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Getting Started With Toto, a Tiny WordPress Killer

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Re: Getting Started With Toto, a Tiny WordPress Killer

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Post by mattmiller »

kmano8 wrote: post #2

I've been looking for a lightweight alternative to wordpress, so I'll give this a runaround. My only barrier to entry is having to dump all of wordpress posts into whichever new CMS I choose.

It would be pretty easy to dump each post into its own txt file to work with this. You might have a problem importing comments, I am not sure if disqus has a way to import older comments. I would guess not.

Re: Getting Started With Toto, a Tiny WordPress Killer

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Post by armandososa »

Tiny Wordpress Killer? That's the worst misleading title I've read in a while (and you'll se a lot of that here at HN). WordPress is a blogging software slowly becoming a full-blown CMS which is easy to host and --arguably-- easy to use.

Toto is a nice simple script that publishes static files to heroku via git. It's interesting, and hackish, and fun, but hardly a WP killer.

Re: Getting Started With Toto, a Tiny WordPress Killer

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Post by URSpider94 »

If you're interested in an ultra-lightweight blogging platform, may I suggest that you check out Bloxsom (http://www.bloxsom.com, pronounced "Blossom")? It's written in Perl, all blog entries are text files, and categorization is done by sorting the entries into different folders.

Admittedly, it doesn't run on RoR, so you can't just pop it up on Heroku, but Bloxsom has been around for years and years, and has a stable group of maintainers on Sourceforge.

Re: Getting Started With Toto, a Tiny WordPress Killer

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Post by cloudhead »

armandososa wrote: post #4

Tiny Wordpress Killer? That's the worst misleading title I've read in a while (and you'll se a lot of that here at HN). WordPress is a blogging software slowly becoming a full-blown CMS which is easy to host and --arguably-- easy to use. Toto is a nice simple script that publishes static files to heroku via git. It's interesting, and hackish, and fun, but hardly a WP killer.

I don't see how your description of WordPress makes it different from Toto.

Toto is blogging software, has a full blown CMS, through git, is easy to host (Heroku), and is easy to use.

Hence, they serve the same purpose, which is of publishing and managing articles in the cloud.

Re: Getting Started With Toto, a Tiny WordPress Killer

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Post by mdolon »

URSpider94 wrote: post #5

If you're interested in an ultra-lightweight blogging platform, may I suggest that you check out Bloxsom ( http://www.bloxsom.com , pronounced "Blossom")? It's written in Perl, all blog entries are text files, and categorization is done by sorting the entries into different folders. Admittedly, it doesn't run on RoR, so you can't just pop it up on Heroku, but Bloxsom has been around for years and years, and has a sta…

I think you meant Blosxom: http://www.blosxom.com/

Your link goes to someone's personal homepage. :)

Re: Getting Started With Toto, a Tiny WordPress Killer

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Post by mdolon »

cloudhead wrote: post #6
armandososa wrote: post #4

Tiny Wordpress Killer? That's the worst misleading title I've read in a while (and you'll se a lot of that here at HN). WordPress is a blogging software slowly becoming a full-blown CMS which is easy to host and --arguably-- easy to use. Toto is a nice simple script that publishes static files to heroku via git. It's interesting, and hackish, and fun, but hardly a WP killer.

I don't see how your description of WordPress makes it different from Toto. Toto is blogging software, has a full blown CMS, through git, is easy to host (Heroku), and is easy to use. Hence, they serve the same purpose, which is of publishing and managing articles in the cloud.

I would argue that it's easy to use for a hacker. For the majority of bloggers, using git and Heroku is probably not a simple or easy task.

Re: Getting Started With Toto, a Tiny WordPress Killer

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Post by wwortiz »

cloudhead wrote: post #6
armandososa wrote: post #4

Tiny Wordpress Killer? That's the worst misleading title I've read in a while (and you'll se a lot of that here at HN). WordPress is a blogging software slowly becoming a full-blown CMS which is easy to host and --arguably-- easy to use. Toto is a nice simple script that publishes static files to heroku via git. It's interesting, and hackish, and fun, but hardly a WP killer.

I don't see how your description of WordPress makes it different from Toto. Toto is blogging software, has a full blown CMS, through git, is easy to host (Heroku), and is easy to use. Hence, they serve the same purpose, which is of publishing and managing articles in the cloud.

How do I use it without installing a bunch of stuff on my Windows computer?

Wordpress is for the masses this is like jekyll alternative rather than wordpress killer.

Re: Getting Started With Toto, a Tiny WordPress Killer

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Post by trevorturk »

FWIW - I just migrated my old WordPress site to Heroku, but I decided to keep the WP database structure intact.

So, I made a little Sinatra app with an ActiveRecord adapter that can understand the WP db schema.

It's just a hack to support my immediate needs at this point, but I think the concept is a good one.

http://github.com/trevorturk/trevorturk

Holler if it looks interesting to you.

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