Best CMS?

SJN

Preferable something as modern and lightweight as Flarum, but do existing integrations exist with any CMS offerings? Out of interest is flarum.org using any particular software or is it bespoke?

420forum

There are plenty of great open-source CMS software options, including Django, WordPress, Ghost, Drupal, Joomla, and more.

SJN

420forum Understood, but in terms of extensions/integrations does Flarum support anything well already?

Oshvam

SJN WordPress is, due to its extensibility, the best for integrating with Flarum. I am working on an integration so that all my WordPress posts are published on the forum. Before being published, they will go through the Mistral API, which will summarise them and include a link to the blog post.

Later on, I want to link the blog posts to the Flarum comments so that the comments are injected into the blog.

SJN

Oshvam Understood, there's also a premium wordpress extension already for Flarum. Still interested to hear what Flarum.org uses though, considering it doesn't appear to have SSO etc.

clarkwinkelmann

SJN I believe Flarum.org is a custom Laravel app. @luceos should be able to confirm.

There's (intentionally) no integration between the main site and the forum, so it's not an example of how Flarum could be integrated.

iorGian

Hi @SJN
I don't know what exactly are you looking. mybe you should take a look at Hexo, Nextra and Grav. There are more and almost similar like VuePress and VitePress but in my opinion i choose one of those 3 above.

Hope helped, cheers!
Georgian Iordache, iorGian

010101

I hate to be obvious or a broken record, but I'll probably always push WordPress. I've used a lot of different CMS, or frameworks. WordPress has been modernizing. It's gone through a phase where people put it down. Say it's slow. Old school. You name it. But, it's not. It's a PHP CMS.

Since it has been around so long, you'll find examples around how to do anything with it.

With WordPress, I've built blogs, landing pages, odd apps, and full social networks. This year I starting builting a small Applicant Tracking System with it. Because again, it's PHP/HTML/JS/CSS and incredibly easy to extend.

It's only slow if you add the wrong plugins.

It's only not secure, if you add the wrong plugins.

It's only not "modern," if you add the wrong plugins/theme.

And no, I've never worked for them; I don't know anyone who works for them. I've just deeply experienced what it can do.

Search the web for Flarum/WordPress extension. There are a couple, or so. I do wish there were more. It's on my "maybe one day" roadmap to build another Flarum/WordPress extension.

Tip: Using a minimal CSS framework like water.css gets you pretty close to Flarum's look, quickly.

Silvestrus

Flarum blog extension is pretty good as it is. SEO friendly. It needs some polishing but I publish blog articles on daily basis and it works just fine. Love integration with Flarum - comment section.