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Standard CMS
Prefer a familiar CMS? We design, build, host and manage it — kept fast, secure and continuously updated.
Not every site needs to go headless. When your team wants a familiar, self-service platform, we design, build, host and manage it on the leading standard CMSs — with the same managed care as our headless builds.
Sentry's Managed CMS service designs, builds, hosts and continuously manages the content platform your team already knows — WordPress, Craft, Drupal and the other leading standard systems — keeping it fast, secure and patched without needing your attention.
What Standard CMS delivers
Secure & patched
Core, themes and plugins kept current — no stale, exploitable code.
Fast & SEO-ready
Tuned for speed and search, on reliable managed hosting.
Backups & uptime
Monitored, backed up and restorable — surprises engineered out.
Edits & support
A responsive team for the changes your in-house tools can't.
KPIs we move — measured, owned, reported
Every KPI is tied to a named owner and a target agreed up front — so this service is accountable to outcomes, not activity, for every stakeholder who consumes the value.
Capability Maturity — we walk you up the five levels
Operated at Level 4 · Quantitatively Managed — measured, predictable and owned. We track this rank and raise it over time. See the five levels →
Five platforms — matched to how you work
WordPress
Open source · most popularThe world's most-used CMS — a vast plugin ecosystem and familiar editing, designed, built, hardened and fully managed by us so it stays fast and secure.
Best for · Content-rich sites
Drupal
Open source · enterpriseSecure and powerful for complex content models, fine-grained permissions and multi-site estates — built and managed to enterprise standards.
Best for · Large, structured sites
Joomla
Open source · flexibleMultilingual and access control built in — a robust middle ground between WordPress and Drupal, fully managed.
Best for · Membership & multilingual
Wix
Hosted SaaS · all-in-oneThe fastest route to live — hosting, drag-and-drop editing and templates built in. We set it up right and manage it for you.
Best for · Small business, quick launch
Webflow
Visual · designer-builtPixel-perfect, code-quality sites built visually — without the plugin sprawl. Ideal for marketing sites where design is the edge.
Best for · Design-led marketing sitesWhy this matters
Functional value, value-stream value — and why it can't be ignored.
Designs, builds, hosts and manages a familiar CMS such as WordPress — kept fast, secure and continuously updated.
The same conversion-and-trust surface for teams who want a familiar editor: it keeps the value stream's shop window performing without the maintenance burden landing on you.
A neglected CMS is the most-attacked software on the web — an unpatched plugin is a breach waiting to happen, and a slow, outdated site quietly costs you trust and conversions every single day.
One data layer · measured & owned
Every service creates data — captured, measured, owned.
Standard CMS doesn’t just run — it generates signal. We land that data in one warehouse and turn it into live KPIs tied to a named owner, so performance is attributable and acted on, never trapped inside a single tool.
Data warehouse
Supabase
Snowflake
Keboola
BigQuery KPIs, dashboards & apps
Plotly
Retool
Apache Superset Platform-agnostic — we connect what you already use and add a warehouse only where it earns its place.
How we select technology
We choose technology last — for the outcomes it has to earn.
Never tech for its own sake. A tool joins the stack only where it measurably protects value, cuts cost or unlocks speed — fit to a designed system, owned where it counts, and measurable from day one. How we select technology →
Speed
Modern, edge-served stacks are sub-second. Slow surfaces cost conversion and SEO every single day.
Cost
Cut licence, hosting and per-task SaaS fees — pay for capability, not lock-in or idle enterprise tiers.
Security
Flat, edge architecture with almost nothing left to attack — fewer moving parts, smaller surface.
Ownership & no lock-in
Composable and self-hosted where it counts — you own the system, not rent someone else’s.
Measurability
Clean data and KPIs baked in — you cannot improve, automate or apply AI to what you cannot measure.
Fit to process
The right tool for a designed system — selected against process readiness, so it amplifies, not adds friction.
How we deliver · DMAIC
Every Standard CMS engagement runs on DMAIC.
Define the goal and its value, measure the baseline, analyse the real constraint, improve with a proven build, then control the gains — so results are predictable, repeatable and defensible, not down to luck.
Agree the goal, value, budget & timescale up front.
Baseline the KPIs above — current state, not guesswork.
Diagnose the real constraint and the solution needed.
Build the chosen solution; prove the uplift.
Lock in the gains; monitor and sustain them.
FAQ
Common questions
Why would we choose a standard CMS over headless?
Because not every site needs to go headless. When your team wants a familiar, self-service platform they can edit confidently without a developer, that is a legitimate reason to stay on one — and Sentry manages it with the same care as its headless builds rather than treating it as the lesser option.
How dangerous is an unpatched CMS really?
A neglected CMS is the most-attacked software on the web. An unpatched plugin is a breach waiting to happen, and the exposure grows silently every week nobody looks. Sentry keeps core, themes and plugins current so there is no stale, exploitable code sitting in your shop window.
What does Sentry actually do month to month?
Keeps core, themes and plugins patched; tunes the site for speed and search; runs it on reliable managed hosting; monitors uptime and keeps restorable backups; and handles the edits your in-house tools cannot. The aim is that the site stops being something you have to think about.
Which platforms do you manage?
The leading standard content management systems, including WordPress, Craft and Drupal. Sentry designs, builds, hosts and manages them end to end rather than taking over hosting alone, because a patched site on unmanaged hosting is only half the problem solved.
Can you take over a site somebody else built?
Yes. Sentry begins with a free Discovery session that establishes the real state of the site — what is patched, what is exposed, what is slow and what is load-bearing — before changing anything. Inheriting a site without auditing it first is how the next outage gets introduced.
What does a managed CMS cost?
Sentry's managed services start at £3,000 per month, scoped to the work and including selected tool costs. That covers the management, hosting, patching, monitoring and support rather than being a hosting fee with everything else quoted separately.
Start here · the free first step
Standard CMS starts the same way every engagement does: with Discovery.
Two distinct moves — a free, no-obligation Discovery Session to find your value at stake, then the Discovery & Blueprint: 14 structured outputs — value model, roadmap and business case — before a pound of delivery is committed.
Engaged alone or as one engine