Future of the dot

Mark Constable admin at renta.net
Sun Apr 5 01:38:31 BST 2020


On 5/4/20 6:01 am, Carl Schwan wrote:
> I'm currently investigating using Netify CMS as it would allow
> editing the content in a CMS but save the content in git and use all
> the current tooling I made for theming. The best of both worlds :-)

This plugin can export a static snapshot direct to Github...

https://wordpress.org/plugins/static-html-output-plugin/

The live Wordpress site used to design multiple other sites does not
have to be exposed to the public internet.

> You probably already noticed I'm not a fan of Wordpress and Drupal.

Wordpress is not the ogre it used to be. It's come a long way in the
last 5 or so years.

> I don't think Wordpress is a solution, it could probably work for the
> dot, but won't for other more complex websites like kde.org.

I can't imagine any scenario where the Advanced Custom Fields plugin
(or Pods) could not provide maximum functionality and at worst a
custom plugin could fill in any gaps.

> And I think in this case it would be better to use the same
> technology for everything.

If you mean by generally exporting HTML/CSS/JS pages from Github then
Wordpress + WP2Static can fit right in.

> I also already build an infrastructure for consistent theming used in
> now more than 15 KDE websites and wouldn't want to use something
> radically different for creating a website theme.

And here we a situation where only you and very few others would ever
have the skills needed to design and manage all of those sites. My
point about using some "standard" system like Wordpress is that it
opens up the design and management process to a lot more contributors.

> I also had a bad experience in the past with Wordpress so it is
> possible that this is influencing my judgment. ;-)
Same here. I hated it (and Drupal) for a decade and wouldn't touch it
but it got to the point that I needed a single reasonably simple and
well supported web infrastructure that would run on 90+% of all web
servers out there so Wordpress (reluctantly) got the gong. Everything
else is just too obscure or only suitable for niche deployments.

FWIW.

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