# CMS

A CMS is the program you use to change text, images and pages on your website yourself, without writing code.

Source: https://ibenta.no/en/glossary/cms
Publisher: Ibenta (https://ibenta.no)
Updated: 2026-09-27

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WordPress is a well-known example. Wix and Squarespace are content management systems too, just bundled with hosting and templates in one subscription. What they have in common: you log in, write in something that looks like a text document, and press publish.

## What it means for you

A CMS makes you independent of a developer for small changes. New opening hours, a new employee or a summer offer should be something you can post yourself in five minutes.

But a CMS is also software that needs looking after. WordPress with lots of plugins needs regular updates, or the site gets slow or vulnerable. If you change your site twice a year, you may not need a CMS at all. We wrote more about that in [a separate post about CMSs](/en/blog/does-your-website-need-a-cms).

## What you can do today

Think back over the last twelve months and write down how many times you changed something on your website. If the answer is "almost never", a simple, fast site is often a better choice than a heavy CMS. If the answer is "every week", you should have a CMS you actually like using. Also check that you have your own login, and that you do not depend on someone else remembering the password.