otCMS is the diminutive CMS used to run the site olivier.thereaux.net.
- No dynamic code. My site doen't have comments, accounts, personalisation or any such thing. It means I can write or generate flat HTML files, and the site will “just work” pretty much wherever I serve it from - even if the CMS is broken.
- Minimal dependencies. This CMS is written in python, which comes by default with a very rich library. I did not want to depend on too many libraries which would hinder portability. So far, I have managed to stick to two library dependencies, and imagemagick for thumbnail creation
- No database - The catalog of entries is a flat file, both machine-readable and human-writable. I looked at a few formats (such as yaml) but decided to stick to a python syntax. See samples/catalog.py.
- Simple publication mechanism. A few scripts should be enough to (re)generate html files with simple templates. Git or any other versioning system can then take over as versioning, distribution and backup mechanism.
- No editor. I write entries by hand, using a mix of markdown and HTML. The CMS takes care of adding all the navigation, headers, footers and generates all the indexes and feeds.
You will need
- Python, with the
- python-markdown2 and
- mako modules
- Imagemagick for the thumbnail generation
- Connect with your htdocs directory by setting the right parameters in config/settings.py
- Create your catalog of entries. See samples/catalog.py
- [optional] You can write entries by editing a .md file. The system will take that as a basis to create .html entries
- Run bin/refresh.py to create/refresh indexes, feeds, and entries
- Pre-processing for a few usual markup constructs (image gallery, etc)
(c) 2013-2016 Olivier Thereaux (olivier@thereaux.net)
This work is free. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License, Version 2, as published by Sam Hocevar. See http://www.wtfpl.net/ for more details.