Kirby Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Show HN: Primo – a visual CMS with Svelte blocks, a code editor, and SSG

  Not sure if this is what you’re after but give https://getkirby.com/ a try. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Grav is a modern open-source flat-file CMS

  Personally think https://getkirby.com is the entry to beat but I guess it’s just because I’m used to it and it works incredibly well for my use case. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• What kind of CMS for custom website?

  Check out KirbyCMS. A PHP based files-only CMS. Can also be used as headless CMS. Works on most shared hosts and doesn't need a database. You'll have to do some basic PHP for the templates, though. Source: 10 months ago

• WP20 and Audrey Scholars – Matt Mullenweg

  I guess it depends what you need to build. I used to use Wordpress for all my personal and client projects but I then moved to Kirby[0] and I couldn’t be happier. But I think it highly depends on what kind of projects you work on. [0] https://getkirby.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

• Ask HN: How do I make a website in 2023?

  I can recommend Kirby (https://getkirby.com/), a flat file PHP CMS. It’s fast, has a panel to update data and can be hosted on any basically any PHP host. Just use the quite simple PHP-templates and add CSS & JS like you already know how to do. No need to complicate things. - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago

• Go with PHP

  PHP has a lot of top tier CMSes. IMHO bunch of them are even better than Statamic. Craft CMS (https://craftcms.com/) is a lot more mature database based CMS. Kirby (https://getkirby.com/) is better at flat-file and has a lot better admin interface. Twill (https://twillcms.com/) is better integrated in Laravel and is fully open-source. Statamic mostly feels like it's sitting besides Laravel and they call themselves... - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago

• Is a custom CMS a bad idea?

  If this sounds like what you need, take a look at https://getkirby.com/ It's the tool of choice for me for smaller-medium things, it's also simple to set up and to maintain. Source: about 1 year ago

• Free CMS I can use for a pro bono client

  Https://getkirby.com/ or consider if they really even need a cms. Sometimes a simple html website is plenty and you can update for them if/when the need arises. Source: about 1 year ago

• best php-based cms/tech choice

  Another area of CMS Systems are Flat File System based CMS which I did last time not hear a lot around but there was a lot of noice in the past from Kirby CMS and Grav CMS. Instead of a database they store all there data inside files and I mostly saw more for simpler website build with it where not specific security releated user context based content where used. Source: over 1 year ago

• WordPress: Is building a non-Gutenberg based site using ACF "safe" to do in 2022?

  I don't know what kind of project you're working on right now, but depending on scope, I can recommend giving https://getkirby.com/ a try. It's a flatfile cms with very good documentation. I got to build with it on our latest project and found it much more enjoyable to work with than wordpress. Downside is that it's not free. Source: over 1 year ago

• How to create an easily extendable page?

  If you must stay with front-end tech you can use fetch with a path rather than a url to get public files from a given dir. Maybe look into static site generators (eleventy for example) or flat-file CMSs (kirby for example). Source: over 1 year ago

• Learning curve for Joomla and Drupal

  I would recommend Grav or Kirby (if your site is less than 50 pages) or Craft if your site is larger than that. Craft is especially nice. I has an incredibly powerful developer experience and an incredibly refined editor experience. Those 2 don't often go together. Grav and Kirby are nice in that they give you all the nice features of a CMS, but don't require a database, so they're trivially easy to stand up... Source: over 1 year ago

• Do I need to pay for tons of plugins (and possibly a page builder) to make a good portfolio for freelancing?

  Depends on what you want to do. Web development is always a matter of using the right tool for the right job. Wordpress is absolutely fine in most cases. I think with WP you can't spread yourself too thin either. But if you want something lighter, you could look at https://getkirby.com/ for example. Source: over 1 year ago

• Show HN: I made a CMS that uses Git to store your data

  What OP is building is not a typical "flat file CMS". Flat File CMS are typical CMS systems (often times written in PHP) that run on the server, but use files (often Markdown/Frontmatter) as their data layer (instead of a DB like Wordpress, Drupal, etc.) – if you're looking for a really nice Flat File CMS take a look at Kirby (https://getkirby.com). What OP is building (I think) and what others like Netlify CMS... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• What cms to use free and get first experience to integrate it?

  +1 for Grav given OP's requirements. Other CMSs in this vein: Statamic, Kirby. Source: over 1 year ago

• The search for CMS, customizability, without a lot of PHP tinkering

  I was in the same spot like you and then I found Kirby CMS. Source: over 1 year ago

• What are people using these days to build commercial small scale websites?

  Https://getkirby.com is like Statamic, only without Laravel bloat and cheaper. Source: over 1 year ago

• I am really confused by wordpress security

  In other modern CMS, it's rarely get hacked but this happen when you use WordPress. If you really need to spend less time, you might consider Kirby CMS with friendly admin backend. https://getkirby.com/. Source: over 1 year ago

• Ask HN: What CMS are you using in 2022?

  [Kirby](https://getkirby.com) is very nice, but it depends on the project. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Ask HN: What's your favorite flat file blog?

  Kirby. https://getkirby.com It’s PHP based, but content is all stored as markdown with optional front-matter. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Smaller is better (The rise, fall, and rise of flat file software)

  I'm trying to get away from a DB-based CMS for some company web sites. Static generators won't do for a number of reasons, so a flat-file CMS seems like a good fit. Currently I'm looking at GravCMS [1] as an alternative. It's free initially, but it can become somewhat expensive with many official plugins. But it's file format is Markdown, and one can combine multiple files into a so-called modular page. It has a... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago