Re:A case for something, anything more simple than WordPress
by Terretta on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @02:55PM
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If you don't like WordPress[1], and don't want your authors/editors to have to know any programming, but you do want fast cheap and easily hackable PHP for the CMS itself, consider a free open source alternative called TextPattern:
The separation of editing and design roles in the admin is worthwhile as well.
// 1. Having built and hosted multiple WP sites scaling to millions of uniques a day, and even having built and managed a WP install for the most notorious domain name in the world, I have to say I don't advise it for most cases.
http://textpattern.com
It has good documentation:
http://www.textpattern.net/wiki/index.php?title=Index
And an ecosystem of plugins:
http://textpattern.org
The separation of editing and design roles in the admin is worthwhile as well.
// 1. Having built and hosted multiple WP sites scaling to millions of uniques a day, and even having built and managed a WP install for the most notorious domain name in the world, I have to say I don't advise it for most cases.