Checkout https://textpattern.com/ – its development started around the same time as WordPress, and still continues. Even though it didn’t reach WordPress’ success, I’ve always felt that TextPattern is better coded than WordPress.

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5 months ago

Depends on the need…I have a quick LibreOffice HTML template in light or dark. I include metas for mobile use in the document properties. I also have a PHP controller that can easily modify these if I need it to be more dynamic. Otherwise I use https://picocss.com/ for some things. For publishing I either drop the HTML file in a folder with or without a controller, or start a new endpoint by creating a new…

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over 2 years ago

Textile was the driving markup behind Textpattern (https://textpattern.com/), one of the better publishing/CMS tools out there on PHP. It had a nice object oriented approach that was less painful than WordPress, and gave great flexibility to design aspects in ways that were easier to work with than WordPress… But WordPress won the popular marketshare, and TP was relegated to some diehards. Those diehards still…

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over 2 years ago

Wordpress made a great impact on the net, and I was happy when clients liked its ease of use and relieved from the burden of making content changes. (Though, I’ve always felt that https://textpattern.com/ was more secure and better than WordPress).

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over 3 years ago