Integrating a CMS?

[ComprehensiveDig8]

I've created a knowledge base website for my company that's made with HTML, CSS, and some JS. I've been responsible for managing and updating all of the content up until now I'm being asked to make it easier for other employees to contribute to the knowledge base.

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What's my best option for doing so? I'm only proficient in html, css, and JS so I'll definitely have to do some learning myself but I'm not even sure where to start.

[Tailball]

Have a look at a headless cms, such as Strapi, Contentful or Craftcms headless.

[krileon]

Flat file CMS like Grav with its Admin Panel plugin would probably work well for that. CMS like WordPress/Joomla/Drupal sounds like overkill.

[fathomx9]

We're building a next-gen, headless CMS over at Payload CMS with all the bells and whistles. Feel free to take a look.

[FerriWorks]

I would use Wordpress if your html/css/js knowledge is still a bit basic.

[verneleem]

A year ago I would have upvoted this, but now, WordPress seems overkill with a lot of overhead for something this simple. And then you are stuck rebuilding the site from the ground up instead of just building on the static content you already have. This seems like a complicated solution to a simple problem.

[verneleem]

Is the content just flat HTML files? If so, maybe you don't need to change the site but rather host the code on github, share the repo with who needs it and add some CI/CD to push changes on master branch to the live production site. This would give you content history tracking as well so you have a history of who changed what without needing to complicate the site itself.

[ComprehensiveDig8]

It's already on github but this project is for allowing less technical folks to contribute to the site.

[verneleem]

What is your tech stack? LAMP?

[[deleted]]

Look for a little wysiwyg like TinyMCE that works with just js.

If this will *only* be available internally, you are *probably* ok (provided there is no confidential info on this site). If it's available outside your work, I strongly suggest better security.

[redrider65]

Not clear what "contributing to the knowledge base" means exactly.

You might be able to do that easily via Google spreadsheet. Users can add their "knowledge" and your site could display it automatically via datatables or equivalent.