It’s OK not to use tools

I manage 140+ websites for a university and we use a CMS. We could not live without it. But I have a handful of friends that make their living using wordpress to standup small to medium sites. As a CMS, wordpress makes their customer's life easy to edit content and add pages and such. IT still takes a tech to create the site.

I don't do outside work so my feelings are more just my gut and not based on direct experience. But having migrated several university blogs away from wordpress into the cms I know I sleep better at night not worrying about wordpress vulnerabilities. We have had several WP blogs successfully attacked and getting them back to a proper state was just terribly complicated.

We really need easy tools for small sites (maybe <50 pages, or simple blogs). Static publishing for those with a little technical bent are useful but for others not really approachable.

Recently I have been looking at http://dodgercms.com/ and a recently cloned derivative https://bitbucket.org/matthewdlevy/drafty. Both are not really ready for prime time and set up requires a little knowledge of AWS but once set up, creating a small site is pretty easy.