If there’s a book you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
After moving to HTMLy, I missed a local commenting system. My needings are basic: I just need a very simple one, possibly based on flat files, not relying on external commenting systems. HTMLy only choices were Facebook and Diqus, none local. So I decided to write one for myself, ending in a slightly modified HTMLy 3.3.1 version.
After (finally) choosing HTMLy as CMS and Occasio as theme, I started playing around with the layout to adapt it to my taste. Created a new Ovi theme from Occasio, and started modyfying it. Not much work, just some fix around with CSS to set round corners, changed the banner images position, added some trick to handle my previous content the way I liked.
Time to move away from my previous CMS. Joomla is getting more and more commercial, open source plugins start lacking (other than the "free" underpowered version of commercial ones) and I'm getting sick to update the template I was actually using (Purity III) to match the new Joomla version, to find out there are many little things to be fixed and changed.
Emidio 08 November 2025 Published on GitHub - https://github.com/Emidio - the modded HTMLy 3.1.1 and the Ovi theme with comments integration.
Fred 07 November 2025 Finally, someone with enough technical coding knowledge to set up a comment system for this application. I anxiously await further information (where to download) etc. It is looking awesome.
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08 November 2025
Published on GitHub - https://github.com/Emidio - the modded HTMLy 3.1.1 and the Ovi theme with comments integration.
07 November 2025
Finally, someone with enough technical coding knowledge to set up a comment system for this application. I anxiously await further information (where to download) etc. It is looking awesome.