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Publii: Open-source local WYSIWYG static site CMS

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Re: Publii: Open-source local WYSIWYG static site CMS

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Post by bilekas »

This is the first time seeing this and I have to say I'm super interested.

Been researching some CMS' recently and was not really impressed, was thinking of a Frankenstein with Strapi but this looks like it could be absolutely perfect.

Great work, will check it out further and so far from what I see will be joining the community to help !

Re: Publii: Open-source local WYSIWYG static site CMS

#34

Post by tailspin2019 »

pbowyer wrote: post #18
jrm4 wrote: post #8

It's interesting to see people rediscover this idea of "develop locally, push static site to web," but I think the weirdest thing for me is, why was this not a continuous thing? Broadly, this looks good for a blog format, but not sure if that's what people need? Anyway, for those interested, I just use http://zim-wiki.org plus a custom CSS template I did.

> It's interesting to see people rediscover this idea of "develop locally, push static site to web," Yes! Dreamweaver was good 19 years ago and remains good today. Being able to see what you're doing, without running like treacle in the browser whilst editing (I'm looking at you, Divi and other WP visual theme builders), is an awesome experience. Like professionals in many other fields expect from their software.

> Dreamweaver was good 19 years ago and remains good today.

Notepad.exe was good 19 years ago.

Dreamweaver? Not so much.

:)

Re: Publii: Open-source local WYSIWYG static site CMS

#36

Post by marc_io »

lenova wrote: post #24

Huge Publii fan here, glad to see it on the front page. I feel like the only thing holding Publii back is the lack of theme diversity, and definitely could use some third-party designer love to push it forward.

Yes, more themes are needed, but I think they should also focus more on options for creating pages, especially landing pages. This would be very interesting for business-focused sites — which I believe are the majority these days.

Re: Publii: Open-source local WYSIWYG static site CMS

#37

Post by troymc »

indigodaddy wrote: post #13
loteck wrote: post #3

I use Publii for a blog and enjoy it. I wanted actively developed static site generation with some reasonable template/theme options, and I didn't care about multi-user or team collaboration. I achieved multi-device sync via storing Publii in a cloud location. I looked into developing a theme using their theme system and it seemed unattainable for anyone who doesn't have significant time to invest in understanding th…

Does Publii still not officially support git versioning? If it did I probably would have played with it..

I don't think Publii is aimed at people who know what git is. Those people already have lots of great options.

Re: Publii: Open-source local WYSIWYG static site CMS

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Post by marc_io »

indigodaddy wrote: post #13
loteck wrote: post #3

I use Publii for a blog and enjoy it. I wanted actively developed static site generation with some reasonable template/theme options, and I didn't care about multi-user or team collaboration. I achieved multi-device sync via storing Publii in a cloud location. I looked into developing a theme using their theme system and it seemed unattainable for anyone who doesn't have significant time to invest in understanding th…

Does Publii still not officially support git versioning? If it did I probably would have played with it..

You can create a regular Publii-independent Github repository to hold locally generated versions of your site.

This repository can then be automatically synced to the live site via Cloudflare Pages. This option even allows using a private repository.

https://getpublii.com/docs/configure-cloudflare-pages-with-p...

Re: Publii: Open-source local WYSIWYG static site CMS

#39

Post by bilekas »

tailspin2019 wrote: post #34
pbowyer wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It's interesting to see people rediscover this idea of "develop locally, push static site to web," Yes! Dreamweaver was good 19 years ago and remains good today. Being able to see what you're doing, without running like treacle in the browser whilst editing (I'm looking at you, Divi and other WP visual theme builders), is an awesome experience. Like professionals in many other fields expect from their software.

> Dreamweaver was good 19 years ago and remains good today. Notepad.exe was good 19 years ago. Dreamweaver? Not so much. :)

Dreamweaver was a good idea, but impossible for them to maintain. In my experience it was regularly giving bad results.

It was a great tool for learning HTML and CSS though, but mainly because you would always end up just going into the source to fix it and view in DW.

I would be very nervous of anyone using it these days for anything else.

Re: Publii: Open-source local WYSIWYG static site CMS

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Post by fmajid »

sfmike wrote: post #16
fmajid wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Try Quiqr, which just launched at HugoConf: https://open.quiqr.org/ Fair warning, it’s a bit rough around the edges.

is this gui? you can edit in wysiwyg?

Yes, it's a WYSIWYG front-end running locally on your PC, Mac or Linux computer.

Mind you, I haven't actually used it much beyond importing a WP site, so this isn't an endorsement.

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