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Whisper

January 31, 2009 Stephanie Leary 2 Comments

I’ve been working on this off and on for the last several months, and I’m finally ready to kick it out to the world. I’ve adopted the long-dormant Whisper CMS and updated it with some new features. It’s still the same old Whisper, more or less. It doesn’t use a database, and it will still run on PHP 4. Future versions will probably require PHP 5, since the flat-file “database” as currently implemented is problematic and I’d like to move it to XML.

Whisper is the merest wisp of a CMS. It doesn’t do a whole lot, but what it does, it does elegantly. If you just want a web interface for updating a few simple pages, and/or you’re stuck on a web host that doesn’t give you a database, Whisper might be what you need.

You can read a little bit about Whisper’s history in the documentation and how I got involved over at the dev blog. There’s a forum (empty right now, of course) if you’d like to voice an opinion.

Kick the tires. Let me know what you think. Enjoy Whisper!

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  1. Jeremy Tolbert says

    January 31, 2009 at 9:25 pm

    Hey, cool! I will check this out.

    Reply
  2. Justine Larbalestier says

    February 1, 2009 at 3:58 am

    It looks FANTASTIC. Wow!

    Reply

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