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Backdrop CMS
- Cold-Blooded Software
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Alternatives to Laravel?
https://backdropcms.org was a fork of Drupal before the rewrite. It was pretty decent when I tried it (admittedly several years ago).
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The Magic of Small Databases
I see you decided on Wordpress, if you were going to use a CMS I think Drupal 7 would have been a good choice. Drupal has concept of entities and views. An entity as the name suggests is essentially a table and you can add all sorts of different fields to it. From simple text and number fields to images and fields that lookup other entities thus creating relationships between entities. Views is another construct that lets you choose how to display the entities. As a list of as a table a two possible views. Most of this can be done in Drupal 7 without writing code. I say Drupal 7 because you mentioned Wordpress. Drupal 8 and above is more of a developer framework and requires knowledge of Composer. Backdrop [0] is fork of Drupal 7.
[0]https://backdropcms.org/
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Doing some research on technologies: Why are a large portion of Drupal downloads still the Drupal 7 version?
I think some smaller biz and nonprofits jumped off to https://backdropcms.org
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Leadership?
As a result DO community is not able to delete stuff. For example, they should delete all Drupal 7 stuff on the official website and give the lead to https://backdropcms.org/ regarding support. They should also auto archive issue that are more than a years old without activity.
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8 best opensource projects you should try out
6. BackdropCMS #
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why not continue develop D7 ...
Here is a link to the release history for Backdrop CMS. https://github.com/backdrop/backdrop/tags
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Any other CMS that you find interesting to try after Drupal? (excluding wordpress) π
Backdrop CMS is a fork of Drupal 7, but with lots of the improvements of Drupal 9. https://backdropcms.org/
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Does it make sense to learn Drupal 7 now?
Another important alternative is Backdrop CMS. It's essentially an updated fork of Drupal 7, so migrating is really the easiest choice. Remember, even with D8 and D9, more than 50% of Drupal sites are still on D7. https://backdropcms.org/
- Can a headless Drupal 7 site be safe forever behind say an express server?
Grav
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Ask HN: What products other than Obsidian share the file over app philosophy?
There are flat-file CMSes (content management systems) like Grav: https://getgrav.org/
I guess, in some vague/broad sense, config-as-code systems also implement something similar? Maybe even OpenAPI schemas could count to some degree...?
In the old days, the "semantic web" movement was an attempt to make more webpages both human- and machine-readable indefinitely by tagging them with proper schema: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Description_Framework. Even Google was on board for a while, but I guess it never saw much uptake. As far as I can tell it's basically dead now, both because of non-semantic HTML (everything as a React div), general laziness, and LLMs being able to parse things loosely.
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Side thoughts...
Philosophically, I don't know that capturing raw data alone as files is really sufficient to capture the nuances of any particular experience, or the overall zeitgeist of an era. You can archive Geocities pages, but that doesn't really capture the novelty and indie-ness of that era. Similarly, you can save TikTok videos, but absent the cultural environment that created them (and a faithful recreation of the recommendation algorithm), they wouldn't really show future archaeologists how teenagers today lived.
I worked for a natural history museum for a while, and while we were there, one of the interesting questions (well, to me anyway) was whether our web content was in and of itself worth preserving as a cultural artifact -- both so that future generations can see what exhibits were interesting/apropos for the cultures of our times, but also so they could see how our generation found out about those exhibitions to begin with (who knows what the Web will morph into 50 years later). It wasn't enough to simply save the HTML of our web pages, both because they tie into various other APIs and databases (like zoological collections) and because some were interactive experiences, like games designed to be played with a mouse (before phones were popular), or phone chatbots with some of our specimens. To really capture the experience authentically would've required emulating not just our tech stacks and devices, among other things.
Like for the earlier Geocities example, sure you could just save the old HTML and render it with a modern browser, but that's not the same as something like https://oldweb.today/?browser=ns3-mac#http://geocities.com/ , which emulates the whole OS and browser too. And that still isn't the same as having to sit in front of a tiny CRT and wait minutes for everything to download over a 14.4k modem, only to be interrupted when mom had to make a call.
I guess that's a longwinded of critiquing "file over app": It only makes sense for things that are originally files/documents to begin with. Much of our lives now are not flat docs but "experiences" that take much more thought and effort to archive. If the goal is truly to preserve that posterity, it's not enough to just archive their raw data, but to develop ways to record and later emulate entire experiences, both technological and cultural. It ain't easy!
- Soupault: A static website management tool
- Grav is a modern open-source flat-file CMS
- Grav β A Modern Flat-File CMS Using PHP and Markdown
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It Took Me a Decade to Find the Perfect Personal Website Stack β Ghost+Fathom
I took a more traditional approach, focusing on something that's "good enough", which in my case was a cheap VPS and an install of Grav: https://getgrav.org/
Some optional customization for page templates/fonts/CSS, some CI so I can build and deploy it inside of a Docker container, Matomo for analytics that respect privacy (which I already use elsewhere) and some additional web server configuration to hide anything interesting behind an additional login and I'm good. Maybe backups and uptime monitoring if I'm feeling brave, which is what most sites should also have (so copy + paste there).
All of that for under 100 euros per year (could also pay half of that if I didn't host anything else on the server), the blog has actually survived getting on the front page of HN once or twice and requires relatively little maintenance, at least a bit less than a proper install of WordPress, due to its larger surface area.
The best thing is that it's simple enough for me to understand how it works, to be able to move it anywhere as needed and use more or less plain Markdown for writing the blog posts. Here's a quick example of a recent post: https://blog.kronis.dev/articles/ever-wanted-to-read-thousan...
Now all that's left is to find motivation to write more, but at least 90% of my time doesn't go into tinkering with custom fancy solutions, no matter how much I'd love that. Then again, nothing wrong with the alternatives either: 400 euros might be perfectly worth it for some, whereas working with static site generators or even custom CMSes would be a fun experience for others!
- Grav: Modern, open-source, flat-file CMS
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Is it possible to convert a WordPress site into a static site that can still be easily edited?
I'd check out Grav. https://getgrav.org/
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Gravity - A new, open source DNS/DHCP server with Adblocking and inbuilt config replication
Also, there is a CMS called Grav. Both Gravity and Grav use a very similar (but not identical) font for their logo.
- Mercredi Tech - 2023-06-28
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website with unlimited pages ??
I would use a flat file cms like https://getgrav.org
What are some alternatives?
Joomla! - Home of the Joomla! Content Management System
Pico - Pico is a stupidly simple, blazing fast, flat file CMS.
Drupal Commerce - Commerce 2.x development
october - Self-hosted CMS platform based on the Laravel PHP Framework.
CraftCMS - Build bespoke content experiences with Craft.
Bolt - Bolt is a simple CMS written in PHP. It is based on Silex and Symfony components, uses Twig and either SQLite, MySQL or PostgreSQL.
TYPO3 - The TYPO3 Core - Enterprise Content Management System. Synchronized mirror of https://review.typo3.org/q/project:Packages/TYPO3.CMS
Bludit - Simple, Fast, Secure, Flat-File CMS
Publify - A self hosted Web publishing platform on Rails.
Strapi - π Strapi is the leading open-source headless CMS. Itβs 100% JavaScript/TypeScript, fully customizable and developer-first.
GetSimple CMS - GetSimple CMS