Frog CMS

@Jeroen Callewaert – No directly related to Wordpress, but the thing is that Wordpress is a lot more resource heavy than Frog, I used to have (and I still, because I have one site left in WP) response times of over 30 seconds with WP. And when the network traffic rises, with the page requests, the SQL queries and all, if the server doesn’t have enough resources (like mine) it goes down.

WARNING: Frog fanboyism below.

Wordpress is a great blogging platform, with a lot of features out of the box (and very user-friendly) and plugins for almost every task. But this also means that it uses a lot of resources. By the other hand, Frog looks a little more difficult to learn, but once you understand how it works (and it doesn’t take too long), is a lot more flexible than most of the CMS out there and lighter, and you can do almost anything without the need of plugins using snippets and layouts.

Take my site for example which it is a webcomic, it used to be in Wordpress with the Comicpress plugin and theme. It took me a couple of days to port the theme and most of the features from WP to Frog. Right, now I don’t have a “comic upload manager”, but I do have an general purpose upload manager and with pageparts I can insert text and the comic in one page and show it nicely on the frontpage. Done with almost no knowledge of PHP.

Couldn’t agree with you more about Wordpress, as great as it is, it does contain a lot of bloat.

I always suspected that Frog would work better under these sort of circumstances, so its nice to have some physical proof of that. ;)

@Martijn – Here are the stats :)
As you can see, the “digg” (or “meneame”) effect happened after the 13th, not many visits before that (6 or 8)

The Google Analytics graph (the flat part represents 6 or 8 visits, the it jumps to above 8000)

I don’t know if the response time was good during this period, I’m not sure if the part where the network traffic goes down was because of the time (it was dawn) or because of the server. But the thing is, as a reference, that the last time that the server went down (and I had to reboot it) was when I was using apache+wordpress on it and having at most 10 visits, then I switched to lighttpd+wordpress and now lighttpd+frog.

Another site I just finished using Frog. La Boutique du Foyer de Granby . I Used the gallery plug-in from Bebliuc to create product galleries. Currently looking to implement search capabilities.. any suggestions ? I know there’s a plug-in in the making right now. Hope you guys finish it soon !

Again, in french so sorry for you english speaking frog lovers out there.

Keep up the good work !

@Substance how did you make the menu that shows you exactly on what page your are?

thx :D (I feel kind of silly haveing asked for that :D)

very nice jeCa!

Thx, ricks! @tuupola, solid system clean stuff!

@Pnikosis – Nice and clean. Love the effects! Who would have think that on frog

ricks: $_GET array :)

Hi, I’m not very experienced in web design, but here are my sites:

Blog Szymona
Łatwy Linux

I also love Frog CMS!

cool. does it require modifying the htaccess file?

Not atleast with 0.9.5.

I’m not sure anyone here would be interested in the actual content, but my personal website is running on Frog. I needed a lightweight CMS with few dependencies, and Frog fits the bill perfectly. Thank you Philippe et al.!

http://saa.dyndns.org/