Simple CMS Editor

Hi Forum,

I read some posts on here where people were hunting for a really basic CMS editor that they could use on their HTML and PHP websites.

A lot of people wanted something that allowed for basic content editing without needing a database or complicated blogging software like Wordpress.

I have just put together a really quick demo for a Simple CMS Editor, and I was hoping to get some feedback.

Live demo

Please click here for live demo. You are free to edit any of the content on these pages, please limit obscenities (i can haz ur ip)

Once you log in to the demo, a dotted border goes around the editable area, and a link (top right) appears where you can edit the content.

Technical run down

Here’s a bit of a run down for those interested, otherwise just jump straight onto the online demo and try it out.

This simple CMS works by creating one or more “editable areas” on your page with a little bit of code. The editable area can display any sort of content (like html, javascript, even php) and you can edit this content with TinyMCE (a popular wysiwyg editor).

The content is saved as simple HTML files in a special “writable” directory. Click here to see the raw html file that is saved by one of the online demo’s.

Because we save these html files in a folder and not a database, you can easily open them in dreamweaver or whatever and edit them as you wish.

TinyMCE can be set to read your site’s css stylesheet, this will keep 99% of html looking the same in edit mode.

We also keep a backup file (default of 3 backups) per content area, so if you make a mistake you can open up one of the backup files to recover your content.

There is also a “Preview” mode, which allows the editor to save a preview and view how it looks before saving the real version.

Do you like it?

Let me know, if enough people like it I will submit this to the “PHP Scripts” category for you to purchase. I don’t see any CMS ’s in that category at the moment, not sure why, hopefully cms’s like this are “unique” enough to be approved.

Note: happy to receive feature requests, but I will not be creating any image or file uploading (sorry).

Note: and yes, I will make the demo look prettier if there is enough interest

Already submitted one, it got rejectd. O_o

Not bad. It’s really simple but it’s alright. Great job. Keep up the good work!

I’m looking for something just like this. Even though adding PHP for each section is easy, it would be nice if you could just add a class of “editable” to the surrounding div and work with it that way. Like the way cushycms does it. The only reason I don’t go with that is it’s hosted on their server.

It’s quite easy to do a class=”editable” sorta like cushy.

I’ll see what I can do, maybe add it as another insert method: so we’ll have PHP , Javascript, and class=”editable” methods.

Oh, I sooo want this!!

Can I “TEST” it? (then buy it once it becomes available)

- Awesome!

Hey Dtbaker,

Already picked up another app of yours and really dig it.. what are the chances of you offering this one up??? It doesn’t look like there was much feedback, and we’re about to code one of these for our own use.. but, if you’ve got it done.. we won’t need to invest the time.. PM me… let’s talk

And PS.. the client manager is awesome!! Just waiting for recurring payments, and its perfect

This is great and simple cms that will have a few code. And it’s user friendly edit with for beginners.