Best of CMS — May 2025

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   CSS-Tricks·1y

   Using Pages CMS for Static Site Content Management

   Pages CMS is an open-source content management system designed for static site generators, offering easy usage, minimal requirements, and customization. With no backend needed, content is stored as flat files in a git repository. It's free to use and supports user authentication via GitHub or email. Pages CMS simplifies content management and collaboration by providing a sleek user interface for editing and organizing content collections using configuration files. It integrates seamlessly with Astro for managing directories of Markdown files, offering flexibility and efficiency for managing static site content.

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   Article

   Community Picks·1y

   Design websites

   Learn how to create custom, fully-editable websites directly in your browser. The post discusses using cookies for site traffic analysis and provides a privacy policy link.

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   Community Picks·1y

   Dokploy Blueprints

   The post introduces a variety of open-source alternatives to popular commercial products, covering platforms for databases, backend servers, knowledge management, web analytics, scheduling, CMS, and more. These tools offer functionality similar to Amazon RDS, Firebase, Calendly, and other management and analytics solutions, with the benefits of self-hosting and often reduced costs.

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   Video

   Web Dev Cody·1y

   Adding an Editable Rich Text to The Writing Platform

   A developer shares a live coding session on building a custom writing platform with editable content features. The project includes configuring the application's settings, using a database for storing configurations, and implementing an editable text component that utilizes Drizzle ORM. AI tools are demonstrated in enhancing coding productivity, and considerations for security with content sanitization are discussed.

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