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| * PivotX CMS: https://github.com/pivotx A nice flat-file CMS that I have been using since 2016. Active development [[https://web.archive.org/web/20210923190203/http://blog.pivotx.net/2017-03-22/pivotx-development-has-ended | ended in 2017]] but it has been in maintenance mode, and honestly still works quite well. Supports multiple admin users and editors, has lots of (dated, but nice) templates for your site. | * PivotX CMS: https://github.com/pivotx A nice flat-file CMS that I have been using since 2016. Active development [[https://web.archive.org/web/20210923190203/http://blog.pivotx.net/2017-03-22/pivotx-development-has-ended | ended in 2017]] but it has been in maintenance mode, and honestly still works quite well. Supports multiple admin users and editors, has lots of (dated, but nice) templates for your site. |
| * Wikis | * Wikis |
| * DokuWiki: https://dokuwiki.org Used at SDF, right here on this wiki [[start]], and is the front page of https://sdfeu.org It's a fine wiki, easy configuration, re-skinning and extension-adding using the UI Configuration Manager. Has many cool skins, and several decent Responsive Design skins that look good. Has editing buttons to make it so you don't need to know the markup well to use, but also the markup is pretty standardish. | * DokuWiki: https://dokuwiki.org Used at SDF, right here on this wiki [[start]], and is the front page of https://sdfeu.org It's a great, full-featured wiki, with easy configuration, re-skinning and extension-adding using the UI Configuration Manager. Has many cool skins, and several decent Responsive Design skins that look good, and you can make it look not like a wiki with some skins. Has editing buttons to make it so you don't need to know the markup well to use, but also the markup is pretty standardish. |
| * PmWiki: https://pmwiki.org super low resources (only 5MB on disk!), easy to extend with cookbooks. Lots of skins, but just a handful of Responsive Design skins. Configuration,skinning and extension requires copying files and editing a config file in shell. Easy to turn WikiWords back on so it can be a classic quick-to-author wiki experience. Can use Creole markup vs the default, note that pmwiki's native markup is very old school (! and !! for headings, vs <nowiki>==</nowiki>) and likely not what you're used to, but you can turn on editing buttons like dokuwiki has by default, too. | * PmWiki: https://pmwiki.org Also a fully featured wiki, but with much lower default resources (only 5MB on disk!) for all you really need, and easy to extend with cookbooks. Lots of skins, but just a handful of Responsive Design skins. Configuration, skinning and extension requires copying files and editing a config file in shell. Easy to turn WikiWords back on so it can be a classic quick-to-author wiki experience. Can use Creole markup vs the default, note that pmwiki's native markup is very old school (! and !! for headings, vs <nowiki>==</nowiki>) and likely not what you're used to, but you can turn on editing buttons like dokuwiki has by default, too. People say it's very easy to make skins for PmWiki. |
| * BrutalWiki: https://felix.plesoianu.ro/web/brutal/ (only 40K on disk!?) A simple yet nice looking wiki, super easy to set up with its configuration file, uses a single JSON file for storage of the wiki. You can find all sorts of personal wiki projects online, but this one has an interesting markup language that uses "rocket links" like in the gemini protocol and yet is very powerful (nested lists, etc). You can turn on passwords for editing, so it has most features you might want (besides versioning). You can definitely use it to get a site going quickly. Even has a couple of skins with it that are nice. | * BrutalWiki: https://felix.plesoianu.ro/web/brutal/ (only 40K on disk!?) Much, much smaller here. A simple yet nice looking wiki, super easy to set up with its configuration file, uses a single JSON file for storage of the wiki. You can find all sorts of personal wiki projects online, but this one has an interesting markup language that uses "rocket links" like in the [[https://geminiprotocol.net/docs/gemtext.gmi|gemini protocol]] and yet is decently featureful (nested lists, etc). You can turn on a single password for editing, so it has most features you might want (besides versioning). You can definitely use it to get a nice site going quickly. Even has a couple of skins with it that are nice, and with its Brutalist design principles and a viewport config setting, will basically give you Responsive Design. It's not really extensible, if you want that, though source code is available for forking. Here's a [[https://peteyboy.freeshell.org/bwiki/ | demo running on SDF]] |
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| ==== CMS and Wiki Options That Only Require USER Membership ==== | ==== CMS and Wiki Options That Only Require USER Membership ==== |
