{"id":6507,"date":"2015-02-01T14:10:09","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T13:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/?p=6507"},"modified":"2015-02-01T14:10:09","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T13:10:09","slug":"wordpress-alternatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/2015\/02\/wordpress-alternatives\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress alternatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I briefly started talking about WordPress alternative with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/persillie\">@persillie<\/a> the other evening.<\/p>\n<p>Downsides of WordPress:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s slow<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s not easy enough to use for non-techies<\/li>\n<li>Adding a shop could be a lot easier<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>She mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/squarespace.com\/home\/overview\/\">Squarespace<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>I like the user interaction of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/squarespace?src=hash\">#squarespace<\/a> &#8211; but you need to be a US, Canadian, Irish or british resident to use the shop.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; persillie (@persillie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/persillie\/status\/544600980793593857\">December 15, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I found two articles with further ideas to explore:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sixrevisions.com\/wordpress\/wordpress-alternatives\/\">5 Modern WordPress Alternatives to Keep an Eye On<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.typeandgrids.com\/blog\/goodbye-wordpress-2014-will-be-the-year-of-flat-file-cmses\">Goodbye WordPress: 2014 Will Be the Year of the Flat-File CMS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Statamic, Craft, Ghost, Kirby, Perch, Jekyll<\/p>\n<p>I looked at Jekyll very briefly some months ago. But I didn&#8217;t dig in enough. It&#8217;s for techies. I don&#8217;t think it will solve the user interaction issues that non-techies have.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, way back in 2009 somebody used <a href=\"http:\/\/idlewords.com\/2009\/09\/using_wordpress_to_generate_flat_files.htm\">WordPress to generate flat files<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking at HTML5 templates. I played around with some of the designs at <a href=\"http:\/\/html5up.net\/\">HTML5UP<\/a> last year. I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.initializr.com\/\">this site<\/a>, based on the HTML5 Boilerplate, yesterday. <\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I briefly started talking about WordPress alternative with @persillie the other evening. Downsides of WordPress: It&#8217;s slow It&#8217;s not easy enough to use for non-techies Adding a shop could be a lot easier She mentioned Squarespace: I like the user interaction of #squarespace &#8211; but you need to be a US, Canadian, Irish or british [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[728,726,725,727,729,756],"class_list":["post-6507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-bloated","tag-files","tag-flat","tag-no-cms","tag-slow","tag-wordpress"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1LJxC-1GX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}