If you want a static site, just use a static site, either raw or using a static site generator. Stay away from anything like wordpress unless you really need it. Static is fine for most things.
For a simple 4 or 5 page portfolio site:
Sitemagic is really nice, easy to use and maintain even for beginners. https://sitemagic.org/
You can create a 100 MB storage 1 site free account on Sitemagic (hosted on DO, Germany) and try it out. They have paid plans starting $ 1.99/month, but frankly I feel it is not for the LES crowd. I would subscribe to support the project.
@flips said:
There's a lot of stuff using Composer? (Laravel, Syphony being large players?) TXP is just plain PHP, no larger frameworks being pulled in?
Yes, I was digging around their web page to see if any frameworks etc was mentioned. I guess the graphic showing a stack of "TXP > HTML > CSS > JS" means there's no PHP frameworks in the mix. (I couldshould of course just check the code. I did install it though. Couldn't find my previous install from years back.)
Would you use any particular proxy/cache with TXP?
@flips said:
There's a lot of stuff using Composer? (Laravel, Syphony being large players?) TXP is just plain PHP, no larger frameworks being pulled in?
Yes, I was digging around their web page to see if any frameworks etc was mentioned. I guess the graphic showing a stack of "TXP > HTML > CSS > JS" means there's no PHP frameworks in the mix. (I couldshould of course just check the code. I did install it though. Couldn't find my previous install from years back.)
Would you use any particular proxy/cache with TXP?
aks_cache is great for partial caching, like caching just part of a rendered page; etc_cache lets you set a specific time attribute for how long you want it to stay cached. I'm more partial to etc_cache as I'm used to that authors' design, and am relatively trusting of the code.
Just grab the latest .txt file, and copy/paste the document into your Admin/Plugins textarea and click "Upload".
All I'm using myself is com_connect etc_date etc_pagination etc_cache pap_comconnect and a self-rebuit zem_ir function which is highly deprecated since HTML5, but I'm not going to fix nearly 20 years of legacy entries (started off as a personal project before I dumped it to straight RSS/XML 0.92 and imported it into TXP) just to dump a text image generator.
@WSS said:
Did you break down and move to something else yet?
Me or OP? I used TXP for some months, years ago. (I don't recall exactly what happened then, but might have been customer opting for WP. I think I kept the install for some time, can't remember deleting it, but probably did upon migration between shared hosts.)
So far just installed it again and haven't had much time to play with it yet. Did search a bit in plugins/addons, not all seemed too up to date. Should probably be conservative in adding extras ...
@WSS said:
Did you break down and move to something else yet?
Me or OP? I used TXP for some months, years ago. (I don't recall exactly what happened then, but might have been customer opting for WP. I think I kept the install for some time, can't remember deleting it, but probably did upon migration between shared hosts.)
So far just installed it again and haven't had much time to play with it yet. Did search a bit in plugins/addons, not all seemed too up to date. Should probably be conservative in adding extras ...
Most of the stuff for 4.0.x will still work, just give it a cursory glance and check the forum. They're quite helpful.
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Thanks guys, tried out the Textpattern 4.8 beta.
If you have an idler that you need to put to use and have 15 minutes to spare..
How to set up Textpattern on Debian10
https://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-setup-textpattern-cms-on-debian-10/
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My pronouns are like/subscribe.
If you want a static site, just use a static site, either raw or using a static site generator. Stay away from anything like wordpress unless you really need it. Static is fine for most things.
To complete the list of the road less travelled when it comes to CMS:
For documentation/manuals/How Tos
Grav Learn2 theme is good. https://demo.hibbittsdesign.org/grav-learn2-git-sync/
I am also impressed by Typemill. https://typemill.net/
For a simple 4 or 5 page portfolio site:
Sitemagic is really nice, easy to use and maintain even for beginners. https://sitemagic.org/
You can create a 100 MB storage 1 site free account on Sitemagic (hosted on DO, Germany) and try it out. They have paid plans starting $ 1.99/month, but frankly I feel it is not for the LES crowd. I would subscribe to support the project.
blog | exploring visually |
Yes, I was digging around their web page to see if any frameworks etc was mentioned. I guess the graphic showing a stack of "TXP > HTML > CSS > JS" means there's no PHP frameworks in the mix. (I couldshould of course just check the code. I did install it though. Couldn't find my previous install from years back.)
Would you use any particular proxy/cache with TXP?
aks_cache is great for partial caching, like caching just part of a rendered page; etc_cache lets you set a specific time attribute for how long you want it to stay cached. I'm more partial to etc_cache as I'm used to that authors' design, and am relatively trusting of the code.
https://github.com/etc-plugins/etc_cache/releases
Just grab the latest .txt file, and copy/paste the document into your Admin/Plugins textarea and click "Upload".
All I'm using myself is com_connect etc_date etc_pagination etc_cache pap_comconnect and a self-rebuit zem_ir function which is highly deprecated since HTML5, but I'm not going to fix nearly 20 years of legacy entries (started off as a personal project before I dumped it to straight RSS/XML 0.92 and imported it into TXP) just to dump a text image generator.
My pronouns are like/subscribe.
Did you break down and move to something else yet?
My pronouns are like/subscribe.
Me or OP?
I used TXP for some months, years ago. (I don't recall exactly what happened then, but might have been customer opting for WP. I think I kept the install for some time, can't remember deleting it, but probably did upon migration between shared hosts.)
So far just installed it again and haven't had much time to play with it yet. Did search a bit in plugins/addons, not all seemed too up to date. Should probably be conservative in adding extras ...
Most of the stuff for 4.0.x will still work, just give it a cursory glance and check the forum. They're quite helpful.
My pronouns are like/subscribe.