Moved this site from Radiant CMS to Mephisto
Posted by tom February 25th, 2007
Today I’ve moved this site from Radiant CMS to Mephisto. It’s not that I don’t like Radiant CMS (anymore), instead I like some of it’s concepts better than Mephisto’s. It’s just that this site is a blog and I need blogging capabilities. Of course I could have done with a comment-plugin, but there’s more to it: assets, comments, etc. Hey, I might move back later!
Moving from Radiant CMS to Mephisto is a no-brainer, I just wrote a small Ruby script which did the trick. I could use a similar script to move back. But I must say Rick Olson and Justin Palmer did a wonderful job with the Admin interface!
However, Radiant CMS’s template system is far more advanced and well conceived than Mephisto’s: Liquid. Choices, choices! Anyway in the mean time I’ve setup a Radiant CMS test-site for my own testing purposes.
What I actually hope for: a merger between the two, but that is probably never gonna happen…
2 Responses to “Moved this site from Radiant CMS to Mephisto”
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February 28th, 2007 at 07:51 AM
Hi:
I have not tried Radiant CMS but did try the demo etc. As you have tested both It would be interesting to see what you would like to see merged?
If its just the template system just so you know Mephisto now supports ERB, ERUBIS, HAML so making Radiant template wouldn’t be that difficult… or other things you had in mind?
Cheers
March 2nd, 2007 at 12:43 AM
Radiant CMS is certainly worthwhile. It focusses more on Content Management and less on Blogging, though both are possible. What I like about Radiant are behaviours and the page-part concept, whereby you can add as many parts as you want. It also makes maintenance easier: In the same way it allows you to edit the body and the extended article it allows you to change the body and sidebar of a page. Especially with James’ last addition you can add functionality to the admin site.
But I s’pose it’s like food, some you like some you don’t. I probably want to add the flavour of pancakes to lasagna, which probably tastes like sh*t.
Tom.