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>a WYSIWYG interface front-end that hides MD, GitHub, Jekyll and other back-end technologies from the user This exists and is called a "headless CMS". There ar
by TremendousJudge 5y ago
>a WYSIWYG interface front-end that hides MD, GitHub, Jekyll and other back-end technologies from the user
This exists and is called a "headless CMS". There are plenty out there, I can't speak for all of them, but I once migrated a company blog from wordpress to NetlifyCMS and it was... just ok. The visual editor was good enough (at least compared to WP), but there were a lot of more advanced things that the only way to to them was by writing some React components and referencing them in the markdown. But it allowed a writer -> editor -> publication flow, the github abstraction was well hidden enough, and in case anything went wrong it was pretty easy for a dev to get in there and fix it -- all the content lived in a repo after all.
- zinekeller 5y agoBut again, you admitted that you're at least a team. SquareSpace and Wix (for example) is appealing precisely because most of their users are solely the one maintaining the site, at least when it comes to the editorial and design side. They precisely don't want to know the warts of manually-maintained CMS (and I knew Joomla, it's not pretty) or how to maintain HTTPS, they just want it to act as if it's Word or Photoshop.