W

🧭 Presentation #

W is a lightweight CMS tool, meant to help you design a surprising website. Compared to other CMS, W tries to help spontaneity and for building heterogeneous web-spaces.

The project was initiated in 2018 by Vincent Peugnet which is an amateur computer scientist. It's developed on a voluntary basis, use PHP 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: Markdown, HTML, CSS and Javascript.
Multi users
Flat file database
RSS feed (Atom)
Fully functionnal without javascript
Many interface themes! (and it's very easy to create your's)

🚧 Limitations

The interface and user manual is only available in english.
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.