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Here's what I would love: A wysiwyg editor much like WordPress outputting static HTML (maybe even directly to S3 buckets). Does this exist?

by mateus1 10y ago

nicolaslem 10y ago
I believe Lektor does that: https://www.getlektor.com https://www.getlektor.com
Tomte 10y ago
Movable Type (expensive). Bricolage (unmaintained for years?).
rad_gruchalski 10y ago
Close but not exactly what you ask for: Jekyll.
- omnimus 10y ago
  what? he wanted wysiwyg, jekyl is just static site generator. one of many btw... and nowdays better pick is probably hugo.
omnimus 10y ago
Considering kirby: admin interface can have many types of "fields" - wysiwyg is one of them (its not core but its popular) html output - there is plugin that builds up html from whole site. you could hook into the build and push whereever you want. so with little setup it can be done with kirby. but same thing would be true for things like wordpress. iam sure there is wp plugin to export to html. you could also simply use wget -m i had lot of luck with that
nilved 10y ago
WordPress with a caching layer is basically that.
- mateus1 10y ago
  Not really, you still have all the WordPress drawbacks (security risk, plugin incompatibilities, crashes). Last time I tried setting up caching with a wp plugin it ended up bringing the whole site down...
  - nilved 10y ago
    The last time I used WordPress (fortunately, very long ago) the most popular caching strategies were SuperCache (writes HTML files to the webroot) and Varnish (a caching reverse-proxy.) In both cases it's trivial to separate the static content from the administrative area. I don't recommend this (I don't recommend anything WordPress) but that seems like what the poster is asking for.
sgallant 10y ago
We had the same need and built https://forestry.io https://forestry.io ...shameless plug :) A cms for static https://gohugo.io https://gohugo.io and http://jekyllrb.com/ http://jekyllrb.com/ sites. • Commits to git repo • Deploys to S3 (and other hosts) • Preview your work • Login to mysite.com/admin (via a React app that communicates with our API) Lots of cool stuff coming soon. Feedback always welcome.
- j_s 10y ago
  Clickable: https://forestry.io https://forestry.io
  - matt4077 10y ago
    I was a bit surprised there for a second that I had not heard of the .shameless TLD.
gadders 10y ago
CityDesk from Fog Creek, as long as you didn't mind going back in time 16 years. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/10/12/what-does-citydesk-do/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/10/12/what-does-citydesk...
laktek 10y ago
If you like to beta test an app, check Pragma (https://www.laktek.com/2016/11/29/introducing-pragma/ https://www.laktek.com/2016/11/29/introducing-pragma/)
smacktoward 10y ago
You just described Movable Type (https://movabletype.org/ https://movabletype.org/), which was WordPress before WordPress was WordPress. The irony here is that the reason WordPress eclipsed Movable Type was that people got tired of having to go through the edit-output static files-publish cycle to modify their content. They wanted to make their changes in an editor and have them appear immediately on the live site, without waiting for a new set of static files to grind out. WP, which generates all pages dynamically, met that demand nicely. Then of course people eventually discovered the downside of generating every page dynamically, namely that it's much more resource intensive, and started to clamor for something more efficient. So the current wave of static site generators were born, doing the exact same thing MT got killed in the marketplace for doing. Sigh.
- neikos 10y ago
  Surely there must be a way to have things appear 'instantly' without needing to have it generated dynamically..
- icebraining 10y ago
  Yeah, I learned about MT's approach from Jeff Atwood back in '09, and have been reading about the new "discovery" of the static site generators with some amusement. That said, MT has a big issue: for something that has been killed in the marketplace, it's quite expensive. I'd love to use it for the non-profit I help out, but at a $1000, it's about $950 more than what they can aford.
sincarne 10y ago
Blogger circa 1999 :) What goes around, comes around, eh?

Here's what I would love: A wysiwyg editor much like WordPress outputting static HTML (maybe even directly to S3 buckets). Does this exist?

by mateus1 10y ago

Here's what I would love: A wysiwyg editor much like WordPress outputting static HTML (maybe even directly to S3 buckets). Does this exist?

nicolaslem 10y ago

I believe Lektor does that: https://www.getlektor.com https://www.getlektor.com

Tomte 10y ago

Movable Type (expensive). Bricolage (unmaintained for years?).

rad_gruchalski 10y ago

Close but not exactly what you ask for: Jekyll.

omnimus 10y ago
what? he wanted wysiwyg, jekyl is just static site generator. one of many btw... and nowdays better pick is probably hugo.

omnimus 10y ago

Considering kirby: admin interface can have many types of "fields" - wysiwyg is one of them (its not core but its popular) html output - there is plugin that builds up html from whole site. you could hook into the build and push whereever you want. so with little setup it can be done with kirby. but same thing would be true for things like wordpress. iam sure there is wp plugin to export to html. you could also simply use wget -m i had lot of luck with that

nilved 10y ago

WordPress with a caching layer is basically that.

mateus1 10y ago
Not really, you still have all the WordPress drawbacks (security risk, plugin incompatibilities, crashes). Last time I tried setting up caching with a wp plugin it ended up bringing the whole site down...
- nilved 10y ago
  The last time I used WordPress (fortunately, very long ago) the most popular caching strategies were SuperCache (writes HTML files to the webroot) and Varnish (a caching reverse-proxy.) In both cases it's trivial to separate the static content from the administrative area. I don't recommend this (I don't recommend anything WordPress) but that seems like what the poster is asking for.

sgallant 10y ago

We had the same need and built https://forestry.io https://forestry.io ...shameless plug :) A cms for static https://gohugo.io https://gohugo.io and http://jekyllrb.com/ http://jekyllrb.com/ sites. • Commits to git repo • Deploys to S3 (and other hosts) • Preview your work • Login to mysite.com/admin (via a React app that communicates with our API) Lots of cool stuff coming soon. Feedback always welcome.

j_s 10y ago
Clickable: https://forestry.io https://forestry.io
- matt4077 10y ago
  I was a bit surprised there for a second that I had not heard of the .shameless TLD.

gadders 10y ago

CityDesk from Fog Creek, as long as you didn't mind going back in time 16 years. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/10/12/what-does-citydesk-do/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/10/12/what-does-citydesk...

laktek 10y ago

If you like to beta test an app, check Pragma (https://www.laktek.com/2016/11/29/introducing-pragma/ https://www.laktek.com/2016/11/29/introducing-pragma/)

smacktoward 10y ago

You just described Movable Type (https://movabletype.org/ https://movabletype.org/), which was WordPress before WordPress was WordPress. The irony here is that the reason WordPress eclipsed Movable Type was that people got tired of having to go through the edit-output static files-publish cycle to modify their content. They wanted to make their changes in an editor and have them appear immediately on the live site, without waiting for a new set of static files to grind out. WP, which generates all pages dynamically, met that demand nicely. Then of course people eventually discovered the downside of generating every page dynamically, namely that it's much more resource intensive, and started to clamor for something more efficient. So the current wave of static site generators were born, doing the exact same thing MT got killed in the marketplace for doing. Sigh.

neikos 10y ago
Surely there must be a way to have things appear 'instantly' without needing to have it generated dynamically..
icebraining 10y ago
Yeah, I learned about MT's approach from Jeff Atwood back in '09, and have been reading about the new "discovery" of the static site generators with some amusement. That said, MT has a big issue: for something that has been killed in the marketplace, it's quite expensive. I'd love to use it for the non-profit I help out, but at a $1000, it's about $950 more than what they can aford.

sincarne 10y ago

Blogger circa 1999 :) What goes around, comes around, eh?