Are lightweight CMS still around?
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Way back in the day, I used Wolf CMS, which was a fork of Frog CMS. It did require a database but was very lightweight, much more so than WordPress. You had to create your own templates, which then became models for your site's pages. There was no templating language; it was just PHP. Wolf CMS is still around but only because the internet never forgets. Now that I go to look, all I seem to find are the big CMS, like WordPress, Drupal, Django, etc. and a few tiny ones that use text files and no actual database. Did all the rest die off, like all the word-processing apps that died off when Microsoft released Word?
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Way back in the day, I used Wolf CMS, which was a fork of Frog CMS. It did require a database but was very lightweight, much more so than WordPress. You had to create your own templates, which then became models for your site's pages. There was no templating language; it was just PHP. Wolf CMS is still around but only because the internet never forgets. Now that I go to look, all I seem to find are the big CMS, like WordPress, Drupal, Django, etc. and a few tiny ones that use text files and no actual database. Did all the rest die off, like all the word-processing apps that died off when Microsoft released Word?
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Ok, it seems the answer is no. There are a few headless CMSs out there, but it seems it's a WordPress world now. Remember when there were half a dozen word processing applications to choose from? :)
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Unfortunately the Wordpress took almoust all the CMS market. These are 3 of the headless CMS out there: Magnolia, Netlify and Contentful with Gatsby