Plone
django
joomla
.. and I’m sure lots of others, too 🙂

I personally like Plone, and use it for some things. I also use Wordpress, and I do manual content management (depending on the site).

NOTE: This answer was originally posted at StackOverflow.com by warren

This post is somewhat old, but I just found it today (12-19-2011).
The first CMS I found was Joomla, which I felt was great for a very short time. Dupral, evern shorter. Joomla is a click this, click that nightmare, and really doesnt offer much more than wordpress. Dupral is a clone, so I really see no point in using it.

Ultimately I used Wordpress for numerous sites, ranging from photo galleries to eCommerce sites. And the sites have performed well, for years.
Most clients are concerned with appearance, and the ones who do make their own changes have no problem using wordpress.

But now I am seeking something “better”? Something that allows more design flexability. Something I can do more with. Plus I have yet to find a Wordpress utility for making custom themes that actually look custom. Artisteer generates themes, but what can I say, they all look alike.

I recently tried Concrete5, and its ok, but still not a developers dream solution.
Next I plan to try several of the other CMSs listed on this page, with hopes to find something that will work for both me, and the end user. So if such a beast exists, I will capture it, and never look back. Then again, Id have to say, Wordpress will be around for a long time.

NOTE: This answer was originally posted at StackOverflow.com by Vee

The answer depends on the requirements. WordPress can be an excellent choice if your customer’s budget is very low

If they have some more budget and want something more, the take a look at the CMSes listed above. For ASP.NET I’ve used SiteCore and SiteFinity and have liked both because they allow a lot of flexibility over design and content. Plus, if I need to I can just get into the code and add my own user control to get something hard done.

NOTE: This answer was originally posted at StackOverflow.com by BeaverProj

I’ve had experience with Wordpress modifying your html and making things like media placement quite snarky. I’ve grown tired of A)Waiting to click through the Wordpress dashboard to get to the function I need; and B)Constantly modifying and reloading the site to make sure my content is displayed the way I coded it. I think Markus is correct that WP is great for blogs, bad for static or partially-static websites.

I will suggest that if the service you are trying to provide is user content creation, then perhaps you could have a Wordpress component to the site where the user content is shown, but your other work (the static stuff) is built on something else you are comfortable with.

NOTE: This answer was originally posted at StackOverflow.com by kevtrout

I think WordPress is perfectly suited for a CMS.

NOTE: This answer was originally posted at StackOverflow.com by Ryan Rodemoyer

I would go with Graffiti. You have full control over html, and it can be regular blogging platform and CMS.

NOTE: This answer was originally posted at StackOverflow.com by Hrvoje

Try a real CMS like Textpattern (simple and fast but powerful) or MODx (a nice “CMS platform” build for extensibility).
Wordpress is too limiting, writing your own is too much.

NOTE: This answer was originally posted at StackOverflow.com by Prasinos

I haven’t really tried it yet, but since you said your preferred platform was ASP.Net, you could always check out umbraco.

NOTE: This answer was originally posted at StackOverflow.com by andy

If you want to know more CMS, your can visit this website: CMS Matrix. You’ll found a a lot.

Wordpress does fit simple CMS requirement, simple usage, friendly user interface, and easy to extends. Be careful when choosing CMS, some of them may have too many feature and too complex for simple use.

I was once setup a typo3, and failed to teach user how to use it. Then I move to wordpress.

NOTE: This answer was originally posted at StackOverflow.com by Dennis Cheung

http://www.diigo.com/annotated/0b287e9ac349c7888628d19e50fc318a

After managing a Drupal site for a while, I settled into Plone 3 and never looked back.

We still have the Drupal site but it’s rarely used. So much more is achieved, achievable with Plone. Keywords ’rounded’ and ‘cohesive’ come to mind.

http://www.diigo.com/annotated/0b287e9ac349c7888628d19e50fc318a if you wish to see those keywords in context.

NOTE: This answer was originally posted at StackOverflow.com by Graham Perrin

If you can code and you’re at all open to learning a new language and framework, you should give Django some serious consideration.

Some of the time, you might find yourself reinventing the wheel, and yes, there is some learning overhead, but it’s a really serious contender for “The next big thing”.

It’s major feature (over similar frameworks) is the automatically-generated admin area, which, if your models are logical enough, can be client-ready without any intervention from you. Of course you’re more than able to customise things to help clients.

NOTE: This answer was originally posted at StackOverflow.com by Oli