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Can anyone recommend an alternative to Grav? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi,

I've selfhosted Grav for two years going to three, but I want to move on to something else. I am looking for a flatfile CMS. I have experimented a bit and the best I found so far is Automad, but it isn't quite there. What alternatives can you recommend? PHP is where I am leaning.

Thanks.

Edit: Given my unclear query, I have struggled themeing. It has always been a pain and for whatever reason, documenting is somewhat unclear.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

After using GitHub Pages (Jekyll) and some experiments with GRAV and Serendipity/S9Y, I’ve ended up with WordPress on SQLite for my blog as it provides everything a proper blog needs: RSS, comments, trackback/pingback, spam filter and ActivityPub/Fediverse integration.

But for a CMS without any social aspect I’d probably use GRAV and make it work somehow.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This seems to be the way. Panel beating Grav. Dang. Wish it were more friendly, but still much respect to the development team.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

From a technical standpoint, I still have some admiration for ProcessWire which is basically just the backend of a CMS and requires you to code the frontend. It has a great API and is awesome to build websites with. Just create your HTML and insert the PHP snippets wherever you need some dynamic info.

However, it requires a fully fledged database which is what I'm trying to avoid with most of my projects.