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Baun – A modern, lightweight, extensible CMS for PHP

19 points by gilbitron 12y ago

zer0defex 12y ago
I'm all for "just because" projects, but after looking at this, I'm just left shaking my head. CMS? Really? Per the documentation: "Every page of your site is represented by a .md file in the /content folder." Um. Right... and holy hell, that navigation css! The code is 98% markup, 2% content. Please refer to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=4HgUh5bOgbM#t=32 https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=4H...
- gilbitron 12y ago
  We're planning to make an admin UI in the future, but this is just an initial release.
j0k3r 12y ago
Not a single test?
halfnapkin 12y ago
Pretty site--well done!
kszx 12y ago
The Pico CMS website features an attractive description / value proposition: "Pico is a flat file CMS, this means there is no administration backend and database to deal with. You simply create .md files in the "content" folder and that becomes a page." Perhaps you can add a similar sentence to the Baun website as well?
- gilbitron 12y ago
  http://bauncms.com/docs/content/adding-content http://bauncms.com/docs/content/adding-content
- zer0defex 12y ago
  I tried to resist, but I simply have to ask... exactly how do YOU define the term "CMS"? Please be detailed.
shrikant 12y ago
This looks interesting -- do you have a demo up someplace that I can look at? (I'm not in a position to set it up myself for the next couple of weeks...) Also, how is it different from Pico? Since Pico looks very similar and is also your project, is it just a "re-branding"?
- gilbitron 12y ago
  We don't have a demo but http://bauncms.com http://bauncms.com is built using Baun. Despite having similar features to Pico, this is a complete rewrite using modern PHP standards. I sold Pico a while ago and sadly the project seems dead. I'm hoping to go much further with Baun.
Supraperplex 12y ago
I want to use it for a (very) small business website. How safe is this? What headaches should I do prepare for?
- gilbitron 12y ago
  At the moment it's much safer than most other CMS's, as there is no admin backend to hack into. A hacker would need access to your actual server to change a Baun site. So hopefully there should be no headaches.
biomene 12y ago
Looks very similar to Stacey[1], which also uses Twig and Markdown. Are there any significant differences between the two? [1]: https://github.com/kolber/stacey https://github.com/kolber/stacey

19 points by gilbitron 12y ago

I'm all for "just because" projects, but after looking at this, I'm just left shaking my head. CMS? Really? Per the documentation: "Every page of your site is represented by a .md file in the /content folder." Um. Right... and holy hell, that navigation css! The code is 98% markup, 2% content. Please refer to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=4HgUh5bOgbM#t=32 https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=4H...

gilbitron 12y ago
We're planning to make an admin UI in the future, but this is just an initial release.

j0k3r 12y ago

Not a single test?

halfnapkin 12y ago

Pretty site--well done!

kszx 12y ago

The Pico CMS website features an attractive description / value proposition: "Pico is a flat file CMS, this means there is no administration backend and database to deal with. You simply create .md files in the "content" folder and that becomes a page." Perhaps you can add a similar sentence to the Baun website as well?

gilbitron 12y ago
http://bauncms.com/docs/content/adding-content http://bauncms.com/docs/content/adding-content
zer0defex 12y ago
I tried to resist, but I simply have to ask... exactly how do YOU define the term "CMS"? Please be detailed.

shrikant 12y ago

This looks interesting -- do you have a demo up someplace that I can look at? (I'm not in a position to set it up myself for the next couple of weeks...) Also, how is it different from Pico? Since Pico looks very similar and is also your project, is it just a "re-branding"?

gilbitron 12y ago
We don't have a demo but http://bauncms.com http://bauncms.com is built using Baun. Despite having similar features to Pico, this is a complete rewrite using modern PHP standards. I sold Pico a while ago and sadly the project seems dead. I'm hoping to go much further with Baun.

Supraperplex 12y ago

I want to use it for a (very) small business website. How safe is this? What headaches should I do prepare for?

gilbitron 12y ago
At the moment it's much safer than most other CMS's, as there is no admin backend to hack into. A hacker would need access to your actual server to change a Baun site. So hopefully there should be no headaches.

biomene 12y ago

Looks very similar to Stacey[1], which also uses Twig and Markdown. Are there any significant differences between the two? [1]: https://github.com/kolber/stacey https://github.com/kolber/stacey