30 CMS Signatures on CM Field Guide

May 21, 2012 fieldguide

Last Friday Jeroen Reijn from Hippo submitted the 30th CMS signature for the CM Field Guide project. If this is your first time hearing of CM Field Guide, it is a community project to share clues for telling what CMS a website is running. For more background, here is my CM Field Guide announcement blog post. Here is the list so far:

  1. Adobe CQ
  2. Concrete5
  3. DemandWare
  4. dotCMS
  5. DotNetNuke
  6. Drupal
  7. Ektron
  8. Elcom CMS
  9. EPiServer
  10. ExpressionEngine
  11. eZ Publish
  12. Hannon Hill Cascade Server
  13. Hippo CMS
  14. iApps
  15. Ingeniux
  16. Joomla!
  17. Kentico
  18. Liferay
  19. Magnolia
  20. ModX
  21. Octopress
  22. OpenText (RedDot)
  23. Plone
  24. SharePoint
  25. SilverStripe
  26. Sitecore
  27. Tridion
  28. Umbraco
  29. Websphere Commerce
  30. WordPress

Other contributors include Adriaan Bloem (@adriaanbloem), Steven Brent (@stevenbrent), Timothy Davis (@timothydavis), Lee Roberson (@lroberson), Robb Winkle (@robbwinkle), Wes Winham (@weswinham) and of course, the guy who started it all, Deane Barker (@gadgetopia). If you know of any secrets for sniffing a CMS, let me know and I will add it and create you an account so you can use the www.cmfieldguide.com website. If you like to code Python and Django, you can code it yourself and submit a pull request on github.

  • Nick

    Have you seen the browser add-on http://wappalyzer.com/

    It also does js/css frameworks, analytics, and more.

    • seth

      Thanks Nick. I use Wappalyzer but it only knows about a couple of CMSs. What makes this initiative interesting to me is the collaboration aspect. I like sharing secrets and turning them into working code.

  • http://www.kentico.com Martin Hejtmanek

    Hi, the check for Kentico CMS isn’t accurate, especially for newer versions. It checks for /CMSPages/GetCSS.aspx but if CSS minification or compression is enabled on newer versions, the link would use a handler /CMSPages/GetResource.ashx. GetCSS is there now only for backward compatibility but will be eventually removed. More appropriate and cross-version check would be that /CMSPages/logon.aspx page exists.

    MartinH, Kentico CTO

    • seth

      Thanks Martin!

      • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003406425749 Arfat

        Do you have any other modules to share?I’m just evanautilg Kentico and would love some real world examples from a fellow developer!I’m used to Sitefinity but have decided to jump ship for numerous reasons!

        • http://www.sethgottlieb.com Seth Gottlieb

          We don’t have the reporting capability to list sites that are running on particular platform yet. However, the Customers page on the Kentico site is pretty good: http://www.kentico.com/Customers

          They also have a decent trial program.