The next big project that I’ve started working on is going to be an open source ColdFusion blogging app known as ColdPress. ColdPress will do it’s best to be a WordPress clone for ColdFusion. Planned features will include themes & plugins, and if all goes well you should be able to modify current WordPress themes [...]
The next big project that I’ve started working on is going to be an open source ColdFusion blogging app known as ColdPress. ColdPress will do it’s best to be a WordPress clone for ColdFusion.
Planned features will include themes & plugins, and if all goes well you should be able to modify current WordPress themes to work with ColdPress.
To sign up to recieve updates about ColdPress, visit ColdPressBlog.com – Open Source ColdFusion Blog
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hmm, we have mangoblog as a wordpress replacement… and it’s nice emade
there would a wide field of open source applications we don’t have yet im cfml like e-commerce or an enterprise forum
Daniel, using Mango actually inspired me to write this. Mango is great but the way it writes it’s config files and how it uses the custom tags for the skins makes it a pain for me to use in a day to day environment. I do agree that we need an enterprise level forum, e-commerce I’m not so sure since it could very greatly depending on what your selling, but I suppose a bare bones ecommerce ‘skeleton’ if you will would be handy.
+1 for building the growing community which already exists around Mango (which already has theming and a plugin system) than try to come out with another WP replacement. I’m curious as to why specifically you find Mango a “pain” to use. It seems like contributing an existing project to address those pain points would be much less work than starting from scratch.
Of course, you’re free do to as you will. But in my opinion our small CFML community will never be able to build and support a blog engine in the way PHP has done with WordPress if everyone writes their own instead of contributes to a community project.
great article. I will bookmark this