{"id":270,"date":"2018-04-04T15:03:20","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T15:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vassarspaces.net\/support\/?p=270"},"modified":"2019-10-24T18:03:07","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T18:03:07","slug":"grav","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vassarspaces.net\/support\/uncategorized\/grav\/","title":{"rendered":"Grav"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Grav<\/b>\u00a0is a content management system (CMS) or, said another way, it\u2019s an application to make websites. But differs from other CMSs like Drupal or WordPress in its underlying technology. While it\u2019s a PHP app like those two, unlike them it does not have a database. All data is written directly to files rather than stored and retrieved from a database. This is known as a flat-file system and it can help with performance given numerous database calls can slow down sites.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why and when would you use Grav?<\/strong>\u00a0Grav should maybe be reserved for the technically-savvy\u00a0user. It\u2019s not that Grav is particularly difficult (every CMS has a learning curve) but rather it gets really interesting when you can integrate it into Github using the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/getgrav.org\/blog\/git-sync-plugin\" data-versionurl=\"http:\/\/bavatuesdays.com\/amber\/cache\/83689baa046b1bad2c7194c16ad5fd98\/\" data-versiondate=\"2018-03-25T18:15:45+00:00\" data-amber-behavior=\"\">Github Sync<\/a>\u00a0plugin, which syncs everything on your Grav site to a Github repository for others to contribute to, clone, or fork. Grav also requires a familiarity with <a href=\"http:\/\/kirkstrobeck.github.io\/whatismarkdown.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Markdown<\/a>, a lightweight Markup language, so that&#8217;s something to be aware of as well.<\/p>\n<p>You can learn more about Grav <a href=\"https:\/\/getgrav.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grav\u00a0is a content management system (CMS) or, said another way, it\u2019s an application to make websites. But differs from other CMSs like Drupal or WordPress in its underlying technology. While it\u2019s a PHP app like those two, unlike them it does not have a database. All data is written directly to files rather than stored [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vassarspaces.net\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vassarspaces.net\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vassarspaces.net\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vassarspaces.net\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vassarspaces.net\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vassarspaces.net\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433,"href":"https:\/\/vassarspaces.net\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions\/433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vassarspaces.net\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vassarspaces.net\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vassarspaces.net\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}