🧭 Presentation #
W is a lightweight CMS tool written in PHP, meant to help you design a surprising website using it's unique approach.
It's targeting artists, or experimental projects.
The project was initiated in 2018 by Vincent Peugnet which is an amateur computer scientist.
It's developed on a voluntary basis and is licensed under AGPLv3.
W is a wiki. Wikis are a type of Web building tools that encourage quick and easy edit of pages.
It's also inspired from personnal knowledge management (PKM) theory.
W is at the intersection of a website editor and a note-taking tool.
This is both its advantage and its drawback: it can do both, but is limited in each direction.
That being said, W has some interesting features and a specific approach, that might interest some strange web builders.
✨ Technical highlights
- Lightweight
- Easy to edit on mobile.
- Use standards to build your website: Markdown, HTML, CSS and Javascript.
- Multi users
- Flat file database
- Fully functionnal without javascript
🚧 Limitations
The interface and user manual is only available in english.
W is not suited for big projects:
it has never been tested with a large page quantity (more than 1000 pages).
It's also not recommended for multi-language websites.
W is not version control friendly.
📷 Screenshots #
Desktop
Mobile interface
W tries to be comfortable on mobile.
🔩 Installation #
Requirements :- Apache server
- PHP >=7.4.0 and the following extensions:
curl
mbstring
xml
💡 W can run in a domain subfolder.
Download the lastest W version, to use on your server:
📦
download zip file
Or install it using git
:
🎋
https://github.com/vincent-peugnet/wcms.git
Then, type
make
to "build" the app.
🤙 Contact #
Feel free to email me for any question or sugestion.
vincent+w@club1.fr💬 Matrix
There is a Matrix Room, feel free to ask questions in english or french.
Matrixw-cms:club1.fr
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