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Baun – A modern, lightweight, extensible CMS for PHP (github.com)
19 points by gilbitron 4128 days ago
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I'm all for "just because" projects, but after looking at this, I'm just left shaking my head. CMS? Really?

Per the documentation: "Every page of your site is represented by a .md file in the /content folder."

Um. Right... and holy hell, that navigation css! The code is 98% markup, 2% content.

Please refer to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=4H...

We're planning to make an admin UI in the future, but this is just an initial release.
The Pico CMS website features an attractive description / value proposition: "Pico is a flat file CMS, this means there is no administration backend and database to deal with. You simply create .md files in the "content" folder and that becomes a page." Perhaps you can add a similar sentence to the Baun website as well?
I tried to resist, but I simply have to ask... exactly how do YOU define the term "CMS"? Please be detailed.
This looks interesting -- do you have a demo up someplace that I can look at? (I'm not in a position to set it up myself for the next couple of weeks...)

Also, how is it different from Pico? Since Pico looks very similar and is also your project, is it just a "re-branding"?

We don't have a demo but http://bauncms.com is built using Baun. Despite having similar features to Pico, this is a complete rewrite using modern PHP standards. I sold Pico a while ago and sadly the project seems dead. I'm hoping to go much further with Baun.
Not a single test?
Looks very similar to Stacey[1], which also uses Twig and Markdown. Are there any significant differences between the two?

[1]: https://github.com/kolber/stacey

I want to use it for a (very) small business website. How safe is this? What headaches should I do prepare for?
At the moment it's much safer than most other CMS's, as there is no admin backend to hack into. A hacker would need access to your actual server to change a Baun site. So hopefully there should be no headaches.
Pretty site--well done!