Help Wanted: Open Source Hugo CMS

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Greetings,

I don’t want to be spammy. I’ll be brief.
If the moderation thinks that this post should not be here, please let me know so I can remove it.

Some time ago I’ve built a Hugo CMS called Hokus CMS.
It is a desktop application that runs on Windows, Linux and Mac. It is open source, totally free.

The thing is, I can’t find people to contribute to it. I don’t know how many people are using it, if they are liking it or not. People are not getting involved.

I believe it can be a great tool for Hugo community, but I need help to achieve that.

Any tips to help to turn Hokus CMS into a great project would be greatly appreciated.

https://www.hokuscms.com/

Thank you.

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Here’s some feedback on the website:

  • I don’t have time to watch videos, so from the front page I have no idea what the software is
  • The contact page is insecure for some reason

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I think working on those two issues will present a more welcoming front door to future collaborators. :slight_smile:

Good luck with your CMS. I don’t use Electron, so that’s a pass for me.

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Thank you!

One last question. Why don’t you use Electron apps?
You’ve never tried VSCode?

Thank you for your time!

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You can look up reasons folks don’t use Electron. It is off-topic for the Hugo forums.

No. And by now we know we are different and it takes all kinds! :slight_smile:

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I’ve given hokus a shot - but can’t work out how to get it to work with an existing hugo site (in a folder on my mac). Is that possible?

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Hello,

This project is very interesting… But I tried to use it several times (on GNU/Linux), and really I can’t manage to use it.

  1. No real documentation for main config file and site default hokus file for the site.
  2. Default installation didn’t work: can’t edit existing posts for example.
  3. Inconsistent interface: what’s a workspace? Why we have to select each time a site & a workspace: a site must have is workspace. No ?

For testing and contributing we need something more functional and more documented. Something like a sample site, with a default content & a preconfigured theme…

For me this is an interesting project, but in too early stage.

I hope you manage to make some progress on this project.

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same here.

I need to create UI from pre-defined fields, group of fields and repeating groups. That way user could build content like in page builder.