Brainstorming about CMS
Hi!
after several months of Filament, my app is almost done
the next chapter will be: made a CMS or use third part CMS?
I have a lot of experience with WinterCMS (laravel cms)
but i'm feel confident that it's better to build a CMS my self.
The purpouse is making n basic websites
with: news, static pages, blog posts, galleries, user roles etc.. on top of this, customization if needed.
what do you suggests?
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i just rolled our own at work to replace wordpress sites. really not that difficult using Filament. 🙂
In fact, I have the same need here at work. It would be an internal-use product. Can I ask you what structure you gave it and if you used any specific plugins?
There's not a once size fits all. Using several of my plugins and a few others though. But most of it is hand rolled functionality. We do use internachi's modular package though to do a lot of it in a modular structure.
I love filament, but why not use something like Statamic for that? I build in a few hours a whole website with that, and it is easy to maintain and customize. Wordpress I also still use, bulky but who cares for most applications.. 🙂
i'm not aware of internachi, i take a look, thanks
i will check also statami
Statamic is great, but doesn't fit our use case.
i need a free solution, statamic doesn't fit
It's worth mentioning that Statamic is free if you only need one Admin user.
There are advantages to using a purpose-built CMS like Statamic (or Winter), but I think if you're starting from a big Laravel/Filament project, and want to fit in a CMS later for a few public pages or sections of your app, it makes a lot of sense to just build it yourself.