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Thank you. At last some glimpse of sanity among the freaking complex world of web dev. More power to the Rule of Least Power. [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_least_power
I wish there was something like this, but for serial dynamic content, like blog posts, reviews, etc. People are really attached to WP, but customization and themes are a nightmare.
I think people are attached to Wordpress for the same reason we are attached to Javascript. At the time, it was one of the only ways of easily creating a blog. The problem with Wordpress is that once you need to do something outside of the norm then all of the sudden you need deep knowledge of Wordpress's inner workings.
I spent a very brief time as a contributor to WP internals (not core by any means but a handful of contributions) and not only do you need a lot of internal knowledge to do anything outside of point-and-click, like you said, a lot of the core folks had never worked on any other large software projects, didn't do anything outside of WordPress, and had very little desire to make sure what they were doing was sound from a software engineering / code quality standpoint. It's a pretty great example of the big ball of mud / spaghetti code cliche.
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I think people are attached to Wordpress for the same reason we are attached to Javascript. At the time, it was one of the only ways of easily creating a blog. The problem with Wordpress is that once you need to do something outside of the norm then all of the sudden you need deep knowledge of Wordpress's inner workings.
There was never a time when WordPress was the only easy way for even a non-technical person to create a blog, they just did a great job marketing that that was the case. I spent a very brief time as a contributor to WP internals (not core by any means but a handful of contributions) and not only do you need a lot of internal knowledge to do anything outside of point-and-click, like you said, a lot of the core folks h…
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That sounds like static content to me, what's wrong with just HTML?
It's not really static. It grabs data from a database, or an API, and renders using entity-specific templates, both from a single entity perspective (post.php theme) and listing (search.php, index.php). What I mean is: having something like Primo that allows visual management of such dynamic blocks and themes would be nice, so Editors can just play around with the result of their content calls (which the CMS handles…
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There was never a time when WordPress was the only easy way for even a non-technical person to create a blog, they just did a great job marketing that that was the case. I spent a very brief time as a contributor to WP internals (not core by any means but a handful of contributions) and not only do you need a lot of internal knowledge to do anything outside of point-and-click, like you said, a lot of the core folks h…
From a social standpoint, it was though. You could ask a lot of non-expert people for help on Wordpress and get it.
Hey HN, it’s been about three years since you sent my open source CMS, Primo, to the front page ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23820201 ), inspiring me to quit my cushy remote job at the height of the pandemic to work on it full-time (naive and impulsive, I agree). Life has been pretty interesting since then. I’ve burned through my savings, lost my primo.af domain name to the Taliban, and convinced my wife to…
Nice project! I was a bit disappointed that you need a supabase account for "self hosting it".. And this is supposed to work only on some hosting service that can connect to Supa base, and also it encourages to fetch your pages content from github.. So it's more a CMS to run with specific service providers rather than something you can actually self host.
How is this different from Strapi or Ghost?