October CMS, done right the first time.

Custom builds, plugin work, and migrations off WordPress or Drupal, on a CMS that is really a Laravel application with an admin attached.

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Since 2019, and 14+ years building production software.

Featured on the October CMS blog: Why We Switched to October CMS and Never Looked Back

A CMS that does not fight you in year two.

October CMS is built on Laravel, which is the whole argument. You get a content platform your team can use, sitting on a framework that will do whatever you need next, rather than a CMS you eventually work around.

The difference shows up when the requirement arrives that nobody planned for. On a plugin-driven platform that is a search for something that nearly fits. Here it is a class you write.

Laravel underneath

Modern PHP and clean architecture, not a decade of backward compatibility.

Plugins that survive updates

Extend without patching core, so an upgrade is not a rebuild.

An admin staff will use

Clean enough that non-technical people edit content without being trained twice.

Customizations that hold

Security patches and updates that do not undo the work you paid for.

Four kinds of October CMS work.

Custom development

New builds designed around your workflows rather than around a template. Ecommerce, member portals, internal tools, and the things that do not have a category yet.

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Platform migration

Moving off WordPress, Drupal, or something older. Content, URLs and search equity preserved, which is most of the work and all of the risk.

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Plugin development

Custom plugins that extend what the platform does.

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Managed hosting and care

October CMS hosting, patching, backups and monitoring on a flat monthly plan, with a person who knows your site.

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Building new or moving across, the shape is the same.

Discovery

We map your content structure, workflows and integrations. If you are migrating, we audit what is there before anything moves.

Architecture

Information architecture, plugin structure and admin workflow decided before code, because that is what is expensive to change later.

Development

Built in tested increments with regular demos. Content migration runs in parallel rather than as a panic at the end.

Launch

We deploy, train your team, and leave documentation behind. Ongoing care is there if you want it.

Common questions.

October CMS is built on Laravel, a modern application framework, rather than on two decades of backward compatibility. In practice that means custom functionality is written rather than assembled from plugins, updates do not routinely break customizations, and the admin is clean enough that staff use it without being retrained.

Yes, and it is a large share of the October CMS work we do. Content, URL structure and search equity all carry across. The redirects and the URL map are the part that determines whether a migration costs you traffic, so that is where the care goes.

Every build is scoped in a written plan with a fixed estimate before work starts, so the number reflects what the application has to do. A migration is priced on what is being moved rather than on a page count. If you want the number before committing, an Operations Audit gives you a ranked scope with a budget range against each item, credited toward the build.

Yes. If we build the site, a Managed Website runs it: hosting, patching, backups and monitoring on one monthly plan, from $495/month with the build included. If someone else built it, we host and maintain it on Site Care, a separate plan for sites we did not build, from $95/month. It is the same platform we build on, run by the people who built it. Site Care →

Simple sites run four to eight weeks. Applications with real logic behind them run two to four months. Migrations depend almost entirely on how clean the content is in the system you are leaving, which is what discovery is for.

It is our default platform, we have been an official partner since 2019, and the Laravel foundation is the reason. Even in the worst case, what you own is a Laravel application with a content layer, which is a far more portable position than a proprietary platform or a heavily plugged-in CMS.

Building on October, or trying to get off something else?

Tell us what you have and what it needs to do. We will tell you what we would build and what it costs.

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