I hate Wordpress

I just create an html template by hand and use PHP to echo it out with modifications.

How about actually learning how JS, AJAX and PHP?

Pick one.

Werc: werc.cat-v.org/

Do you by any chance live in Somalia?

This.

Jekyll or something else without a database requirement.

do you really need a dynamic website?

have you asked yourself whether you really need PHP at all?
quora.com/What-is-an-Static-site-generator?share=1

Why can't you drop dead

Get a job.

Wordpress

Seems to me it should be easy to whip up a shell script that lets you write a blog post, add tags or whatever inane shit you want to add, then takes that and generates an html page and updates any other pages it needs to.

Yes. I accept a series of file uploads and shuffle them around on the backend, execute some binaries (this is done using a script that polls the /tmp/ directory- I'd never use shell_exec in PHP) and then post a link to the processed file, so actually having something run on the backend is a necessity, though I admit that PHP is probably a poor choice. (not enough time to really learn a new backend language/API). The "echo html template" part is just within a "require" on all of the pages. It echoes all of my CSS and HTML and is constant across the entire website, almost like CSS is.

I built a CLI version of that in sepples back in 8th grade. Wish I'd kept that; it was my first real project.

learnbchs.org/ is better

I use LCHS and didn't even know it. I've really been liking it so far.

oops. I mean LHLS. I use lighttpd, not httpd.

aw damn I fucked it up again.

LCLS

Linux, C, Lighttpd, and SQLite.

just fuck off

Wordpress is shit but it combined with P2 theme is still exactly what I need for my own use case. Even though P2 is strange and basically hacked on

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I'm here to stay

Pelican is better in my opinion.
github.com/getpelican/pelican

But either way, static content is the way to go, it is how the web was meant to work.

I'll just post here instead of starting a new thread. I'm building a website for my band and am using Wordpress. I could use Jekyll. However I might need a database if we ever add a login system to our website or need a shop. I'm building my own theme with html, css and a little php. Is this a good idea or will my site come out overly bloated? Would it be wise to avoid plugins? I'm pretty new to web Design

One advantage of wordpress-like system (with db) over something like jekyll is that your content creators don't have to learn or rely on someone to do version control / deployment of the new content.