
For ease of use and installation there really is nothing that comes close. I've been taking a few CMS systems out for a spin recently and whilst they're all commendable in their own ways, the time between download and installation with this was next to nothing compared to some of the alternative offerings.
Anyway, I've installed Summernote and the Blog and I'm all set to build my project around it... a few quick questions which might spare me some time.
1: Will I be able to use my own booking form solution as I'm rather heavily invested in PHP Mailer (https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer) and I'd like to continue using it... should that be a problem?
2: Images are a strange beast with this CMS, haha. I uploaded a few to the blog and I didn't see anywhere to add alt text and then I saw it was creating these massive base64 strings! I take it this is default behaviour and I can't change things to just work with files? There's no integration with srcset or anything like that I take it?
3: Was there a shop plugin? I'm sure I read about one but I can't seem to find it, has it been removed?
4: When I first log in, it does seem to take a very long time to check for updates, between 30 seconds and a minute, is that normal, is there any way to change this to check once a month or something? As a dev it's fine but I'm worried my clients will get the hump if they're regularly updating and have to wait for an extended period on every daily login.
5: For the blog, I'm having some choppy results adding images in the description, sometimes it works fine, other times it seems to scramble the html and I find the image is stuck outside the description block. Funnily enough I've just tested it now with a few articles and all seems stable, but if you can offer any insight into why that might be happening, I'd be happy to hear from you.
6: Any chance of having an option to add tags to the blog? I was hoping I could use meta keywords as a means of working with tags, but for blog articles, it doesn't seem possible.
Anyhoo, that's quite enough to be getting on with and I'm genuinely grateful for the work you do with this CMS as it does appear to be well supported and robust, laser focussed on what it wants to achieve and achieving it well. I promise I'll buy a T-Shirt if it proves to be a match for my project, haha.
Thanks.