CMS for plain HTML website

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Sreedhar picture Sreedhar · Feb 25, 2010 · Viewed 7.4k times · Source

Hello I got a website with around 5-6 pages (plain html). There are areas in these pages where I need to update occassionally. Is there any free / opensource CMS to maintain these editable areas of HTML page.

Thanks

Answer

Bobby Jack picture Bobby Jack · Feb 27, 2010

Perch is excellent for small sites.

At its very simplest, Perch allows you to replace static content in an HTML file with placeholders. A simple GUI then allows you to edit those placeholder values for individual pages. So, for example, if you have a file containing this chunk of markup:

<h1>My site</h1>

you can change that to:

<h1><?php perch_content('Main heading'); ?></h1>

and you'll then be able to edit 'Main heading' through the GUI. Most CMS apps work in a similar way, but Perch is the first I've come across that does very little else, which is a huge plus for small projects.

I haven't used Perch for a while, and I'm sure they've added some features since I last did, but I'd still recommend you give it a try. It's cheap, too.

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