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ProcessWire is a free, open-source content management system (CMS) and web application framework designed to provide developers and content editors with a flexible, scalable, and user-friendly platform. Built on PHP and utilizing a jQuery-inspired API, ProcessWire offers a seamless experience for managing content across websites of varying sizes and complexities. Its architecture emphasizes simplicity without compromising on power, making it suitable for both small projects and large-scale applications. Key Features and Functionality: - Custom Fields: Every field in ProcessWire is customizable, allowing users to define and edit an unlimited number of field types to suit specific content needs. - Hierarchical Structure: Pages are organized in a tree-based model, providing a clear and logical structure that mirrors a file system, facilitating easy navigation and management. - Role-Based Access Control: A flexible access control system enables precise management of user permissions, ensuring secure and appropriate access to content. - Robust API: The intuitive API simplifies content querying, manipulation, and rendering, streamlining the development process and enhancing productivity. - Modular System: ProcessWire's architecture supports a wide range of plugin modules, allowing for extensive customization and functionality expansion. - Multi-language Support: Built-in multilingual features, including support for multi-language fields and URLs, make it ideal for creating websites that cater to diverse audiences. - Front-End Editing: Users can edit content directly on the front-end of the website, providing a more intuitive and efficient editing experience. - Image Management: Comprehensive image manipulation functions, such as resizing, cropping, rotating, and defining focus areas, are available directly within the admin interface. Primary Value and Solutions Provided: ProcessWire addresses the need for a CMS that offers both developers and content editors a high degree of flexibility and control. For developers, the system's robust API and modular architecture facilitate the creation of custom content types and complex data structures without unnecessary constraints. Content editors benefit from an intuitive interface and features like front-end editing and drag-and-drop image uploads, which streamline the content management process. Additionally, ProcessWire's emphasis on security, scalability, and performance ensures that websites remain stable and responsive as they grow, making it a reliable choice for projects of any size.

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Josh S.

Director of Marketing

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/1/2019

"Streamlined and Completely Custom CMS for the Beginner Developer"

5/5

What do you like best about ProcessWire?

The use of custom fields to build your own CMS from the ground up is unparalleled. Coming from Wordpress, all I knew was how to navigate the restrictions of very limited fieldtypes and try to force those to work for my e-commerce, blogs, non-profit webpages, and other web design projects. Also, I enjoy how seamlessly Processwire's API can be used to turn all of your custom fields into content on the front-end with just a single line of code. Awesome documentation and tech support from the founder himself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ProcessWire?

There is not much to dislike, as most of the problems I come across are user errors or because of my lack of programming knowledge. Because it's open-source, there is always a new solution to your problem. My biggest dislike is the lack of pre-built modules for some basic functions, although this is always growing. Payment processing, emailing, and pricing tables are a few that are just working their way onto the PW scene. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering ProcessWire:

If you know just a little bit of PHP, you'll be flying through web dev with ProcessWire. Veteran developers will find this as a great framework for websites, large and small. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ProcessWire solving and how is that benefiting you?

There wasn't a solid alternative to Wordpress for totally remodeling our non-profit websites so this is the #1 solution. Benefits would be customization and flexibility. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Noël B.

Senior Full-Stack Developer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/7/2019

"An easy to learn, very flexible CMS / CMF"

4.5/5

What do you like best about ProcessWire?

ProcessWire has an extremely easy to learn API and is very flexible. It’s the single best CMS / CMF I found. Each ProcessWire website is tailor made and only contains exactly what you need. It’s not an of the shelf use just install a template CMS but a great starting point for developers looking to build custom sites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ProcessWire?

There are no automated tests. I wish it would have a more solid approach to handling data models (like getters and setters) as well as better staging mechanism. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering ProcessWire:

Go read what poeple who are actually use the system write about it – most praise it very much. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ProcessWire solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use it for multiple custom platforms, ranging from one off event websites to larger sites that are the backbone of our world-wide operation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Doug M.

Owner / Operator

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/17/2019

"Great for developers (I assume), pretty bad for everyone else"

1/5

What do you like best about ProcessWire?

It seems like a very flexible platform for web development, from the perspective of a development team. It has endlessly configurable modules that can act on a per-page basis or globally, or a selected set of pages. What it lacks in polish and usability from a consumer standpoint, it almost makes up in its configurability and flexibility. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ProcessWire?

Editing a site on ProcessWire from the perspective of a regular business user is near-impossible. Despite a development team's best efforts to properly label modules, and document how pages are set up, it's still a confusing mess when you compare it to some of the modern web development platforms like Squarespace or WordPress, both of which still offer the level of flexibility that most business users need, without the hopeless labyrinth that ProcessWire calls navigation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering ProcessWire:

Consider something like WordPress, Demandware, Shopify, Squarespace. Heck, built a static HTML and CSS site and edit the HTML files directly, it would probably be easier than navigating ProcessWire. Honestly it's needlessly confusing and doesn't offer any appreciable benefits over other modern platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ProcessWire solving and how is that benefiting you?

I assume the business problem one would attempt to solve with ProcessWire is to create a completely custom website, with flexible modules that can be used across the site. In terms of handing this off to a business team, though, there are little benefits. There's no balance of flexibility of the platform for developers and usability of the editors for clients. It places the responsibility of maintenance and content updates squarely on more technically savvy users, and that's a big problem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.