Frog is an ideal CMS for users who are not worried to get down and soil with a small hands on development. While it doesn’t necessarily require that you learn PHP, it does help that you pay attention and expand your knowledge of the language if you want to make the most of the platform. Aside from that, Frog is straightforward and relatively simple to manage for the savvy user.
Features
Frog is pretty basic in terms of features. The most notable features are related to the flexibility of page design. Everything from the homepage to articles and beyond are methodical in hierarchical fashion. Pages are simple to go around and snippets of code can be added to grant added flexibility where needed. Frog offers a built-in file manager, but has no viable facility for managing metaphors. Luxuries such as this must be provided via plugins.
Ease of Use
The major selling point to the Frog CMS is simplicity. It offers built-in drag-and-drop functionality that makes content creation a breeze. This feature helps you save a lot of time and can really add a small fun to your project. Image resizing is also made simple, provided you have installed the free plugin that enables this functionality.
Content Management
Frog gives you a defaulting administrative back-end that includes two tabs: plugins and settings. The plugins tab offers a menu of all the plugins you have installed, counting the most recently installed version, and options that allow you to easily enable or disable it. The setting tab allows you to choose from two administrative themes, which Frog considers layouts, 20 different language options, an administrative site title, and various defaulting options. If your website is configured to receive comments, a comments tab will be automatically added to your administrative back-end.
Wellbeing
Frog does not offer a disorder of the art wellbeing system. In fact, the only wellbeing features built into the software are granular privileges. Though, this is a fantastic wellbeing to have. The permission system allows you to make groups, assign users and set up privileges for different users from the menu in the administrative panel. This makes it simple for a user to delegate work regardless of their experience or the technical aspects involved.
Community Support
Frog is an open-source CMS, so the only support you get for the software is provided by the community. There is help online in the public forum where both developers and users hangout. Unfortunately, nothing is guaranteed here as community support can be less than desirable depending on the situation. Right in this area now, the lack of support is the largest knock on the Frog CMS, but hopefully this changes as the project progresses and the community grows.
Final Thoughts
Frog isn’t necessarily the complete CMS that will meet all of your desires, but it is serviceable for many of them. The software is small, lightweight and enforces excellent design and development practices. While it is not the solution for everyone, it makes a fine choice for the niche market of developers who need to build a content rich site for themselves, or clients.
