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Dan Jones
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I'm looking for CMS recommendations, including possibly a headless CMS with a statically built site (I'm actually leaning in that direction).

In the past, I would normally just use , but with the latest , I'm honestly concerned about its future.

The project I'm working on is for my Church. It's not for a single congregation, though. It's a regional thing serving ten congregations across the South Houston, Texas region. Not a huge amount of traffic, but not inconsequential.

Here are some basic requirements. I need it to support multiple users, with role based access. I need some amount of extensibility, as I plan to build out more features over time, including notifications of new content being pushed out to various destinations (SMS, mobile push, etc.). I haven't discussed with the church leaders what the budget is, but I imagine minimizing costs would also be a need. Localization will also be a concern. Seven of the congregations are English-speaking, two are Spanish, and one is Mandarin. So being able to have some content available in all three languages would be beneficial.

Any customization will be built by me, so, a language I'm familiar with, or can reasonably easily learn would be good. So, PHP, go, or node are the best options.

The site will host a few different things. It will serve as a directory of resources for folks with various needs. It will also serve as a hub for announcements.

Right now, I'm looking at a Directus headless CMS, hosted probably on AWS or DigitalOcean, and probably an Eleventy generated site, probably hosted on Netlify or Vercel. But, I'm certainly not married to the idea. And I still haven't completely ruled out just using WordPress, or perhaps even ClassicPress.

It's been so long since I've set up a content-driven site (aside from my own personal sites, which just use hugo), that I'm not sure what the best options are nowadays. Suggestions for hosting are also appreciated.

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We are going to step up and recommend our favorite #OpenSourceCMS BackdropCMS.

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A few reasons why:

1) Our philosophy and structure:
https://backdropcms.org/philosophy

2) Almost 1000 released modules that add functionality and address specific use cases.
https://backdropcms.org/modules

3) Supportive community, includes active chat support via Zulip, forum site, and live weekly office hours (user to user support for free).
https://backdropcms.org/support

4) PHP