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By that definition, PhpMyAdmin is a CMS.

Clearly, a CMS is something more, geared for arbitrary ”content management” instead of being a ”UI for a database” or an ”editor for web pages”.

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Except PhpMyAdmin is not meant for “content editors”. The point here is that a CMS shouldn’t be concerned with things like “themes”. Surely there’s a sweet spot somewhere.

What do you mean? Many CM systems allow things like custom per-article themes (common in news publishing systems) and multi-channel / multi-site publishing.

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