Joomlatools Pages is an easy to use page generator for Joomla inspired by the ideas and concepts of flat-file CMS systems like Grav and Statamic, static site generators like Jekyll, Hugo, Gatsby and Headless CMS system like Strapi and Prismic etc.
Make no mistake, Pages is not a static site generator (SSG), Pages works in a dynamic, lazy and smart way. A page is dynamically generated, cached and only re-generated when its content or layout has changed.
Pages is more than a page generator, it's an engine for creating websites
Pages takes your Markdown files, custom HTML or PHP code churns through layouts to create a page, then injects that back into your site. Throughout that process, you can tweak how you want the page to look, what data gets displayed in the layout, and more.
Pages has a flat-file bias, and doesn't require a database to work. The content you’ll render on your site is generally written using Markdown, but you can use any kind of data source, for example you could use, a Joomla component, a database table, a headless CMS or even a webservice like Airtable or Google Sheets.
For the rebuild of Joomlatools.com we needed a solution that would allow us to easily include, and update, content on our site. Using Joomla articles and modules would make the site very hard to manage. Pages solves this in an elegant and simple way, not to mention it's super fast and easy to work with too!
Joomlatools Pages is for website developers and designers who create bespoke Joomla sites and have experience with html, markdown, etc. If you know how to use notepad you can work with Pages, knowledge of PHP is not required to get started.
- Joomla 3.6.5
- PHP7
- Joomlatools Framework 3.4.3
Go to the root directory of your Joomla installation in command line and execute this command:
composer require joomlatools/pages --ignore-platform-reqs
Note: You need to use the --ignore-platform-reqs flag if not the installation will fail due to a mismatch in the platform constraint. Joomla's requires PHP 5.3.10 as minimum while Joomlatools Pages is set to minimum PHP7
You can find all the documentation for Joomlatools Pages in the wiki. Happy coding!
Joomlatools Pages is an open source, community-driven project. Contributions are welcome from everyone. We have contributing guidelines to help you get started.
See the list of contributors.
Joomlatools Pages is open-source software licensed under the GPLv3 license.
Keep track of development and community news.
- Follow @joomlatoolsdev on Twitter
- Join joomlatools/dev on Gitter
- Read the Joomlatools Developer Blog
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