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WordPress is a cms first and foremost. edit: lol today I learned cms != blog
No. WordPress is a blogging platform. A CMS is much more than that. If you need a CMS you probably want something more than WordPress.
Can you explain?
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No. WordPress is a blogging platform. A CMS is much more than that. If you need a CMS you probably want something more than WordPress.
Have you used it recently? What you say was true 10 years ago, but what features does it lack compared to a "true" CMS today? I've built several high-traffic e-commerce sites using it, none of them had a blog. Compared to something like Drupal it's a total pleasure to use.
WordPress has the ability for pages as well as posts (along with versioning of those items). User account management with permissions. Custom fields. What exactly does "true CMS" mean?
And I'd argue the easiest-to-use admin area out there, or so my clients lead me to believe.
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No. WordPress is a blogging platform. A CMS is much more than that. If you need a CMS you probably want something more than WordPress.
Have you used it recently? What you say was true 10 years ago, but what features does it lack compared to a "true" CMS today? I've built several high-traffic e-commerce sites using it, none of them had a blog. Compared to something like Drupal it's a total pleasure to use.
I started separating the admin from the "theme" by using the wordpress rest api (admin running in a subdomain). While this might seem overkill at first but I find that there's a lot less documentation to read and I can reuse a lot more code from other projects without any changes.
I started separating the admin from the "theme" by using the wordpress rest api (admin running in a subdomain). While this might seem overkill at first but I find that there's a lot less documentation to read and I can reuse a lot more code from other projects without any changes.
Most of my WP sites don't do a lot. Can you use the rest API to handle the contact form and search? that was I could just use a static generation from wp itself. The wp admin wouldn't even need to be publically accessible then.
Contact form 7's latest build has them using their own API - but it's still undocumented.
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What's your recommendation for an open-source CMS? Preferably one with relatively simple administration that a layman (client) could still comprehend. cc @tyingq, @zaphar, @bybjorn, @dangerface
I like Craft CMS[0]. It's very flexible and developer friendly. Great for custom site builds. [0]: https://craftcms.com/
I don't do much WP dev anymore (thankfully moved to using Rails, Go and Node), but when I do I usually use that old project for deployment. I'll be sure to check this out, as the services architecture looks like a nice change of pace. I tried Bedrock/Sage in the past, but it was just too much for me and made some things harder than they should be.
Added links to my old projects below in case anybody is curious,
[0]: https://github.com/themejuice/tj (CLI) [1]: https://github.com/themejuice/sprout (theme)
I keep seeing these projects to make wordpress work more like a cms and I keep thinking why not just use a cms?
It's simple, non-tech admin staff are familiar with the interface (and can be easily trained), there's a vast ecosystem of plugins and integrations for it, it's easy to hire people or teams who have experience working with it. WP has its flaws and an upper limit to what it's capable of, but it's often a very pragmatic choice for small to medium sized content-driven websites.
I keep seeing these projects to make wordpress work more like a cms and I keep thinking why not just use a cms?
What's your recommendation for an open-source CMS? Preferably one with relatively simple administration that a layman (client) could still comprehend. cc @tyingq, @zaphar, @bybjorn, @dangerface
Check out the sites which are made with wagtail at madewithwagtail.org
cheers, ralph
I keep seeing these projects to make wordpress work more like a cms and I keep thinking why not just use a cms?
What's your recommendation for an open-source CMS? Preferably one with relatively simple administration that a layman (client) could still comprehend. cc @tyingq, @zaphar, @bybjorn, @dangerface
You can read more about the project here - https://www.laktek.com/2016/11/29/introducing-pragma/. We'll be sending out more beta invites in the next couple of weeks.