Hello there! On this webpage you can find several descriptions, tutorials or just my thoughts on something terrible/beautiful I have found or worked with in a given CMS.
And just so that I have written it down: The given descriptions are just my interpretation of how I worked with specific areas.
I don’t say everything here has to be 100% correct or works as designed/intended by the CMS developers. I just want to document/share my experiences and problems.
Planned topics
- WordPress
- The good and the bad in my opinion
- Drupal
- Custom theme creation
- Preprocessors
- Custom drush commands
- CakePHP
- Not really a “CMS” in my opinion
- Strapi
- A headless CMS variant I think has potential
Newest posts
Sometimes you need to adjust the DOM in a way you can’t do just via overwriting Twig templates. Thats where preprocessors come in handy. Lets assume we already have a custom theme called “mytheme” and created a mytheme.theme file in web/themes/custom/mytheme Even though this file has a .theme extension you can write normal PHP code in there. Preprocessor functions are usually in the following…
Continue Reading Preprocessors
Requirement: Working Drupal site which has already been installed via a local instance or on a server. Add a settings.local.php for your environment specific settings It’s always a good idea to have a config file specific to your currently active environment (e.g. stagging, dev and live server). Drupal already preps that in your web/sites/default/settings.php with the following lines: # if (file_exists($app_root . ‘/’ .…
Continue Reading Developer Tools & Debugging
Drupal is another very popular CMS which has a pretty large community and many “modules” which extend the CMS the way you like. In my opinion Drupal does the following aspects of being a CMS very good: Creation of Content Types, Taxonomies and fields via backend Built in caching systemBuilt in multilingual supportBuilt in backend error log viewer (Watchdog)Very mighty permission systemYou recieve e-mail…
Continue Reading Drupal – The advanced one
WordPress is definitely the most well-known CMS in the general public and therefore the first choice for most people to start with. And in my opinion thats totally fine because WordPress has in my opinion: the best backend to manage content in a user-friendly way,the easiest setup to start with, has a huge repository of plugins (which can be a downside as well, see…
Continue Reading WordPress – The common one
