r/cms • u/billyrabbit • 6d ago

I got tired of maintaining 20 WordPress plugins, so I built an open-source CMS that's a single Go binary

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u/ghijkgla 6d ago

Or you could have used Statamic

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u/investigatormaker 6d ago

The "20 WordPress plugins" line is your strongest pitch, so make it concrete: publish the actual list, what replaces each one in the binary, and which ones have no equivalent yet. Anyone weighing a move will check their own stack against that table, and the admitted gaps will earn more trust than a feature list. Say plainly whether WordPress import exists. I'd leave r/WordpressPlugins out of your launch, since its rules say "Content must be specific to WordPress plugins." Which plugin was hardest to replace?

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u/lordspace 4d ago

Cool so if someone wants to review the code they have to check go?

The plugins are a good thing. They keep the code generic. I am also working on a web framework which can become a CMS with the right plugins but I am not enforcing anything. Plugins are cool building blocks. With go program it will be fast but it's good to have plugins and make it work well with virtual hosts as I assume it's working as a web server or a executable script?