other is where the client is you and your project is so small you don’t need a standard CMS.
For everyone in between there’s WordPress for most use cases and more specialized CMS products for smaller or niche cases.
But no client should buy into a customized, boutique CMS that is essentially undocumented and lacking in community support. It would mean instant vendor-lock to the sole creator. It also generally means a lack of scalability and extensibility. It would be a disaster for most businesses.
If you don’t like the WordPress admin UX, it would be far easier to customize the admin UX than to invent a whole new WordPress.