Compare Bolt CMS vs. October CMS

Bolt CMS is a lightweight CMS built with the Silex Microframework. It is well built and a great alternative for developers looking for a modern PHP system to replace WordPress, for example.

October CMS is a content management system built on the Laravel Framework. It's been in development since 2013 and is definitely part of a new generation of PHP of content management tools.

• Clean architecture built with Silex, very easy to learn
• Standard components for Forms and Database
• Clean purpose, not trying to solve every problem

• A new project with little legacy
• Built on a common MVC framework
• A functional marketplace

• Developer availability compared to WP
• Extensibility for multilingual, etc. depends on extensions
• Limited community size

• A limited number of adopters
• Built in AJAX framework might make decoupling difficult
• Site layout management features limited