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Kirby Alternatives
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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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WordPress
WordPress, Git-ified. This repository is just a mirror of the WordPress subversion repository. Please do not send pull requests. Submit pull requests to https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop and patches to https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ instead.
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ProcessWire
ProcessWire 3.x is a friendly and powerful open source CMS with a strong API.
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CraftCMS
Craft is a flexible, extensible platform for creating bespoke digital experiences.
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Strapi
🚀 Strapi is the leading open-source headless CMS. It’s 100% JavaScript, fully customizable and developer-first.
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Textpattern
A flexible, elegant, fast and easy-to-use content management system written in PHP.
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SonarLint
Clean code begins in your IDE with SonarLint. Up your coding game and discover issues early. SonarLint is a free plugin that helps you find & fix bugs and security issues from the moment you start writing code. Install from your favorite IDE marketplace today.
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Directus
The Modern Data Stack 🐰 — Directus is an instant REST+GraphQL API and intuitive no-code data collaboration app for any SQL database.
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Ghost
Turn your audience into a business. Publishing, memberships, subscriptions and newsletters.
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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. (by bolt)
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eleventy 🕚⚡️
A simpler static site generator. An alternative to Jekyll. Transforms a directory of templates (of varying types) into HTML.
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winter
Free, open-source, self-hosted CMS platform based on the Laravel PHP Framework.
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InfluxDB
Build time-series-based applications quickly and at scale.. InfluxDB is the Time Series Platform where developers build real-time applications for analytics, IoT and cloud-native services. Easy to start, it is available in the cloud or on-premises.
Kirby reviews and mentions
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best php-based cms/tech choice
Another area of CMS Systems are Flat File System based CMS which I did last time not hear a lot around but there was a lot of noice in the past from Kirby CMS and Grav CMS. Instead of a database they store all there data inside files and I mostly saw more for simpler website build with it where not specific security releated user context based content where used.
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How to create an easily extendable page?
If you must stay with front-end tech you can use fetch with a path rather than a url to get public files from a given dir. Maybe look into static site generators (eleventy for example) or flat-file CMSs (kirby for example).
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Learning curve for Joomla and Drupal
I would recommend Grav or Kirby (if your site is less than 50 pages) or Craft if your site is larger than that. Craft is especially nice. I has an incredibly powerful developer experience and an incredibly refined editor experience. Those 2 don't often go together. Grav and Kirby are nice in that they give you all the nice features of a CMS, but don't require a database, so they're trivially easy to stand up almost anywhere.
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Show HN: I made a CMS that uses Git to store your data
What OP is building is not a typical "flat file CMS".
Flat File CMS are typical CMS systems (often times written in PHP) that run on the server, but use files (often Markdown/Frontmatter) as their data layer (instead of a DB like Wordpress, Drupal, etc.) – if you're looking for a really nice Flat File CMS take a look at Kirby (https://getkirby.com).
What OP is building (I think) and what others like Netlify CMS and Tina CMS do, are Frontend Applications (typically SPA) that output a set of content files, which can then be fed into a static site generator (like Next.js, Astro, Hugo, Jekyll), which will built a website from it. So it's a "smaller" concept than flat file CMS. Typically these "static CMS" only care about content and have nothing to do with templating, etc.
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What CMS to use in 2022
My vote is for Kirby.
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What cms to use free and get first experience to integrate it?
+1 for Grav given OP's requirements. Other CMSs in this vein: Statamic, Kirby
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What are people using these days to build commercial small scale websites?
https://getkirby.com is like Statamic, only without Laravel bloat and cheaper.
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Ask HN: What's your favorite flat file blog?
Kirby. https://getkirby.com
It’s PHP based, but content is all stored as markdown with optional front-matter.
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Smaller is better (The rise, fall, and rise of flat file software)
I'm trying to get away from a DB-based CMS for some company web sites. Static generators won't do for a number of reasons, so a flat-file CMS seems like a good fit.
Currently I'm looking at GravCMS [1] as an alternative. It's free initially, but it can become somewhat expensive with many official plugins. But it's file format is Markdown, and one can combine multiple files into a so-called modular page. It has a backend for editing, forms and e-mailing of form submissions. Seems perfect for small and mid-sized company web site.
Another option I considered was Kirby [2]. Its backend UI is configurable. That's nice in theory but the documentation is somewhat lacking, in my opinion. I've used the starterpack and it took me hours to find the one command to be able to add new pages. Its content format is also custom, not Markdown. Finally, it's €100 per site.
Also, a few days ago, I stumbled upon Typemill [3] which I will check next week.
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