I'm curious as to what the developers around here prefer for their blogging platform or content management system?
Lately, I've been digging into and experimenting with OctoberCMS which is based on the Laravel PHP framework. October has a beautiful backend, a decent amount of plugins, and integrating themes is probably the easiest I've ever dealt with as far as CMS's go.
I still use WordPress for most of the projects I do though. Most clients are familiar with it or know about it and request it due to it's popularity. I haven't been a fan of WordPress since the old days back in like 2011 and pre-2011.
So, yeah, just curious. What do you guys prefer to use and are there any that you have been experimenting with and like? I'm always looking for new software to play with!
The last time I worked with a CMS, I was building custom ones on top of static site generators. Being able to use and automate something like jekyll makes for a super scalable site. It's been years since I worked with a CMS, I'm hoping they've come a long way hah.
October looked promising, I never did have a reason to use it though. Laravel was always a solid framework in the 3/4 days so I imagine it's a good choice.
I've been wordpress free for uh, 5 years now :D
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What language/framework do you use? @jesta
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A lot of the work I was doing in my CMS era was PHP, and a mix of Laravel for frontends and Phalcon for APIs.
These days I've moved from PHP, and am using python/flask for APIs, python for microservices, and reactjs for frontends.
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Thanks for the upvote @jesta. Trying to build up my steem profile and that helps a ton.
What is Jekyll?
I wish I could be Word press free but unfortunately some people just demand it.
I'm trying to get my coding chops up enough to learn to develop my own web software. I just am not too good at php yet and I'm unsure of whether to get deeper into php or if I should just work on learning a framework like Laravel?
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This is jekyll:
https://jekyllrb.com/
It's a static site generator that you can run to output a blog.
Totally understand needing to brush up on skills before building your own - I'd definitely learn a framework or two like Laravel, which in turn should teach you more about PHP itself. You'll hopefully gain a good grasp on OOP and the MVC/R patterns working in those frameworks, and those skills will apply much further than just Laravel :)
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Wordpress - because most people want a CMS so they can upload pictures, change text easily without code. I personally prefer Joomla because it gives you way more freedom. I really love Jekyll for building static sites and would always choose it if I can. Ruby on Rails for Web Applications because it makes MVC so easy. Learning Angular at the moment.
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I just use Jekyll. I used PHP/Wordpress in the past, then Tumblr and other hosted solutions, but damn, Jekyll and other static-site-compilers are so fast. You can literally just buy a $5 cheap ass VPS and put infinite websites on it.
Unlike Wordpress, which even with all those super optimized all-in-one-mega-cache plugins will be slow as hell in comparison.
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I find wordpress and most CMS quite of an overkill for what they are trying to do. I mean, just to deliver some contents you have a full MySQL, php, server side applications... I'm all for static websites, unless really needed.
Personally I use Pelican, as I am comfortable with python and I love the Jinja theme engine. I've used wordpress for a while, mostly for work as customers wanted it, but it's a damn mess, and getting a host is more expansive. For a static website you can just use github =D
For more complex websites I like to use Drupal, but that is bordering with an internet app. It can make powerful stuff in a very short amount of time though.
As a wiki I found dokuwiki a good engine and it can sometimes make it a nice website builder... way more sleek than wordpress, and without any SQL involved, just plain text files.
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