Content Management and Wikis that you can use here at SDF

There are many, many tools available for managing content these days, however, in this modern era of individual VPSs and virtual environments like Docker, most new tools are not set up to be implementable by users in a classic public shared server environment, such as we prize here at SDF. Instead, many tools assume that the user is admin on the web server that they want to install a CMS or Wiki, and can control custom configurations.

I have tried several freely available Content Management System (CMS) and wiki packages, and have determined the following ones can be installed in your user html space and work, as long as you have at least an ARPA membership. Each has certain strengths and weakenesses, and some are designed to be more multi-user, allowing you to have individual contributors that don't need SDF shell accounts. All are designed to allow you to create content from the website itself, not requiring you to log in to your shell account to add or modify content, and to give you an interface that doesn't require you to author content directly in HTML, and to give you templates to give your web site a cohesive look.

The packages listed here also use the regular file system for storage, so an SDF DBA membership is not required for them to work. There are even more CMSs and wikis, not listed below (Drupal, for example) that do require a database.

• Content Management Systems (CMS)
  • Typesetter CMS: https://github.com/Typesetter/Typesetter Very nice, multi-user, great UI for page design, cool templates. It used to have its own website, but that looks to be abandoned, leaving the github page. You may need look at the PHP 5.1 update fork…
  • GetSimple CMS: https://getsimple-ce.ovh/ Very straightforward. Single admin user. Looks bulletproof
  • Flatpress CMS: https://www.flatpress.org/ A flat-file verison of wordpress that you can set up in your own web folder! Fewer features, but fully yours to control. You can use BBCode as markup, or Markdown via plugins if you like. Many templates for your site. Single admin user, though.
• 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.
  • PmWiki: https://pmwiki.org super low resources, easy to extend with cookbooks. Lots of skins, but just a handful of Responsive Design skins. 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 ==) and likely not what you're used to, but you can turn on editing buttons like dokuwiki has by default, too.