Another Blog CMS
I haven't written anything here in a bit, and it's again because I've been fighting the tools.
I've gone through and converted this blog to use the Grav CMS, with a heavily-modified version of the Hypertext theme. I like it a lot more than previous attempts:
- My first, from-scratch, git-based CMS. It did exactly what I told it to do, which was great but also sometimes a problem. Not having a web backend stunk.
- The second, Automad-based system. Automad is great. But I couldn't bend the theming system to my will, and persistent permissions issues on the server prevented me from really using it. Likely PEBKAC but I couldn't get it to work.
This system feels better. Grav uses the Twig templating engine, and as I've made edits to the theme, I find myself filling the site with little curly braces. It's odd to have Twig get processed down to php, which then generates the actual html. You'd think it's not super efficient, but Grav also implements decent cacheing, so it works out all right.
I really hope this one works out. My other options are less desirable. There's always old reliable.