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Strapi
🚀 Strapi is the leading open-source headless CMS. It’s 100% JavaScript/TypeScript, fully customizable, and developer-first.
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amplication
Amplication brings order to the chaos of large-scale software development by creating Golden Paths for developers - streamlined workflows that drive consistency, enable high-quality code practices, simplify onboarding, and accelerate standardized delivery across teams.
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Typesense
Open Source alternative to Algolia + Pinecone and an Easier-to-Use alternative to ElasticSearch ⚡ 🔍 ✨ Fast, typo tolerant, in-memory fuzzy Search Engine for building delightful search experiences
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partytown
Relocate resource intensive third-party scripts off of the main thread and into a web worker. 🎉
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leaf
🍁 Go from idea to launch with clean and elegant PHP that grows with you. The framework for makers (by leafsphp)
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Grav
Modern, Crazy Fast, Ridiculously Easy and Amazingly Powerful Flat-File CMS powered by PHP, Markdown, Twig, and Symfony
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Jeffgeerling.com has been Migrated to Hugo
> there is a Drupal 7 site that I need to migrate to something
You may be interested in Backdrop, which is a maintained fork of Drupal 7.
https://backdropcms.org/
(No experience with it personally. Only know about it from a friend who uses it.)
- Backdrop CMS: Free Open Source CMS Built in PHP
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So Long WordPress
Have you checked out Backdrop CMS? https://backdropcms.org/
- 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
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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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Stats
Basic Backdrop CMS repo stats
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backdrop/backdrop is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v2.0 (or higher) which is not an OSI approved license.
Backdrop CMS is marked as "self-hosted". This means that it can be used as a standalone application on its own.
The primary programming language of Backdrop CMS is PHP.
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