This is part 7 of a series on preparing notACMS for open-source release. Part 6 covered the build pipeline. The original WordPress to Symfony series covers the migration itself. Part 4 explained how the local/ override pattern works in principle — Tw…
This is part 6 of a series on preparing notACMS for open-source release. Part 5 covered the open-source release checklist. The original WordPress to Symfony series covers the migration itself. The command ddev build produces a complete static site in…
This is part 5 of a series on preparing notACMS for open-source release. Part 4 covers the local override pattern. The original WordPress to Symfony series covers the migration itself. I spent a month preparing my personal website's codebase for open…
This is part 4 of a series on preparing notACMS for open-source release. Part 3 covers security vulnerabilities. The original WordPress to Symfony series covers the migration itself. You want to share a Symfony project template. Every user needs to c…
This is part 1 of a series on preparing notACMS for open-source release. The series covers testing, code review, security, the local override pattern, the build pipeline, theme system, search architecture, and the release checklist. The original Word…
1.2.0 started as a cleanup, turned into a full audit, and ended up being the most substantial notACMS release yet. Around 170 fixes across the core, both template trees, documentation, and JS — with a handful of deliberate breaking changes along the …
This is part 10 of a series on migrating holas.pl from WordPress to a custom Symfony-based static site generator. Part 9 covers the multilanguage system. Part 5 covered how Claude Code was used during the initial build — AGENTS.md as the AI's instruc…
This is part 9 of a series on migrating holas.pl from WordPress to a custom Symfony-based static site generator. Part 8 covers responsive images and scheduled posts. Adding a second language to a Symfony site usually means duplicating controllers, ha…
A WordPress site resizes uploaded images automatically. Scheduled posts have a "publish on" date picker in the editor. Both work without any custom code. On a static site, there's no server handling requests and no application layer checkin…
holas.pl scores 100 in Lighthouse's SEO category. What that actually checks: meta title is present, meta description is present, canonical URL is set, links are crawlable, the page is mobile-friendly. These are the minimum requirements — the things t…
holas.pl scores 100 in all four Lighthouse categories on mobile — Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices, and SEO. Mobile is the stricter test: slower simulated CPU, throttled network, tighter scoring thresholds. Getting all four to 100 there mea…
notACMS 1.1.0 landed on April 24, 1.1.1 two days later, and 1.1.2 followed about a week on. Three releases that change not what notACMS does, but how you start with it — and what you get out of the box. notACMS grew out of my own site and for the fir…
This is part 5 of a series on migrating holas.pl from WordPress to a custom Symfony-based static site generator. Part 4 covers the developer experience and deployment. Building holas.pl involved writing a fair amount of PHP, Twig, and SCSS — and maki…
This is part 4 of a series on migrating holas.pl from WordPress to a custom Symfony-based static site generator. Part 3 covers the contact form security. One of the goals for holas.pl was a development environment as simple as the production one. No …
Claude Code can connect to external tools through MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers — Sentry for production errors, JetBrains for IDE introspection, Context7 for library docs, Perplexity for web search. The problem: with six MCP servers available,…
This is part 3 of a series on migrating holas.pl from WordPress to a custom Symfony-based static site generator. Part 2 covers the architecture. holas.pl is a static site with one exception: the contact form. Every blog post, category page, and stati…
notACMS is a Symfony-based static site generator I built in early 2026 to replace 19 years of WordPress on holas.pl. No database, no CMS admin panel, no PHP involved in serving content. The entire site — blog posts, category pages, tag listings, arch…
This is part 2 of a series on migrating holas.pl from WordPress to a custom Symfony-based static site generator. Part 1 covers why WordPress had to go. After deciding to leave WordPress, the question was what to replace it with. Hugo, Jekyll, and Ele…
holas.pl ran on WordPress from 2007 to early 2026. Nineteen years. In that time WordPress grew from a straightforward blogging platform into something I barely recognize — and maintaining it had become more work than maintaining the actual content. T…
The project started during a remote Sylius setup — configured entirely over SSH from a phone. The process was repetitive enough to warrant automating, so I put together a DDEV boilerplate. It got shared publicly before I considered it finished, so I …