JuniorLearnsToCode

Recently, I was creating a simple services website in WordPress for a friend. I haven't touched WordPress in 5-6 years, but I still recall a few things about it. At that time, I was trying to get some freelance work on the side, and WordPress seemed like a good choice.  I picked up some PHP along the way and worked for a few smaller clients via Upwork, one of the most exciting projects was one where I got to make a custom template for that client. Other gigs were mostly about configurational stuff, figuring out why certain plugins are causing issues, writing some customer CSS here and there, those sorts of things. Image borrowed from WIP Fix It I remembered that after figuring out how some of the more custom things in WordPress felt actually easier, like writing a bit of code to get something to work, than using stuff like visual page builder plugins. Each such plugin had its own way of doing things, and you had to learn how it does things, which, while not really too difficult, do...

Sometimes when you use a certain technology a lot and it becomes a part of your regular routine, it can lose some of it's appeal for a while. I've been using WordPress a lot in the past few months and I realized that I need to have short break from it and to try out something new, something different. So since it's October I figured it would be fitting to try out the OctoberCMS! The installation itself is pretty similar to WordPress famous 5 minute install process, there are two options: via installer (which is easier) and by cloning the official repository. Before installing you should check if you meet the minimum system requirements:  PHP version 7.0 or higher PDO PHP Extension cURL PHP Extension OpenSSL PHP Extension Mbstring PHP Library ZipArchive PHP Library GD PHP Library There were two oddities that I noticed:  even thought it's made using Laravel OctoberCMS uses Twig as it's template engine instead of Blade and the second thing was the ...