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In wake of all the WP craziness a few weeks back, I wonder how long before someone builds a "best of both worlds" CMS to rival WordPress. "You get the nice admi

In wake of all the WP craziness a few weeks back, I wonder how long before someone builds a "best of both worlds" CMS to rival WordPress. "You get the nice admin UI, but it generates a static site" type of thing.

sofixa 2y ago
There are a few of those, I think the term used to describe them is "headless CMS".
anamexis 2y ago
TinaCMS, fka Forestry is trying to do this. It's been a while since I've tried them out, but I love the idea. https://tina.io/ https://tina.io/
abhiyerra 2y ago
Django-Distill I found to be pretty good for this. Use Django and the admin interface while being able to generate a static site.
hombre_fatal 2y ago
There are a lot of those. Even Wordpress has a solution for that where it generates a static site.
- berkes 2y ago
  They have been around for over a decade. Ghost, strapi, grav, etc etc. Many are far more user-friendly than WP. All are more secure, better performing, most easier to develop on¹ and several have far better fitting architectures and concepts for common use-cases. Yet WP continues to churn along. It has it's "marketing" going for it. It has a familiar name, it is predictable (you know what cr*p and legacy you're signing up for, as a techie), and therefore it remains a popular choice. Which is a metric many people use to choose a tech stack on, so it's a flyweel. You've probably not heard about any of the simple, secure, fast, static-file, build-on-CI, nice-UIs CMSs out there. They are there. You can use them to replace your WP. Yes, even if you have a staff of 20+ web-editors that have never even heard about something like "CI", "Git" or commandlines. ¹ I've been Drupal and WP developer from early 2000-s to early 2010-s. I've founded a few webhosting companies specialised in WP hosting. I've helped hundreds, maybe thousands of ppl with "WP stopped working last week, can you have a look". WP development is a ghetto full of dumpsterfires, with, if you know where to look, are very disciplined, avoid 95% of the "streets" (ecosystem), some gems.
Lammy 2y ago
https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-admin https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-admin
WorldMaker 2y ago
Decap CMS: https://decapcms.org/ https://decapcms.org/

sofixa 2y ago

There are a few of those, I think the term used to describe them is "headless CMS".

anamexis 2y ago

TinaCMS, fka Forestry is trying to do this. It's been a while since I've tried them out, but I love the idea. https://tina.io/ https://tina.io/

abhiyerra 2y ago

Django-Distill I found to be pretty good for this. Use Django and the admin interface while being able to generate a static site.

hombre_fatal 2y ago

There are a lot of those. Even Wordpress has a solution for that where it generates a static site.

berkes 2y ago
They have been around for over a decade. Ghost, strapi, grav, etc etc. Many are far more user-friendly than WP. All are more secure, better performing, most easier to develop on¹ and several have far better fitting architectures and concepts for common use-cases. Yet WP continues to churn along. It has it's "marketing" going for it. It has a familiar name, it is predictable (you know what cr*p and legacy you're signing up for, as a techie), and therefore it remains a popular choice. Which is a metric many people use to choose a tech stack on, so it's a flyweel. You've probably not heard about any of the simple, secure, fast, static-file, build-on-CI, nice-UIs CMSs out there. They are there. You can use them to replace your WP. Yes, even if you have a staff of 20+ web-editors that have never even heard about something like "CI", "Git" or commandlines. ¹ I've been Drupal and WP developer from early 2000-s to early 2010-s. I've founded a few webhosting companies specialised in WP hosting. I've helped hundreds, maybe thousands of ppl with "WP stopped working last week, can you have a look". WP development is a ghetto full of dumpsterfires, with, if you know where to look, are very disciplined, avoid 95% of the "streets" (ecosystem), some gems.

Lammy 2y ago

https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-admin https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-admin

WorldMaker 2y ago

Decap CMS: https://decapcms.org/ https://decapcms.org/