{"id":2103,"date":"2009-07-24T20:09:11","date_gmt":"2009-07-25T00:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/?p=2103"},"modified":"2009-07-24T20:09:11","modified_gmt":"2009-07-25T00:09:11","slug":"radiant-cms-mini-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2009\/07\/24\/radiant-cms-mini-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Radiant CMS Mini-review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had pondered aloud about Radiant CMS in the past about <a href=\"http:\/\/radiantcms.org\/\">Radiant CMS<\/a>, a small and slick CMS.<\/p>\n<p>After tooling around for about 45 minutes, here&#8217;s a mini-review:<\/p>\n<ul>\n    <li>It&#8217;s easy to set up, and is, indeed, small and slick.<\/li>\n    <li>Generally, it works well.<\/li>\n    <li>It&#8217;s seemingly not meant for non-technical users. To get a basic templated page set up, I had to figure out layouts and pages. Easy enough for me, and pretty powerful, but not something a non-technical user would grasp at all.<\/li>\n    <li>More advanced features aren&#8217;t that intuitive. For example, I&#8217;d like to have a &#8220;Snippet&#8221; that is a dynamically-generated list of the pages on my site. I can probably do this somehow, but I have no clue how, and the documentation doesn&#8217;t make it that apparent.<\/li>\n    <li>The extensions provide lots of added functionality. Unfortunately, three of the five I attempted to install failed with cryptic errors. One of the five worked great (&#8220;settings&#8221;). The fifth, paperclipped, installs fine, but fails to generate thumbnails and doesn&#8217;t show any errors. There are several rake commands that need to be run for most extensions that I haven&#8217;t seen documented in any clear place.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Overall, it&#8217;s slicker than a lot of things, but it still feels like a rough-around-the-edges tool meant for developers and geeks, not ready for the sort of people that want a webpage but don&#8217;t understand this H-T-M-L concept.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had pondered aloud about Radiant CMS in the past about Radiant CMS, a small and slick CMS. After tooling around for about 45 minutes, here&#8217;s a mini-review: It&#8217;s easy to set up, and is, indeed, small and slick. Generally, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2009\/07\/24\/radiant-cms-mini-review\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}