Hey mates! I have this case, It'll be my first website after some good months learning HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The client will need to add some content regularly, not every week but maybe one or twice per month, and I was wondering how bad I need a CMS for this case. I've been checking WordPress but I find it so difficult for me to start building the site. What are your thoughts? Any tips? Thanks!!!
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Maybe you can try some Headless CMS:
Maybe Cockpit with embedded Sqlite is enough for a static website: getcockpit.com/
very easy to host and use.
Or you can give it a try to: getgrav.org/
Install a theme and modify it.
We haven't used those. How do they deal with rendering for crawlers etc?
Well, one way i can come up, is call those API from backend, and server-render it. Otherwise, you can dig deeper in this topic, maybe a static site generator like Gatsby and Gridsome can be of good use.
Thank your Erkand, I´ll def check this. Didn't know about Headless CMS, looks like this should be enough for my project !
Real talk: Almost every client we've ever had - called us a year later asking how to log into their site (meaning -even though we made detailed walkthrough videos showing how to use the CMS and they still didn't use it). Just hard code it. If they ever actually start using it - then you can setup a new contract - and build it in WordPress or something with ACF and make it dynamic. If you want an overview of how to turn a basic HTML page into a simple custom WP theme - let us know. We'll show you.
Have you tried ButterCMS? It's a headless CMS with a preconfigured blog engine, so you don't have to spend time building one (or if you want to customize one you can do that too). Butter is headless so all maintenance of the CMS is done for you. It has support for dozens of new technologies so you can plug in a blog and be up and running in minutes.