This incredible! I've worked with WordPress for a long time and have been tinkering with Svelte recently.
This is what I was looking for! Mad props to you for putting the effort into building this.
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#42This incredible! I've worked with WordPress for a long time and have been tinkering with Svelte recently. This is what I was looking for! Mad props to you for putting the effort into building this.
Thanks so much! Would love to hear how it works for you & help where I can. Lots still to come :)
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#43I 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.
Definitely possible in the future, although to keep the project focused I'd imagine using a plugin or fetching that content from a separate CMS tailor-made for that kind of content would be ideal.
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#44Y'all remember Macromedia Dreamweaver?
Nothing against this particular project, but how many times are we going to recreate a wysiwyg cms. There must be hundreds at this point.
Re: Show HN: Primo – a visual CMS with Svelte blocks, a code editor, and SSG
#45Y'all remember Macromedia Dreamweaver? Nothing against this particular project, but how many times are we going to recreate a wysiwyg cms. There must be hundreds at this point.
Totally understand the interpretation, but if you take a closer look I think you'll find Primo is actually the opposite. Site builders like Dreamweaver, Squarespace, Wix, Webflow, Weebly, etc. (and even WordPress now) replace code with visual controls - bridging the gap between users and their websites, but also putting up a wall that keeps them from modifying the code directly (or at best, applying some custom CSS on top of it). Primo, on the other hand, bridges the gap directly to the code, which means the interface doesn't get bogged down by toggles, sliders, and color pickers and users are never limited to just the subset of the underlying platform pre-ordained by whoever built the tool. That's the beauty of code, and it's what excites me most about Primo - that people who would otherwise think code was outside of their reach would realize it's actually something they'd be good at and enjoy.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's exactly what I mean. They did a great job making people think that if you wanted a blog and weren't a programmer, WP was your only choice.
Ok I will bite. What was an alternative to WordPress especially back then that actually was as easy to use as WP AND had the ecosystem of plugins that WP has. Focus on non technical users only who have no idea how to write code.
The main competitor was Movable Type.
I recall there being several other also-rans, but am having trouble recalling names.
Re: Show HN: Primo – a visual CMS with Svelte blocks, a code editor, and SSG
#48Hey 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…
Would love to see this where blocks are standard web components and use native encapsulation!
Re: Show HN: Primo – a visual CMS with Svelte blocks, a code editor, and SSG
#49Y'all remember Macromedia Dreamweaver? Nothing against this particular project, but how many times are we going to recreate a wysiwyg cms. There must be hundreds at this point.
Totally understand the interpretation, but if you take a closer look I think you'll find Primo is actually the opposite. Site builders like Dreamweaver, Squarespace, Wix, Webflow, Weebly, etc. (and even WordPress now) replace code with visual controls - bridging the gap between users and their websites, but also putting up a wall that keeps them from modifying the code directly (or at best, applying some custom CSS o…
Primo is not the opposite. From the primo site, the 3 main bullet points
- Drag-n-drop page building
> Build your site's pages by dragging and dropping your directly blocks onto the page, unencumbered by overwhelming design options.
- Visual content editing
> Update your text, images, and links directly on the page or open up the Fields view to manage your content from a structured view.
- Integrated development
> Access each block's code with a click - right from your browser. And since each block is a Svelte component, there's no limit to what you can make.
That is functionality that existed in Dreamweaver since ~2000[1]
- Quick Tag Editor
> Bring the HTML source directly into the visual design environment. Use a keyboard shortcut to quickly access and modify HTML tags around the selected object on the page.
- HTML styles and cascading style sheets
> Dreamweaver styles give you desktop-publishing-level control over the text in your Web site. Quickly apply combinations of character and paragraph styles to text with the new HTML Style palette. Easily configure character and paragraph level styles for a site and share them with the entire development team with cascading style sheets. The choice between HTML styles or CSS styles gives you unparalled flexibility and control.
- HTML Inspector
> Roundtrip HTML lets you visually design your Web site without sacrificing control over HTML source. The HTML inspector gives you total visibility and access to HTML source. Edit, drag and drop, or copy and paste directly in the HTML inspector (which now displays line numbers).
1.https://web.archive.org/web/20001012150931/http://macromedia...
Regardless of the dreamweaver comparison, please explain how this is different, or as you said, the opposite, from any other site builder out there?
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#50One of your themes shows an “email subscribe” field like one might expect for a blog with a newsletter. Does this have a concept of email subscribers and management related to such? Does this support transactional/batch emailing?
Ghost has this functionality and is used by many https://ghost.org/