I’ve been using October CMS for quite some time now, and I just want to say how much I truly appreciate the platform.
It’s clean, developer-friendly, and offers a refreshing approach compared to many bloated CMS platforms out there.
I especially enjoy how it builds on Laravel while still providing a structured CMS environment with flexibility and performance.
However, as someone who’s been in the web development space for years, I can’t help but notice that October CMS remains relatively unknown or underrepresented in many developer discussions — especially compared to other platforms like WordPress, Shopify or Wix.
So my question is:
Why do you think October CMS hasn’t reached the same level of visibility or popularity as some of these other CMS platforms?
Is this a conscious decision to stay focused on a niche, or are there resource limitations on marketing, outreach, and community promotion?
Do you have any plans for increasing visibility through official tutorials, content creation, or partnerships?
I’m asking this out of genuine interest and support. I believe October CMS deserves more attention, and I’m curious what could help make that happen — both from your side and from us, the community.
Thanks for the kind words and for taking the time to share your thoughts.
October CMS sits in a unique space. It is not quite a framework, but not a traditional CMS either. Some developers instantly see the benefits and enjoy the control it offers, while others find it does not fit how they like to work. That mix gives the community its character and attracts people who value flexibility and craftsmanship.
For many years October was open source, and that period helped build a strong community and a lot of goodwill. After moving to a paid model, the user base naturally shifted toward professional developers and agencies who rely on it for client work. They are often less vocal online but continue to be highly engaged in their projects.
If you or anyone else in the community would like to contribute articles, tutorials, videos, or examples of projects built with October CMS, we would love to feature them. Community-driven promotion has always been the most authentic way to show what October can do. We are planning to put more effort into outreach, improving documentation and producing more tutorials.
Thanks again for your support and for helping keep the community active.
I’m excited to hear that you’re planning to strengthen the documentation and produce more learning resources. I truly believe that could make a big difference in helping more developers discover the platform.
Thanks again for all your work — and for continuing to engage with the community so openly!
As a person that has dabbled in web development off and on over the years since the Macromedia Dreamweaver days I instantly saw the value in October.
I think I can offer some light on the topic Ridha82 brings up.
October CMS is by not of its own fault a platform for a raw developer. As a casual developer like my self can find it very difficult to get up to speed.
Whereas the documentation seems complete there are not enough examples to put the context of what you read into action. I have struggle nearly a year off and on building what I need. I feel the time could have been cut in half if there were more up to date videos. Possibly a basic plugin that shows how to put stuff together. I have only recently figured out I could use the Builder Plugin to reverse engineer another plug in to slowly craft it into what I need. This has propelled me a lot further here recently. Also there seems to be a huge lag in time getting the info to the public. I totally get it, because everyone is busy working on the product, the docs and other stuff is considered secondary.
Another thing I see wrong which I have already voiced my concern on the matter is developers that create plugins or Themes you pay for in the marketplace and utilize the framework offering some sort of support. Yet never answer any questions, basically showing that they have moved on. Yet the problem is they are still capitalizing on the orginal work. They are basically selling you something that as a consumer should be a working product and be maintained within reason. That puts a bad taste in a consumers mouth when trying to put something together quickly that may not have the ability to code. Yet left in the dark because something either is not working or you have a question.
This is where other CMS platforms shine like Wordpress, DotnetNuke, Shopify and others, because they have a huge library of supported solutions out there.
So I have installed this from a recommendation from someone else. Mainly to figure out how to post data to the Scoreboard control. However the Scoreboard in that plug in doesn’t connect to any of the data in the database. Its nothing more that static values and the documentation on October provides no information on how to achieve this… I was left with not knowing if I could inject a SQL query to get the values I wanted or if I have to build a view in SQL to get the values. This is the stuff im talking about where a person that doesn’t develop all the time struggles to get up to speed. I know enough to be dangerous, but thats from years of breaking stuff.
