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

This pattern reminds me of when content management systems replaced Flash in the early 2000s. — Jennifer Jones, Forbes.com, 28 Sep. 2026

ShinyHunters, perhaps best known for the Canvas breach at thousands of schools earlier this year, claims to have hacked CLOP’s site by exploiting a vulnerability in the Grav content management system that CLOP was using. — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 21 Sep. 2026

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

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

Word History

First Known Use

1994, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for content management system

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