I love static site generators, especially Hugo, but I also need a way for non-technical editors to create content. I wanted to post a long comment of a plan how the best aspects of static site generators and file-based CMS could be combined. Unfortunately, the forum doesn’t trust me enough to add m…

+1 for articulating “Static CMS”. [image] marcojakob: We’re not that far away from an awesome way to build websites, IMO. I hope not :slight_smile: Seems we need something between a Static CMS and a Flat File CMS (which are still fully dynamic, just using the filesystem for storage). Essent…

WRT to assets in the content directory: i still think supporting Textbundle/Textpack is the way to go.

@Middling Interesting. I’ve never heard of it. Do you suggest that Hugo should support such Textbundles in the Content directory? If yes, maybe your suggestion could be discussed in the feature request for Non-MD files in the content directory .

Very interesting! I read your blog post about 2 days ago, before I read your post here. I had for some time been thinking about creating an untraditional CMS that primary will use directories and files instead of a database as storage. I was also thinking it could be possible to do it also with ver…

[image] larsth: I was also thinking it could be possible to do it also with very large websites. […] hugoshm - is a hugo that uses shared memory (SHM) […] hugobuild - is the build tool that shares its mmap´ed files […] hugocms - is the CMS that interacts with hugobuild and the user(s) brow…

I’m working on a prototype of a Hugo-driven file-based CMS…

Great, @fireproofsocks . Curious to know more about your project.

We’re currently beta testing our Hugo CMS. See 60 sec demo video here: Message me if you want to try it out :slight_smile: scott@forestry.io

I’m closing this topic as there is a much more active one at [image] Web-Based Editor? I have a love hate relationship with the web. I love static site generators and generally hate big content management systems. All the while, the "work local and deploy" model does have significant dow…

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