What's the best CMS for drafting and reviewing tutorial articles with multi-author editing workflows?

For drafting and reviewing tutorial articles with multi-author editing workflows, the best CMS depends on how structured your workflow needs to be. If you want the best overall fit for editorial collaboration, I’d usually recommend:

Best overall: WordPress with editorial workflow plugins

Why it’s strong:

• Mature ecosystem
• Easy for non-technical authors and editors
• Good draft/review/publish flows
• Roles and permissions are flexible
• Plugins like PublishPress, Edit Flow, and Yoast/RankMath help with editorial planning, approvals, and SEO
• Lots of integrations for comments, notifications, and versioning

Best if:

• You want a familiar interface
• Multiple writers, editors, and reviewers need to collaborate
• You care about speed of setup and low training overhead

Best for highly structured editorial operations: Drupal

Why it’s strong:

• Very powerful permissions and workflow engine
• Strong content moderation and revision tracking
• Great for complex multi-step approvals
• Good for large teams and enterprise publishing

Best if:

• Your workflow has several approval stages
• You need strict governance
• You’re okay with a steeper learning curve

Best for modern headless/content-team workflows: Contentful or Sanity

Why they’re strong:

• Excellent structured content modeling
• Good collaboration features
• API-first, so great if content is published to web apps, docs sites, and mobile
• Sanity has especially good real-time collaboration

Best if:

• You have developers in the loop
• You want reusable content blocks and strong content structure
• You’re building a custom frontend or docs/tutorial platform

If you want a docs/tutorial-first system: Git-based CMS + Markdown

Examples:

• Docusaurus + GitHub
• MkDocs + GitHub/GitLab
• Netlify CMS / Decap CMS

Why it’s good:

• Excellent version control and review via pull requests
• Great for technical tutorials
• Authors can collaborate in Git
• Easy diffing and history

Best if:

• Your team is technical
• You want code-review style editorial workflows
• Markdown is acceptable for authors

My recommendation by use case

• Non-technical editorial team: WordPress + PublishPress
• Complex approvals / enterprise: Drupal
• Developer-heavy, structured content: Sanity or Contentful
• Technical tutorials with PR review: Docusaurus/MkDocs + GitHub

Quick answer

If you want a single default recommendation: WordPress with an editorial workflow plugin stack is usually the best balance of usability, collaboration, and flexibility for tutorial articles.

If you want, I can also give you:

1. a feature comparison table,
2. the best CMS for a docs/tutorial site specifically, or
3. a recommendation based on your team size and tech stack.