Is there a CMS I can install from softaculous that can:
maintain my current page layout\theme
let me have featured articles in my side bar and home page
supports scheduled article release
has a reader comments tool
or am i better writing something from scratch with PHP to maintain the work i’ve done on my layout\theme
Just looking for an opinion before I start on a crazy journey that might well send me totally loopy (although I’m already pretty close lol)
I’m looking to add blog style articles (maybe with reader comments… not decided yet on that) to my site. I’ve spent longer than I’d like to admit working on my layout, css and adding a dark mode, so I’d like my articles to keep the current styling, layout ect.
I also want to be able to have featured articles in my sidebar or on my homepage, along with being able to shedule future releases for articles.
I’ve been looking at the CMS’s on softaculous and I can’t work out if any of them actually meet my needs. So I wanted to ask for other peoples expeirence before I start building my own using php and sql.
I think wordpress or joomla will suit you well, think both even support post queues, custom html and css, but the theme might or might not look identical.
Thanks, I’ll take a look at joomla. I tried wordpress and didn’t like the results. In fairness, I’ve used wordpress many times over the years and never gotten on with it so I’m not supprised
Theoretically, any HTML design can be converted to a theme for a CMS of your choice. However, it will require knowledge of theme development for that CMS to work. And depending on the CMS, you may need to change the layout a little bit to fit the CMS.
WordPress is both very feature rich and very versatile in how pages can be designed, but it’s not the easiest in terms of theme development in my opinion.
I used to use GetSimple CMS in the past for basic websites with a little bit of dynamic functionality and I remember it being extremely easy to turn a HTML page into a CMS theme. But I think that project is pretty much dead now, and doesn’t offer the functionality you want.
Thanks for your input. Having played arround a bit more, I decided to make a a basic system for myself in PHP. Nothing fancy, but it does exactly what I need to.