Comment by Gigachad
6 hours ago
The problem is no one ever built one that works for normal people.
Most Wordpress sites are not operated by programmers, they are run by non technical people who just want a wysiwyg editor and a save button. While static site builders ask you to write markdown files, compile the result, upload it to a server, and if you want to collaborate you have to add git to that.
There almost needs to be an admin app which presents a Wordpress admin like ui but has no public exposure, and then it compiles the site to dump on s3 for the production. But as far as I’m aware no one has built this.
Movable type was the most popular blogging software in 2003 and it was essentially this. An admin app written in Perl that spit out static files.
It is kind of surprising that no one tried to do an updated version.
> The problem is no one ever built one that works for normal people.
https://getpublii.com/
Yes, you are right and I agree, there's little empathy with non-coders generally.
https://jamstack.org
You're describing the Jamstack or headless CMS concept verbatim.
Is this not it? https://pagescms.org/
Pour one out for FrontPage
Ahhh the old positioning with
I fixed so many sites back in the day by people who thought they knew what they were doing.
City Desk. Where is Joel when we need him!
Retired and probably just chilling around the world.
If I wasn't making 5 other things right now I'd consider making something like city desk. Every other day there are complaints about bots smashing peoples servers. Perhaps its time for a better static site generator.
I mean, github pages using the github editor to edit docs pretty much fits that bill
not for "run by non technical people who just want a wysiwyg editor and a save button"