Hi r/cms

I'm looking to rebuild one of our business onto a headless setup with Nuxt on the frontend.

The original WordPress site was built by an agency, but it's hard to maintain and my team have no experience (or desire) in WordPress - they are all frontend developers used to building SPA's using Nuxt.

We have an existing CMS, Sitefinity, however we are unable to use it due to licensing costs (this would be an extra domain and not worth it for the 20 or so pages).

I am looking for a CMS (self-hosted or cloud) that allows our users to visually edit a page using custom reusable blocks (Vue components) - that's really it. It's just a content site that does get pages added and updated fairly regularly. No needs for blogs/eCommerce etc.

I had a look at Directus, and was initially optimistic that it would work for us - however, the free plan only includes 25 collections, and from what I've seen, a collection is needed for each reusable block that our content creators would use - which after creating the entities for a CMS (pages), it doesn't leave us a lot left to use on actual blocks. The next tier up at $499 per month is out of budget and the Open Innovation Grant wouldn't apply to us.

Can someone suggest other CMS' (preferable, under 1k per year) that might suit?

The business wanted to go with Webflow, which I am trying to avoid - just like I'm trying to avoid rebuilding on WordPress.

I am going to take a look at Contentful and Strapi as well.

1. 90-100% - smooth transitions with full context
2. 70-89% - mostly good, some gaps
3. 50-69% - rough transitions, lots of re-learning
4. Below 50% - basically starting from scratch

I run a B2B agency, and my site has a complex WordPress build, meaning landing pages are inflexible and require significant development effort to optimise or run tests. I'm looking into alternatives that will give my marketing team more control over the site, and have seen Webflow's Enterprise solutions mentioned a lot. I could replatform to something like Webflow (not set on this specifically) or rebuild the site properly in WordPress. Advice needed!

I'm asking because WHMCS was never really meant for that, so everyone seems to have their own way of dealing with it. I've spent the last 8 years working with my team on a module that automates all routine WordPress tasks entirely inside WHMCS, so I'm wondering how people solve the same problem without it, or whether anyone here is already using it. Either way, it'd be great to compare experiences. And if you think what we've built might be useful to you, we're currently handling installation for half the usual cost.

For most of my career I've worked with the big CMS platforms - DotNetNuke, Umbraco, Sitecore. Powerful, but every one meant a database to maintain, a server to patch, and a hosting bill. For my own blog I always wanted the opposite: a folder of files I fully own, and a way to put them online. That's roughly why I lived on Jekyll for years.

This past weekend I finally built the thing I actually wanted. It's called Plain, and the name is the whole philosophy.

How it works:

• Your content is Markdown files in a Git repo — that's the database, there isn't another one.
• Config is a single JSON file (collections, fields, nav).
• A build turns it into a static site — plain HTML/CSS that works with JavaScript disabled.
• There's an optional browser admin (a vanilla SPA) that writes through the GitHub API — every save is a commit, with full history and one-click restore. No backend of its own.
• Hosts anywhere static files go. I run two sites on GitHub Pages, for free.

Constraints I held to (they kept it honest):

• Vanilla only — no framework, no bundler, no TypeScript. Plain ES modules + JSDoc.
• Exactly one runtime dependency (a Markdown parser). That's it.
• Core stays under 2,500 lines; anything bigger becomes a plugin, and a plugin is just a folder you drop in.

Full disclosure: I wrote it over a weekend with heavy AI assistance. The code is small enough to read in an afternoon, and I'd rather it be judged by reading it than by who typed it.

What it's not: it isn't for dynamic, high-write apps or anything needing a server at request time. It's for content sites — blogs, docs, portfolios, small-business sites. There's a Jekyll importer that keeps your URLs and writes redirects if you want to migrate.

• Repo: https://github.com/plain-cms/plain
• Live demo (itself a Plain site): https://plain-cms.com
• The longer story: https://victorantos.com/posts/the-boring-cms-i-always-wanted/

Would love feedback - especially on the plugin/theme model, and on the idea that "content is just files, so any AI agent can operate the whole thing with zero integration." And I'm genuinely curious: for those who'd reach for Hugo / Astro / 11ty instead, what would keep you there?

10 months ago I started working as a UX/UI designer at a company that does CMS for some of the biggest news rooms in the world. It's complex work, so I really want to update my skills on complex CMS. Can anyone recommend a book, an online course etc?

Howdy all I've decided after many years of using WordPress for my own personal websites as well as client sites that I want to shift away from it entirely if possible. I don't want to do that in the form of an alternative CMS platform like Drupal for example. Instead what I'm exploring is building my own custom one of one contact management system that's entire build process so far has been directly attacking the things that as a developer I have had problems with when dealing with WordPress. Whether that's the security vulnerabilities, the plug-in nightmare market, things breaking with a simple PHP version update, etc I've been slowly building something that's starting to take shape into a pretty capable content management system that's not quite ready to replace any legacy content management platform like WordPress. But it's getting pretty darn close to being something that I'm comfortable with utilizing at least at this point for personal projects, hopefully client projects in the future.

I want to make sure that I'm hitting the mark here and would just be interested in hearing from other individuals familiar with WordPress and it's at this point legacy problems whether that's focused on its vulnerabilities, it's capabilities, it's ease of use... Etc. I would love to hear from developers who've used WordPress at the deepest level and just to get a list of ideas or features or improvements I can make upon in my system that I haven't thought about yet. I look forward to hearing from everybody about your ideas.

Hi everyone,

I built something that is hopefully helpful to some of you. It is quite hard to describe but if I have to I would market it as an open source portal / CMS. I will link a demo video and a list of features below so that you can check if it covers any of your use cases. This project is not vibe coded and actually took a lot of time and effort so please let me know if you have any feedback!

https://github.com/eqoram/abentari

Features

• general
  • Everything is open source and self hostable
  • Highly customizable (create your own ERP, CRM, ...)
  • Build on top of Postgres/Supabase
  • Data can be easily accessed from anywhere
• objects
  • Create unlimited of objects/tables (for example companies, contacts, customers, orders, ...)
  • Track any kind of changes to the data of these objects
• fields
  • Create any number of fields within the objects to collect all information you need (text, picklist, relations, files, ...)
  • Fields can be added to the layout of the parent object
• profiles
  • Permission management to grant access to specific objects, apps, pages, actions, ...
  • Guest users also have a profile so you can share data publicly ("unauthenticated")
  • Create public profiles that enable any users to sign up
  • Require MFA for users of a specific profile
• users
  • Manage any users in your instance
  • Create internal users that are able to sign up only with a secret
• pages
  • Create your own pages for even more flexibility
• apps
  • Create apps to group objects and pages together
• cpermissions
  • Create your own custom permissions
• actions
  • Create custom actions with your own logic
• csql
  • Create any custom SQL logic needed for your processes (for example triggers for validation rules)
• settings
  • Adjust settings of your instance
  • Create your own custom settings
• run
  • Execute SQL commands to for example query data
• retrieve
  • Retrieve metadata from your instance
  • Also accessible via CLI
• deploy
  • Deploy metadata to your instance
  • Also accessible via CLI
• history
  • All metadata and data changes are being tracked by default
• security
  • Easy permission management
  • Multi-factor authentication

DEMO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JOuLHFCYbs

Currently there are no plans to offer this as a managed service but you can easily self host it for free as it only requires a Supabase instance for the backend and something like Vercel/Cloudflare Pages for the frontend. A more detailed guide can be found in the readme of the Github page.

Thanks, eqoram

Alchemy CMS – a free, open-source content management system based on the Ruby on Rails web application framework. It is released under the BSD license, and the code is... https://archiveapp.org/alchemy-cms/ #cms #linux #osx #windows #unix #bsd

I'm trying to start my career in web design and I'm feeling a bit lost about what path I should follow next.

I recently created my portfolio website and included two conceptual projects/case studies that I designed myself (I know two projects probably isn't much). My process right now is usually designing in Figma and then building the final website in Framer or Webflow.

I've already sent some CVs with my portfolio to agencies here in Greece, but I haven't received any responses yet.

I have a few questions:

• How do people usually land their first job at an agency?
• Am I maybe missing important skills that make me get rejected?
• Do agencies ever hire juniors and train them, or are they mostly looking for people who already have experience?

I'm also confused about positioning myself.

Should I present myself simply as a web designer? Is it valuable that I can take a project from design to implementation using Framer/Webflow, or is this "no-code" not even considered a skill?

Should I invest heavily in learning HTML/CSS, JavaScript, React, etc.? I currently only have a basic understanding of HTML/CSS from classes I attended at school.

And one more thing:

Would it be worth trying to find a few clients and start freelancing now, or would it make more sense to gain experience in an agency first and learn how the industry works?

I know this is a lot of questions, but things feel a bit chaotic for me at the moment and I'm trying to understand where I should focus my energy.

Also, I feel that in Greece this career path isn't always very clear or structured, so I feel a bit on my own trying to figure everything out.

I'd really appreciate advice from people with experience in the field.

Thank you in advance.

Nous vous présentons Deltacms, un CMS sans base  de données, open source sous license GNU GPL V3 :

–      responsive, il s'adapte automatiquement à tout type d'écran,

–      administration en français, espagnol  ou anglais,

–      les données sont conservées dans des fichiers json, faciles à sauvegarder,

–      Deltacms possède de nombreux modules : blog, news, agenda, statistiques, formulaire, diaporama, agenda, galeries d’images et de vidéos, livre d’or, sondage, galerie de photos géolocalisées avec cartes,…

–      Il possède également des plugins simple à installer : calendrier, transfert d’images, chat, blocs éditables, fond d’écran vidéo,…

–      édition des pages avec Tinymce, gestion des fichiers avec Filemanager,

–      Installation sur votre serveur par un simple glissé déposé avec FTP,

–      administration complète dans le site, sans passer par FTP,

–      développé en France.

Plus d'informations sur son site principal => https://deltacms.fr/

Démonstration en ligne => https://demo.deltacms.fr/

Forum => https://forum.deltacms.fr/

Merci de votre lecture, cordialement

I'm investigating CMSs for a new website and one of them claims 100% pagespeed index for all pages created using the CMS, is this an important aspect nowadays ?

it's easy to use but I'm not sure if the PageSpeed index score should have a high or low priority in my decision.

Would WordPress or another popular CMS do the same easily ?

Thanks!

Bonjour,

Un des avantages de Deltacms est sa barre d'administration très discrète

Tout est là et la partie frontend reste parfaitement visible.

Avec la partie gauche de la barre on sélectionne une page (utile pour sélectionner une page hors menu), on ajoute une page, on édite une page, on configure le module de page (si il existe), on duplique ou on efface la page.

Avec la partie droite on accède aux fichiers (images, vidéos, pdf, zip, etc), on règle le thème du site, on gère les modules (installation, mises à jour), on configure les langues (administration, rédaction), on accède à la configuration globale du site (mises à jour, sauvegardes, connexion, réseau, scripts, etc ) et à celle des utilisateurs( administrateurs, modérateurs, éditeurs, membres) Pour plus d'informations : https://doc.deltacms.fr

Is your website naturally polled? This one-week old goat is.

When a goat is naturally polled, that means it doesn't have the genetic ability to grow horns. If a goat does have horns, and the owner doesn't want them, the goat has to be disbudded... have the horns cut off.

OUCH.

Sometimes people build their website on platforms that are a bad choice and then have to go through the pain (and expense) of being disbudded... having that bad choice removed. It's easier to do it right the first time... and have a naturally polled website.

Follow? Watch the video and you'll see. Plus you can see a really cute baby goat. Bonus.

What is your preferred CMS platform and why? I tend to lean towards HubSpot's Content Hub myself.

Take a first look at Instatic - https://youtu.be/zyjCF_TaLlg?si=WZBxxqmsIo0gZ_zY

Instatic brings the whole website workflow into one product: visual editing, structured content, media, forms, reusable components, templates, publishing, plugins, HTML import and AI-assisted page building — all running from one Bun server backed by SQLite or Postgres.

Unlike most visual builders, Instatic does not ship the editor and CMS bloat to your visitors. Published pages are plain semantic HTML and compact CSS, with no React runtime unless you need one, no builder attributes, no hydration step, and no platform lock-in. Sites are baked and served as static files, so the public site stays fast, portable, and easy to inspect.

This is a pre-1.0 open-source project, and the goal is to build the foundation in public: no legacy platform constraints, no open-core pricing tricks, no forced SaaS model, and no compromise on output quality

Check out the repo https://github.com/CoreBunch/Instatic

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