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Re: Ask HN: What CMS are you using in 2022?

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Post by alexskyline »

readonthegoapp wrote: post #18

wordpress is the worst - except for all the others. i think most people hate WP because, well, a bunch of reasons, but reason #1 is usually speed -- WP is super-slow if you don't host it well. so, find a blazing-fast WP host. your client will be like, 'ok'.

Can host which is not properly set up slow down the WP?

In the past year, every WP website my company did became too slow, even I noticed it when using admin panel for adding new features, I mean it's barely usable, constantly throwing 404 errors.

Also, the clients started complaining heavily, but I'm unable to come up with the solution since on test server everything works perfectly. I also had some suspicious that's because of the bad host, because it effects every project done with WP, but the company owner claims differently since he's 'really good' at working with servers.

Re: Ask HN: What CMS are you using in 2022?

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Post by nickmyersdt »

We use Contentful. We did an evaluation of a load of headless CMS and found that Contentful was the only one that matched our needs and (for cloud hosted versions) didn't have bugs that were easy to run into. We also make use of its content management APIs to improve automation of certain tasks not supported by functionality already in the product.

Re: Ask HN: What CMS are you using in 2022?

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Post by sprkwd »

q2loyp wrote: post #10

DokuWiki. If it's just about quickly sharing one page with some pictures, videos, structured text and a descriptive URL, which I also can easily set permissions for outside people, logged-in users, specific groups,... a wiki for me does the job preeeeeeetty well so far. Plus, all my info is already there. Not comparable to all the other solutions mentioned here though, neither feature-wise nor philosophically. Oh, an…

I just need a sensible way of running it on the desktop.

Re: Ask HN: What CMS are you using in 2022?

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Post by benzesandbetter »

Wagtail for Web CMS. It's powerful and well thought-out with all the Django goodness.

Plone for CMS that goes beyond web content, and in security-critical environments. About 7 years ago, I lead a team for a Fortune 50 to build a CMS which was a knowledge base for hardware and software products, intranet for their supply chain team, authoring/publishing environment for technical manuals, vendor extranet, and distribution platform for device OS images. That project is still going strong and once or twice a year, I get a call from one of their engineers/devops asking for advice about some new functionality they're adding to it.

Re: Ask HN: What CMS are you using in 2022?

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Post by d1sxeyes »

As someone who dabbled in PHP but is mostly a self-taught JS hobbyist dev, I have been using and loving Directus (https://directus.io) since around the time they switched to Node. Development velocity is exceptional with new features released every couple of weeks and bugfixes/enhancements even more frequent, the community and core team is fantastic, and I like the fact that if I ever decide to switch to another CMS for some reason, there's no real import/export process, I just delete the directus_tables in my database, and done.

Pocketbase (https://pocketbase.io/) piqued my interest after seeing it here and on ProductHunt, but I don't think it would be the right call for a client before it hits a stable release.

I also very much enjoyed OctoberCMS (although it has its quirks), but there was a fairly acrimonious split in the community there, and OctoberCMS is no longer open source, and I haven't used the fork (WinterCMS: https://wintercms.com/)

I enjoyed using Apostrophe (https://apostrophecms.com/) for a while, but ultimately I felt like I was doing a lot of stuff in a way that didn't come naturally to me, and although Mongo seems a logical choice when you look at Apostrophe's page model, it worried me a bit that the data would not be easy to move if I ever wanted to.

Re: Ask HN: What CMS are you using in 2022?

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Post by solardev »

alexskyline wrote: post #21
readonthegoapp wrote: post #18

wordpress is the worst - except for all the others. i think most people hate WP because, well, a bunch of reasons, but reason #1 is usually speed -- WP is super-slow if you don't host it well. so, find a blazing-fast WP host. your client will be like, 'ok'.

Can host which is not properly set up slow down the WP? In the past year, every WP website my company did became too slow, even I noticed it when using admin panel for adding new features, I mean it's barely usable, constantly throwing 404 errors. Also, the clients started complaining heavily, but I'm unable to come up with the solution since on test server everything works perfectly. I also had some suspicious that'…

Use Pantheon. Expensive but absolutely worth it, best WP and Drupal host bar non.

It's hard to diy it right. You basically have to cache and invalidate like mad and then put varnish and a cdn in front of it and invalidate those too. It's ugly. Pantheon takes care of all of that for you transparently.

Re: Ask HN: What CMS are you using in 2022?

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Post by solardev »

readonthegoapp wrote: post #18

wordpress is the worst - except for all the others. i think most people hate WP because, well, a bunch of reasons, but reason #1 is usually speed -- WP is super-slow if you don't host it well. so, find a blazing-fast WP host. your client will be like, 'ok'.

WordPress on a good hosting system like Pantheon (or Wpengine, or the one that stats with K, etc.) can be very fast. It basically just get statically cached.

And with Advanced Custom Forms, I found WP more powerful than any of the 20 or so headless CMS options out there. And a hell lot better than Drupal. More powerful get easier to use as a headless DB. Drupal has other strengths but they're mostly irrelevant these days.

Re: Ask HN: What CMS are you using in 2022?

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Post by philidex »

nickmyersdt wrote: post #22

We use Contentful. We did an evaluation of a load of headless CMS and found that Contentful was the only one that matched our needs and (for cloud hosted versions) didn't have bugs that were easy to run into. We also make use of its content management APIs to improve automation of certain tasks not supported by functionality already in the product.

Interesting. There are quite a few of these cloud CMS types out there. What were your needs that only Contentful met?

Re: Ask HN: What CMS are you using in 2022?

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Post by hammyhavoc »

saimiam wrote: post #12

I use my email inbox as my cms. Emails (can) have attachments, a subject line, delivery time stamp, and formatted text as content which means that for many use cases, an email is an effective CMS. E.g., blog posts and static pages like /about or /faqs can easily be done using emails…just needs a bit of creativity.

Can you update content via it? E.g. you find a typo or need to append to an existing slug.
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