Simple Blog

wblz

Hello everyone,
has anyone recently tried and / or designed a simple Php or JS Blog with administration panel, very light that might be alternative to the usual wordpress?

Pollux

I use Grav, and I like it.

Here are some more.

widora_io

Pollux Have you integrated the grav into the flarum?

Pollux

widora_io

No, I haven't. I use it for a static site.

Prosperous

I have used Ghost before and intend on using it again. It's still in beta stages I'm pretty sure but the software suits my needs perfectly and is quite powerful already. Definitely work checking out for your general blog use, it has been used on major sites already and the comments are constantly positive overall.

You will need Node.js, Ember.js and Handlebars to run it successfully though. You will not be able to run Ghost on any hosting service so please consult your provider beforehand.

wblz

Tnx y'all

I asked this question, to escape the WP monotony now, where I've turned everything and changed everything. On the one hand I can see their continuous development, on the other hand I see only an increase in files and they need more RAM.
Also recently I tried to move my WP in Nginx db with a negative result.
There are too many changes to Templates and .htaccess files and for this I would like to start expanding development prospects by orienting me to other cms.

The beginning is just one blog to devote to one of my passions, Fly Fishing

Pollux

wblz The beginning is just one blog to devote to one of my passions, Fly Fishing

This is a perfect use case for a flat file CMS.

You don't need a database to handle a few hundred pages. When it comes to hundreds of thousends of pages, things will look different, but 99.9% of all WP sites will never reach that volume, so using a databse makes things unnecessarily complicated i.m.h.o.

Prosperous

wblz Have a read of this comparison that the developers at Ghost wrote.

wblz

Pollux you can give me your blog link to see how you are using it?

Pollux

Have a look here:

https://discourse.getgrav.org/t/sample-grav-sites/3263
https://discourse.getgrav.org/t/sample-grav-sites-part-ii/4824

wblz

Pollux

I did some tests with Grav and I noticed that installing many themes always causes the same error, and if you install the same from the Skeleton package it all works. Is that so or am I rusty?

wblz

I really like the html output, beautifully clean ?

wblz

Prosperous
of course ?

M3lvin

Hi there !

There's absolutely no need of server compute when it comes to personal blog or so. Ghost looks like a nice alternative to Wordpress, however I think you should definitely take a look at static site generators such as Hugo, Jekyll and alike.

What you win :

performance (you can't beat static files directly delivered to your browser when you're free from the hassle of server side compute, + it's pretty simple to add a CDN layer on top of that and since you're all static...well...everything can be cached ?).
security : again, no database and no server side code at all...
less costly : You can host static website on solutions such as AWS S3 (Azure also has its own blob stuff to do that) and it's really cheap as it's only storage that you pay (and bandwidth, but you'd have to drive some crazy trafic to start feeling it costly - knowing that you can delegate that bandwidth to the edge CDN instead of your origin servers or buckets, it's definitely a win situation).

Some demo example : a quick blog I built using Hugo to test the S3 website storage :
http://loneworg.com/ (total cost : $1.3 / month, and how fast was it when it loaded ? Note : it's a bucket hosted in Ireland - but I could distribute it to other regions as well)

And static does not mean your site will not be dynamic (just means that everything is client-side). You can have comments integrated through third-party plugins like Disqus on my demo above. Feel a difference with wordpress ?

So where's the catch ?

What you lose :

The back-end and WYSIWYG. Most of these static gen use markdown for post editing. It's a bit tedious if you're not use to it. However you may find some options here and there that will offer you an easier way for editing (like with the netlify cms for instance, or forestry.io from what I remeber ).
Much less themes/template choices for now. Gallery for Jekyll is ok and Hugo / Hexo ones are growing as well, but you won't have the incredible plethora of templates you may find with Wordpress : meaning probably more HTML/CSS customization needed from you.

wblz

M3lvin ok M3 tnx ?

JasonLABS

Meow Yeah, I am currently looking into solutions for having Flarum deeply integrated as the community for a full website.

M3lvin You can have comments integrated through third-party plugins like Disqus on my demo above. Feel a difference with wordpress ?

I am totally with you up to this point of third-party plugins. I don't feel comfortable giving control of my entire community interaction to a third party. I've been burned before.

The Coral Project looks very interesting to me. It has integrated many awesome features of healthy communities, and you are in full control over the content of your community. However setting this up on a server does not seem too simple as a plug-n-play solution.

Pollux

It's a while ago that I installed grav and cloned one of their themes. I don't remember having such problems.

But I suggest to report your problems within grav's own community.

Meow

I wonder if there is any extension that can make a Flarum forum look like a blog.