Heya Olivia, Mukurtu [0] meets some of these (It has it's origins from Drupal) and with "some assembly" possibly all of them. I recommend it because it -by design- was built for your targeted audience. More comments interleaved. On 11/17/19 9:08 PM, Olivia D wrote: > 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 It can do all of the above. > - ability to optionally include e-commerce features alongside of the > archive (ie. Big Cartel or Shopify integration) Not sure it can do this out of the box. > - ability to use any UI framework I want (ie. Bootstrap) > - ability to scale website easily This will depend on your infrastructure but it can with upfront planning. We have a Reclaim hosted version of the software at the URI below https://activism.docnow.io/ Cheers, ./fxk > > *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 > [0] https://mukurtu.org/about/