I want to get rid of WordPress. I'm tired of it's sluggishness and bloated nature. I like Markdown, and I like being able to write my own HTML and JavaScript into the blog posts, and for the base "theme" of the site. Does anyone know of any alternatives to WordPress that are less quirky and weird? I looked at AnchorCMS, and it works, but it seems a little too unfinished to be a "real" replacement for WordPress.
I really love TextPattern. It's awesome. I'm not sure if it's something you'd like or not since it's not a blog-specific CMS, but certainly still allows for it. It might be more than what you need though (meaning more complicated), since it is designed to work for whole websites, not just simple blogs.
I don't know how wordpress got popular for anything except blogs. I guess it's just that people are ignorant and I guess also a bit dumb and lazy.
I tried Drupal once but I didn't like it at all. I don't understand what the big fuss about it is either.
That looks like a good option, but the interface could use a redo...lol
Certainly will consider it. How do you write themes? I don't know PHP yet, so if there's a simple templating language I can learn instead of having to know PHP (like with WordPress) that would be a great feature.
Don't really need to know too much PHP, mostly just like the PHP include, which should be easy to use without really knowing any PHP code.
Anybody have any experience with Grav? I just found it on Google and it looks really powerful, and I like the idea of no database (if I ever drop my shared hosting and start using GitHub pages, I'm not totally screwed) but it also has an optional Admin Interface plugin that makes things convenient. Can anyone confirm/deny that Grav is stable/good?
werc.cat-v.org
for something different