Hi,

I’ve selfhosted Grav for two years going to three, but I want to move on to something else. I am looking for a flatfile CMS. I have experimented a bit and the best I found so far is Automad, but it isn’t quite there. What alternatives can you recommend? PHP is where I am leaning.

Thanks.

Edit: Given my unclear query, I have struggled themeing. It has always been a pain and for whatever reason, documenting is somewhat unclear.

  • mbirth@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    15 days ago

    After using GitHub Pages (Jekyll) and some experiments with GRAV and Serendipity/S9Y, I’ve ended up with WordPress on SQLite for my blog as it provides everything a proper blog needs: RSS, comments, trackback/pingback, spam filter and ActivityPub/Fediverse integration.

    But for a CMS without any social aspect I’d probably use GRAV and make it work somehow.

    • nicgentile@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      15 days ago

      This seems to be the way. Panel beating Grav. Dang. Wish it were more friendly, but still much respect to the development team.

      • mbirth@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        1 day ago

        From a technical standpoint, I still have some admiration for ProcessWire which is basically just the backend of a CMS and requires you to code the frontend. It has a great API and is awesome to build websites with. Just create your HTML and insert the PHP snippets wherever you need some dynamic info.

        However, it requires a fully fledged database which is what I’m trying to avoid with most of my projects.