[e12e]

Best of luck on your cms - I must admit I think the future lies with something like deno/fresh (https://fresh.deno.dev) or astro (https://astro.build) along with cdn/edge computing.

> Recently I spun up a site for a client and the plug-ins cost over $1000 just to get them going.

I think that's the wrong way around - you/your client could buy stuff costing a thousand dollars because of the huge wp ecosystem (however dysfunctional it may be - I once looked briefly at how to write and sell a wp theme - and quickly moved on to different pursuits). Now, how much value did you get from that? That's one of the big draws of wp.

Im sure your new system will cover 80% of that - but what about the themes and plug-ins someone else needs?

[iambateman]

I’ll check out fresh and Astro!

As far as costs go…

Beaver builder - 250 Custom fields - 100 Faceting - 100 forms - 150 Import/export - 100

It doesn’t take long to get to $1000!

The new system I’m working on will be extensible for various needs using new composer packages. So if someone wanted to write an obscure form handler, they could trivially add it to Prodigy as well.

[e12e]

> I’ll check out fresh and Astro!

Please do - but note that those are typescript frameworks/systems - not php!

I'm not saying "don't build stuff in php", just that for me, if I was going to throw out support for wp themes and plug-ins - I wouldn't see much point in staying with php and similar architecture to wp. But for those comfortable with modern php it might be great.