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This really hits home for me, because I'd love to use a CMS, but I just haven't found that is: (a) easy to use (b) easy to customize.

Just to single out a shortcomings I've recently found: multiple authors with multiple languages, defining short and long version of bio/tagline. The tagline is displayed at the article, which may be tagged with multiple contributors with different roles (author, translator, reviewer), while the author page displays the long version.

I've spent days to figure out what plugin/theme combination (Wordpress or Drupal) would enable me this single feature, and I couldn't figure it out.

Yesterday evening I gave up, and now I have <200 lines of code in Dart (using markdown and mustache), generating static pages that were annotated with metadata, doing just that. To be honest, I'd trade it any time for a decent CMS, I just can't find any.