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Hello! What content management system (CMS) tool(s) would you all recommend that would meet most if not all of the following criteria? - ability to showcase photos, long narratives, videos, and audio in an archive (and ability to search for those items) - non-tech client needs to be able to easily add pages to the website and media to galleries via a dashboard - ability to password-protect certain pages - ability to optionally include blogging functionality alongside of the archive - ability to optionally include e-commerce features alongside of the archive (ie. Big Cartel or Shopify integration) - ability to use any UI framework I want (ie. Bootstrap) - ability to scale website easily *Tools I've considered:* - *WordPress: *I'm worried about WordPress being too bloated of a CMS and possibly being too cumbersome to scale well. But I am aware that gallery and e-commerce plugins could help with my needs and that the dashboard can be very user-friendly for a non-tech client. - *Omeka:* While great for creating digital archives, I'm worried that Omeka's system may be confusing for a non-tech/non-archivist user. I also don't know of a seamless way to incorporate blogging or e-commerce functionality into Omeka either. In an ideal world, I'd like a lightweight CMS that makes it easy for a client to add and organize content (pages, blog posts, photos, video, audio) to a preset theme and choose which pages to password-protect. On the backend, the CMS should allow me to develop using modern web technologies (ie. preferably Laravel, Bootstrap, Webpack, etc). Thank you for any help! Olivia -- *Olivia Dorsey Peacock, MSIS* *Genealogist + Creative Technologist *(I design + code) Digital Black History <http://digitalblackhistory.com/> | ohpeacock.github.io