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Wordpress vs. ModX vs. 'what do you like?' (feddit.de)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello community,

I am looking for a system to replace wordpress.

My goal is to build a webpage with a simple start page, an 'about me' and an impressum, so nothing special, but hopefully good looking.

I only use open source software, FOSS whenever possible. I have a rough understanding of some HTML, CSS, PHP, but I am happy if my future webpage doesn't rely too heavy on my knowlege of those languages.

Wordpress feels very over the top and not many things work out of the box - you have to pay for premium products if you want a functional page, that doesn't look exactly like twenty twenty-two. I wanted to move my wordpress site from one host to another host.. Not easy, unless you pay for a plugin of course.

Now I found ModX, a CMS which looks like it is much less clunky, has more free 'plugins' and it looks quite intuitive with it's folder structure.

My questions:

Has anyone used both CMS and can compare them based on their personal experience?
What CMS or other way do you prefer to build your simple webpage (FOSS only version)?

Edit: Thank you all for great recommendations and for sharing your experience! I learned: A full CMS is overkill for my usecase. Other, more suitable options, are:

Flat-file CMS (Grav, Automad,..)
static-file-generators (Hugo,..)
Emacs-org-html-export (.........)
Build from scratch with html and css

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

You might like Grav. It’s open source, a lot lighter weight than Wordpress, and you don’t need to know css, html, etc…

I started messing with it a few days ago and so far it’s pretty nice.

edit: removed open source redundancy

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Is Grav still peddling their premium version all over the back end and support site? That turned me off their software ~5-6 years ago but I guess you could just not install the admin plugin...

Edit: "Grav", not "Grab"...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

When I was testing, I didn’t really notice it being overly obnoxious when I was logged in to the admin web ui. I wasn’t paying too much attention to that aspect of it since I have no intention of paying for premium. They may have toned it down since that kind of thing turns me off as well and I tend to notice if it’s egregious.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Grav is slow in my experience.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Slow as a web server? I’ve only poked around it a little bit, the very little I did felt responsive, but I put no real load on it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Slow to load for the end user. Maybe I just needed a CDN.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I’ll keep that in mind. Thank you.