WordPress for Google App Engine?

I love WordPress. A big fan. But then I once-upon-a-time used to be a huge fan of PHP, and then I’ve grown up. I know people will kill me for that statement. ;-)

But the fact of the matter is PHP still has serious issues. And most recently, I can’t use it to run WordPress at Google App Engine, something that’s amazingly great for the starters who want to setup quick-and-not-so-dirty app.

I thought… would it be good to have WordPress for GAE? I came across Vosao – Open Source CMS for GAE/J. And I loved it immediately. Has a long way to go, and I do not see any active development on the same… surprised, what happened to the team.

StackOverflow has a question – What CMS runs on Google App Engine, but I personally didn’t like any of them.

And then I thought again… how about writing my own CMS with persistence in a Non-Relational Store with plug-in model so that I can run it on any store, be it GAE’s Data Store, MongoDB or Amazon DynamoDB or whatever.

Let me see if I can hold on my thoughts and really get on with it… At the moment, no promises! :-)

May 11, 2012  Tags: , , ,  Posted in: Technology

2 Responses

  1. Ahmad Akmal - July 16, 2012

    Hey, do you still hold you thoughts on this idea?
    I would love to know any updates :)
    Btw, I was looking for GAE cms.

    Thanks for your short review on this.

  2. mastergaurav - July 17, 2012

    Hi Ahmad,

    I still hold on to this idea…

    The name of the project is minow. I haven’t made the code public, yet, since it’s still in very infancy.

    You can monitor the progress updates at http://www.m10v.com/topic/technology/blog-engine/minow/ or http://www.m10v.com/tag/minow

    - Gaurav

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