I started programming BlogTheque 3 years ago, exactly on December 19, 2021!
What was initially supposed to be just the creation of a PHP script to create invoices in PDF format with customer management has become, over the days and the game of programming, a complete CMS.
More than twenty people and testers are using it at the moment and it is fully functional on the end-user side.
If version 1.00 is close (the latest release is 0.9905), it remains to set up and program an update system as well as multilingual.
BlogTheque aims to be as simple and complete as possible for end users. On the other hand, it is up to the webmasters to take care of the installation of the CMS, the sites, the maintenance, the backups and the updates... I would not want to fall into the pitfalls of other CMS and in particular WordPress which try to make end users believe that everything is simple...
Needless to say, BlogTheque is multi-site, that is to say that with a single installation, the webmaster can manage dozens of sites.
Installing and configuring BlogTheque, if we take into account the installation of the Web server (Linux Apache MySql Php) takes a few hours. Subsequently, the creation of a new site is then limited to a few manipulations and the necessary operations on the DNS of the domain name and to generate the SSL certificate.
There is still work to be done on the drawing board to arrive at the result as I had initially imagined it and since IT projects are, by definition, never finished and are constantly evolving, the question then arises for me about future versions of the CMS.
So, I imagine a path towards version 2.00 which will consist of:
- correcting bugs (if there are any left...);
- rereading the code of all pages in order to optimize it;
- adding minor features when requested by users.
- and especially with the integration of a template system to allow webmasters to deeply modify the appearance of the sites created.
- ...