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PayloadCMS: Open-Source, Fullstack Next.js Framework

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214 points stefankuehnel | 3 comments | 14 Oct 24 17:55 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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desireco42 ◴[14 Oct 24 19:11 UTC] No.41840828[source]▶
They do mention WP (Word Press)... I am confused. What exactly this does?

I get it takes care of content and they mention Stripe, so that is good. But is this WP compatible layer or this is accidental use of shorthand for something else?

It is more like those templates that people use to jumpstart sites, I think this can be very useful.

I don't want to sound too complainy over the free code you can get and examine yourself, maybe adding thumbnails of 3 templates would be fantastic.

Overall some clarity would be great, maybe developer should talk to someone outside his little circle and explain and see what they should include.

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1. mzronek ◴[14 Oct 24 20:01 UTC] No.41841308[source]▶
They seem to recently position themselves as a Wordpress alternative. There is a blog post about migration from Wordpress to Payload including code: https://payloadcms.com/blog/how-to-migrate-from-wordpress-to...

No, it's a Headless CMS, so no frontend themes and templates. They have an official demo page including a frontend, that you can base your work on: https://github.com/payloadcms/public-demo

If you are looking for a Wordpress-clickety click solution with templates, Payload is not a candidate.

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2. throwaway83yqr ◴[14 Oct 24 22:49 UTC] No.41843007[source]▶
I think any solution that does not use PHP will not replace WordPress for most users, unless WP itself stagnates. "Anyone" can install Word press on a cheap shared hosting device and get started. That's why I think a real WP alternative will need to be based on PHP (Laravel?)
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3. chilldsgn ◴[15 Oct 24 06:21 UTC] No.41845494[source]▶
I've migrated from WordPress to Laravel-based CMS before. There's Statamic, but it's not free, though. It's good, my users love it and I can easily add functionality in contrast to WordPress, you'd have to install a plugin or dig into the digustingly messy code. Hated it.