The difference between a CMS and a blog engine?

Question

I am not sure if the following three are synonyms or if there is any difference between them or whether they have any hierarchical relationship.

But could you please explain to me how they are different / related?

• CMS
• Blogging mechanism
• Forum software such as phpBB

Answer 1

• A content management system is a system that allows any number of people to manage a wide range of content on a site, usually including articles, layout, advertisements, etc.

• The blogging mechanism is basically a subset of the CMS that has been specialized to allow usually a few people to easily publish short articles, usually providing comments to users. Some blogging mechanisms seem as flexible as most CMSs, and really differ from each other due to their stated intentions.

• The forum differs from the other two in that it allows many people to participate in discussions on the topic. stackoverflow.com can be described as a forum, although it was mutated by allowing users to reorder responses and make a "starting" thread.

Answer 2

Content Management System (CMS) is a general-purpose system that allows registered authors to upload and manage all types of content - text articles, images, videos, audio files, etc.

CMS will also allow site administrators to determine exactly what each page looks like: layout, placement of navigation, advertisements, etc. Administrators will also control who is allowed access to the system. The authors in this case will be people within the organization, not the public who visit the site.

The newspaper website is a very good example of a CMS.

The blogging mechanism can be viewed as a type of CMS that has been adapted to simplify the creation of short (ish) articles with additional comments. There will usually be only one author on a blog, although this is not always the case.

There will be (usually) very little control over the layout. Having said that some blogging mechanisms will allow you to control more than others, and may be indistinguishable from content management systems.

A forum is a place where users can post articles, etc., and other users post answers to them. Thus, it can be considered as a specialized type of CMS.

Answer 3

A Content Management System (CMS) is a set of procedures used to control the flow of work in a collaboration environment.

A blog (short for "weblog") 1 is a type of website typically maintained by a person with regular comments, event descriptions, or other materials such as graphics or videos.

Answer 4

I understand that a significant difference is in the presentation of managed content.

• A blog is a weblog that presents and manages content in a chronological and tag-oriented manner, providing navigation over time periods, categories, and tags.

• A content management system typically manages content in a structured way, presenting a predefined and modifiable structure of pages, only parts of which (for example, a news page) are chronological.

With blog engines such as Wordpress, which have more and more typical CMS features, and CMS engines with Blog features, other differences are becoming less and less important.

Answer 5

Both blogs and forums are each (separately) CMS, as they manage content. When you publish an article on a blog or thread in a forum, you are not tasked with managing the layout and other details separately from the content.