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Modernizing Enterprise CMS Using Pimcore

By : Daniele Fontani, Marco Guiducci, Francesco Minà
Book Image

Modernizing Enterprise CMS Using Pimcore

By: Daniele Fontani, Marco Guiducci, Francesco Minà

Overview of this book

Used by over eighty thousand companies worldwide, Pimcore is the leading open source enterprise-level content management system (CMS) solution. It is an impressive alternative to conventional CMSes and is ideal for creating e-commerce and complex enterprise websites. This book helps developers working with standard CMSes such as WordPress and Drupal to use their knowledge of CMSes to learn Pimcore CMS in a practical way. You'll start by learning what Pimcore is and explore its various services such as PIM, MDM, and DAM. The book then shows you various techniques for developing custom websites in Pimcore based on the scale of your organization. You'll learn how to use Pimcore to improve the digital transformation of a company by implementing enterprise Pimcore features. As you advance, you'll discover Pimcore's capabilities and features that make it a faster and more secure alternative to traditional CMSes. As well as demonstrating practical use cases, Modernizing Enterprise CMS Using Pimcore can help you understand the benefits of using Pimcore as a CMS solution, sharing best practices and proven techniques for designing professional Pimcore sites. By the end of this book, you'll be a trained Pimcore developer, able to create complex websites, and be well-versed in Pimcore's enterprise features such as MDM, PIM, and DAM.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Differences between Pimcore and WordPress

We have seen how to create a blog with Pimcore. However, some may wonder whether making a blog using Pimcore is the right choice. There are many content management systems (CMSes) that already do this job—WordPress, above all.

We mentioned WordPress because, for those who don't know of it yet, this is a powerful open source software solution that you can use easily and freely to create blogs. It is certainly the most popular CMS, due to its ease of installation and configuration. Almost all website-hosting solutions offer the option of having WordPress pre-installed in your domain. Even the use of it does not require any special knowledge—it is very intuitive and comes with a simple and effective administration page. It is also possible to extend its functionality through the installation of plugins, and for the frontend, it is possible to download and install thousands of graphic themes with nothing more than a click...