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Re: Getting Started With Toto, a Tiny WordPress Killer

#21
On my blog (http://neosmart.net/blog/) I'm running our own "PerformancePress."

It's a WordPress install with a custom frontend. So you get a mind-blowing admin interface, and light-speed frontend. Updates to the frontend are a PITA when it comes to syncing new features with the backend, but for the basics (posts, comments, pingbacks, and.... that's it! It's a BLOG!!) it does the job.

Re: Getting Started With Toto, a Tiny WordPress Killer

#23
post #7

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. :)

Oops, you are so right.

Thanks.

Re: Getting Started With Toto, a Tiny WordPress Killer

#27

On my blog ( http://neosmart.net/blog/ ) I'm running our own "PerformancePress." It's a WordPress install with a custom frontend. So you get a mind-blowing admin interface, and light-speed frontend. Updates to the frontend are a PITA when it comes to syncing new features with the backend, but for the basics (posts, comments, pingbacks, and.... that's it! It's a BLOG!!) it does the job.

I get this "PerformancePress" is proprietary software?

Good for you to have it.

Re: Getting Started With Toto, a Tiny WordPress Killer

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post #27

On my blog ( http://neosmart.net/blog/ ) I'm running our own "PerformancePress." It's a WordPress install with a custom frontend. So you get a mind-blowing admin interface, and light-speed frontend. Updates to the frontend are a PITA when it comes to syncing new features with the backend, but for the basics (posts, comments, pingbacks, and.... that's it! It's a BLOG!!) it does the job.

I get this "PerformancePress" is proprietary software? Good for you to have it.

Yeah, we wrote it in-house. I was speaking with the WordPress team about merging the changes back or something and sponsored a GSoC project for PerformancePress, but they ended up going somewhere else with the GSoC project that I mentored which ultimately failed.
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