content management system

noun

plural content management systems

: a software tool or integrated set of tools that is used to create, manage, and publish material (as for a website)

My morning catch-up done, it was time to check in on the … website. To do that, I use two Web-based apps—a content management system (CMS) and a story management tool.

—Dan Moren

For a few weeks now, our parent company has made AI tools available to editors within our content management system, or CMS, which we use to publish our online articles.

—Eric Snyder

—abbreviation CMS

Examples of content management system in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Technological Characteristics Although blogs are not necessarily built on content management systems (CMS), those CMSs have helped usher in the ease of use and availability of blogs, and websites with a blog component. —Jeremy Saks, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026

Its proponents and overseers represent a range of job roles, from librarians to content management systems specialists to knowledge managers by title. —Joe McKendrick, Forbes.com, 14 May 2026

But the company told Fortune the leak was a result of human error within its content management system. —Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2026

There are also content management systems that keep track of articles as they’re submitted, peer-reviewed, and revised to provide critical feedback to authors and further the scholarly publishing process. —IEEE Spectrum, 14 Sep. 2016

Word History

First Known Use

1994, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for content management system

• cryptosystem
• ecosystem
• intersystem
• multisystem
• photosystem
• subsystem