Content management system
A CMS lets editors maintain digital content. Content structure, drafts and publication are configured for the needs of the website or application.
What is a content management system?
A content management system, or CMS, is software for creating, organising, editing and publishing digital content. Pages, news items and help articles are typical examples. Editors work with content fields and media; the technical implementation determines how these become a website or application.
A fictional engineering office plans a servicePage content type with title, introduction and service description. German and Turkish versions belong to the same service. When the German source changes, the planned workflow should flag the Turkish version for review rather than automatically treating it as confirmed current.
An editor first saves a draft. In this example, only a suitably authorised role may publish; the previous published version remains publicly visible until then. The content model, language relationships, preview and permissions need to be configured for the selected CMS. The label CMS alone does not establish which of these features are already available.
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Related terms
- Headless CMSA headless CMS manages content separately from presentation and supplies it through APIs. A website or app needs its own rendering logic.
- Digital asset managementDAM organises digital media files with metadata, versions and usage rules. An application can then find the appropriate approved file.
- Transactional inboxA transactional inbox uses durable message records to protect local processing against duplicate deliveries.
- Message acknowledgementA message acknowledgement tells the broker that a delivery has been received or processed according to the agreed rule.
- Retry jitterRetry jitter varies waiting times randomly to spread retries and reduce simultaneous requests from many clients.
- Test tenantA logically bounded customer context of a multitenant application, configured for testing.
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