Live demo with a Gatsby website on stage at JAMstack Conf: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPDCmbaEF0Y
Demo starts around 3:45
https://youtu.be/iPDCmbaEF0Y?t=227
Tina is not a CMS
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#32>"using a CMS feels more like filing your taxes than editing a website" Loved this quote. I've recently realized this when trying to get a family member (millennial generation) to understand how to edit the simple website she had created using wordpress.
I’m guessing that quote was written by an American. For comparison, I filed my Australian taxes on Friday. My tax affairs are admittedly fairly simple, but I comfortably finished the whole process in under ten minutes including looking up a few things for such items as deductions for my home office. Not all taxes are hard, just as not all CMSes are hard.
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#33I'm currently using Netlify CMS on my Gatsby site for the blog bit. Any reason I should switch to this?
I'd do a quick demo for your client/team and see if they have a preference.
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#34I love static sites and made some using Hugo. A year later i've started working with WordPress and its ugly/nice (it depends) Gutenberg editor and to be honest, having a look at the quality (yes, there are a lot of excellent plugins and a lot of bad ones) and the availabilty of plugins,i think WordPress is the only platform to go for business oriented websites where seo, caching and other things matters a lot. I've b…
There are a few. I've used them instead of upgrading our Wordpress to fix security issues.
We don't use dynamic data, like comments and forms, so the cost of upgrading everything vs just rendering the static site and putting the wordpress instance behind a Basic Authentication is more cost effective.
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#35I love static sites and made some using Hugo. A year later i've started working with WordPress and its ugly/nice (it depends) Gutenberg editor and to be honest, having a look at the quality (yes, there are a lot of excellent plugins and a lot of bad ones) and the availabilty of plugins,i think WordPress is the only platform to go for business oriented websites where seo, caching and other things matters a lot. I've b…
Another option is to use a static WordPress hosting, like Shifter, Hardy Press or Strattic.
Re: Tina is not a CMS
#36I love static sites and made some using Hugo. A year later i've started working with WordPress and its ugly/nice (it depends) Gutenberg editor and to be honest, having a look at the quality (yes, there are a lot of excellent plugins and a lot of bad ones) and the availabilty of plugins,i think WordPress is the only platform to go for business oriented websites where seo, caching and other things matters a lot. I've b…
So much this. We work with WordPress where our non tech savvy cllients have to build a lot of content using page builders. I wish there was an easy way to auto deploy most of the content as static while keeping the power of CMS capability. We either have very User oriented CMSs including WordPress or developer oriented tools like Gatsby/gridsome etc. Sorry but my B2B client is not going to run a "gatsby build" on eve…
So you should try Publii CMS. It's a good use case for this. Very “client oriented”. It can deploy static sites to Netlify, Github Pages, FTP, and so on.
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#37I love static sites and made some using Hugo. A year later i've started working with WordPress and its ugly/nice (it depends) Gutenberg editor and to be honest, having a look at the quality (yes, there are a lot of excellent plugins and a lot of bad ones) and the availabilty of plugins,i think WordPress is the only platform to go for business oriented websites where seo, caching and other things matters a lot. I've b…
Good to hear some good words about WordPress here at HN. I am working with WordPress based sites since ver 1.5. WP, in trained hands, can do wonders. It can be used as a back-end framework accessible via APIs and can also be used to serve static content.
This. I see that a lot of people just dismiss WordPress without knowing it — or it's ecosystem — enough. Of course that it does have lots of issues, but it's place for certain use cases it very difficult to beat.
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#38>"using a CMS feels more like filing your taxes than editing a website" Loved this quote. I've recently realized this when trying to get a family member (millennial generation) to understand how to edit the simple website she had created using wordpress.
To add a bit of realism: there may be a time when you wish to add something that was not foreseen by the creators, and then you're back at filling tax forms again. It might even be worse because there's no big community yet to provide help. Every CMS out there started with the goal to make things simple, so why should it be different this time?
Tina maintainer here! Tina is not a CMS in the traditional sense. It’s a set of tools that let you make your site it’s own CMS. It’s going to be different, because it’s not the same kind of code. It’s not an app, or even a framework, it’s a ecosystem of libraries. The way it’s structured makes it really easy to extend or customize behaviour.
One of our biggest goals is to build that community you’re talking about, and provide as much help as possible to newcomers. At Forestry—the sponsor company—we take support seriously and will continue to do so with Tina :)
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#39I love static sites and made some using Hugo. A year later i've started working with WordPress and its ugly/nice (it depends) Gutenberg editor and to be honest, having a look at the quality (yes, there are a lot of excellent plugins and a lot of bad ones) and the availabilty of plugins,i think WordPress is the only platform to go for business oriented websites where seo, caching and other things matters a lot. I've b…
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Re: Tina is not a CMS
#40I love static sites and made some using Hugo. A year later i've started working with WordPress and its ugly/nice (it depends) Gutenberg editor and to be honest, having a look at the quality (yes, there are a lot of excellent plugins and a lot of bad ones) and the availabilty of plugins,i think WordPress is the only platform to go for business oriented websites where seo, caching and other things matters a lot. I've b…
Wordpress definitely is great for some cases, but SSGs absolutely handle SEO, they’re by definition bettyer at caching, they’re immensely more secure, and absolutely capable of building complex sites. At Forestry, we’ve seen a lot of teams have success.
But you’re right, Static site generators have been awesome for developers and less-so for non-developers...Tina is here to change that. The dev experience with Tina is still even better, and it provides the power to make the content editing experience that non-Devs love. Keep an eye out! we’ve been talking to some people and Wordpress support may be in the works soon