You might be interested in Lambda CMS (http://lambdacms.org). "It requires a programmer to setup. [..] Once deployed, the content is manageable for a non-technical end user."

On 31 May 2015, at 10:32, Tobias Dammers wrote:

FWIW, I'm working on a fairly generic CMS platform that could easily be bashed into a blog type website (assuming that you'd use something like disqus for comments), but it's not quite ready for prime time yet...

On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 04:56:29PM +0200, Nicola Gigante wrote:

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Hi all,

Is there a blog platform written in Haskell? I mean something dynamic (as opposed to a static site generator like hakyll) like WordPress but written in Haskell.

Does something like that exist?

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Quoth Nicola Gigante ,

LambdaCMS looks like the thing closer to what I was looking for. So as I can see there’s nothing like a “haskell WordPress”. I mean something easy to use and targeted at end users, that just happens to be written in Haskell.

That would be a cool use case showroom for skeptics web developers, wouldn’t it? Especially after a couple of years of development and no security exploits found ;P

After brief experience with Drupal, I'd propose that the blog platform market is pretty well served by WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, et al., and a better strategy would be something that supports general web development that isn't tied to a particular model like a blog. That seems like the weakness of the "content management systems" that you currently have to pick from. They all support an infinite variety of trivial variations on the blog model, but make it hard to really go anywhere else. Donn

On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 8:36 AM, Donn Cave wrote:

nd a better strategy would be something that supports general web development that isn't tied to a particular model like a blog. That seems like the weakness of the "content management systems" that you currently have to pick from. They all support an infinite variety of trivial variations on the blog model, but make it hard to really go anywhere else.

Assuming that anything that supports articles posted by users along with a mechanism to announce new articles qualifies as "variations on the blog model", what would another model be? I assume that the school of haskell hasn't been mentioned because the source hasn't been released yet? Or at least I couldn't find it.

On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 9:49 AM, Donn Cave wrote:

Just more general. In my case, I have content that's not wholly dissimilar from that, but had my own ideas as to how to organize and manage it, and then drupal rapidly got to be more trouble than it was worth. For example, if you don't want that mechanism to announce new articles on the front page, then you can install a front page extension ... but the conflict with the basic design that assumes this structure creates some tension. That's what I'm talking about - sure, provide the mechanisms, but don't build the assumptions about form and structure into that support. So I just threw it out and I generate my own web pages, but of course drupal supports lots of stuff that I'll probably miss someday.

So what you really want is a more flexible approach. I get that. I use both blogger & pages, as the different models they provide meet different needs, which occasionally leads to questions about where something should go. This sounds like something where the ability to compose functionality - as opposed inherit it - should be an advantage. At least until you hide it behind a GUI.

That is the direction that clckwrks has naturally ended up heading in. In the first version, it had blog stuff builtin. But as things got refactored the blog/cms stuff just became another general purpose plugin -- not part of the core. In fact, the authentication layer is even taking a step in that direction. It is still hardwired into the core, but it uses the clckwrks plugin architecture. At its core, clckwrks is just a general framework with allows you to dynamically load and unload components and themes. But it does not put many constraints on what those plugins need to do. I have taken existing standalone web apps and turned them into clckwrks plugins with little effort. In theory, you can save development time though by building a web application that builds on top of existing plugins -- such as a media plugin, cms plugin, payment plugin, etc. That way you can focus on the unique aspects of your site instead of wasting a lot of time on the boring mechanics of dealing with payment processing, serving files from S3, etc. - jeremy On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 8:36 AM, Donn Cave wrote:

Quoth Nicola Gigante ,

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LambdaCMS looks like the thing closer to what I was looking for. So as I can see there’s nothing like a “haskell WordPress”. I mean something easy to use and targeted at end users, that just happens to be written in Haskell.

That would be a cool use case showroom for skeptics web developers, wouldn’t it? Especially after a couple of years of development and no security exploits found ;P

After brief experience with Drupal, I'd propose that the blog platform market is pretty well served by WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, et al., and a better strategy would be something that supports general web development that isn't tied to a particular model like a blog. That seems like the weakness of the "content management systems" that you currently have to pick from. They all support an infinite variety of trivial variations on the blog model, but make it hard to really go anywhere else.

Donn

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