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Connor Black
Connor Black

Reputation: 7181

Pure Frontend CMS

I'm currently redeveloping/designing a department website at my university, but an internal organization who handles the servers/current CMS system are being ridiculously uncooperative. I can't get access to the templates of the current CMS and I can't develop my own templates for the system, so I'm trying to move away from it (EZ Publish). But I also can't get admin access to a server, so I'm unable to install PHP/MySQL to get Wordpress up and running.

Basically, all I have access to right now is a public/ folder. I'm considering writing a pure frontend app with backbone or something, but my boss wants the option of the dept heads to edit information. I want to avoid rolling together my own custom CMS if possible, so I was wondering if anyone knows of a pure front-end CMS manager that doesn't require a server language and server database.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 850

Answers (3)

eMBee
eMBee

Reputation: 793

another approach to this problem is static website generators.

you can host the content and data for those in a university internal or other code repository and push the generated content to the site.

to allow your depearment heads to edit information, find a site generator that allows you to seperate structure and layout from content, so that they can edit simple text files to add content, hosted on a shared storage they can all access.

Upvotes: 0

thibauts
thibauts

Reputation: 1648

Host a wordpress somewhere else and install the JSON API plugin. Enable CORS on the remote server. Build Your frontend with static files that interact with the service. Host them in the buggers public/ directory.

The admin/post editing tasks will have to be done on the backend host, but hopefuly you'll be able to get a subdomain from your university to point there.

Upvotes: 0

Labib Ismaiel
Labib Ismaiel

Reputation: 1340

that's a hard one, first because you have to have a way to maintain the data and that's not possible in front end, if the server is working RESTfully, that may be possible, but in other cases, I don't think this is a choice, because no cms will be able to communicate with an existing server cms.

Upvotes: 1

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