Toto is a nice simple script that publishes static files to heroku via git. It's interesting, and hackish, and fun, but hardly a WP killer.
Toto is blogging software, has a full blown CMS, through git, is easy to host (Heroku), and is easy to use.
Hence, they serve the same purpose, which is of publishing and managing articles in the cloud.
Wordpress is for the masses this is like jekyll alternative rather than wordpress killer.
This was a long-standing request (http://disqus.disqus.com/how_do_i_import_comments) but it seems there is a solution for the past year (http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/give-your-wordpress-comments-a-...) Tell us if you try it out.
Admittedly, it doesn't run on RoR, so you can't just pop it up on Heroku, but Bloxsom has been around for years and years, and has a stable group of maintainers on Sourceforge.
Your link goes to someone's personal homepage. :)
Thanks.
It's a WordPress install with a custom frontend. So you get a mind-blowing admin interface, and light-speed frontend. Updates to the frontend are a PITA when it comes to syncing new features with the backend, but for the basics (posts, comments, pingbacks, and.... that's it! It's a BLOG!!) it does the job.
Good for you to have it.
There are two reasons why WordPress is wildly successful...
(1) It's built in PHP so it can run on anything. Any webhost out there will run it, and 99% of them will have a "one-click-install" button for you.
(2) It has a pretty damn good admin interface and theme/plugin community. Anyone can install themes and plugins, either thru the interface or with some simple FTP knowledge.
All of this aside... I can't effing stand WordPress. I've been developing for it since it first branched off from the b2 blogging engine many moons ago. For a developer, building a complete site in WP generally consists of hacking plugins to work with one another, or writing your own modifications.
I built this site (http://arbesko.com) in WordPress because the client wanted it. Only about 10% of it is WP. I extended the URL rewriting system and wrote all of my own template code, most of the queries were written by hand. An experience WP dev might frown upon this because of "future incompatibility" but honestly, if you want to write good shit you're not gonna find it with WP's built in tools. The only thing left that isn't my own is pretty much the DB.
For a super simple blog, go with WP. For a "WP as a CMS site", don't fall for that bullshit. Write it in something else, anything else. Write it from scratch in Perl for all I care, just stay away from using WP for anything more than a blog and/or very simple site.
And again, these kinds of things (toto, jekyll, etc...) are fun for hackers, but they will never kill WP. If you want to kill WP you're going to need to attack it from the perspective of an "SEO Marketing social media expert from Tampa FL who has 2 kids and runs the Tampa Tweetup every weekend", and not that of a hacker. The most you can expect from someone is installing an FTP client and uploading it. These people don't play with terminals or git.
Also, the "future incompatibility" is not that bad with wordpress, just look out for "deprecated" in the source.
So, I made a little Sinatra app with an ActiveRecord adapter that can understand the WP db schema.
It's just a hack to support my immediate needs at this point, but I think the concept is a good one.
http://github.com/trevorturk/trevorturk
Holler if it looks interesting to you.
<meta name="description" content="<%= @context[:description] || 'Default description' %>" />
Definitely a wordpress killer from an ease of use perspective, or not...
