Grav on myByways

Migrating from Grav to Hugo

Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Due to issues with updating PHP on my shared hosting which I cannot be bothered to resolve, I am now considering migrating from Grav to Hugo.

Modifying the Grav Feeds Plugin Output

Sat, 05 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

There are a couple of things I don’t like with the feeds produced by the standard Grav Syndication Feed Plugin. Fortunately, the feeds are generated via Twig templates that can easily be customized!

New look for the new year 2022

Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Happy New Year! A big welcome to 2022! I’ve finally updated the look of my blog with a new theme. Well, not really… you see, I’m not very creative, and so, my theme pretty much remains the same… just more purple.

Testing Grav 1.7 in a container

Fri, 22 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

When I first used Grav, “a modern open source flat-file CMS,” to host this site, I setup a local development environment using macOS’s built-in Apache and PHP. But this is getting harder with each macOS release, so it’s time to use a Docker container instead.

Local Grav PHP ZIP Extension workaround on macOS Catalina

Tue, 28 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000

The Apache and PHP bundled with macOS Catalina 10.15 does not include the PHP ZIP extension. Grav (specifically, the Problems Plugin) detects this issue, and Grav will not run! Here is a workaround.

Fixing Grav Admin Panel URL redirect on a local computer

Tue, 17 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000

While testing out Grav, it’s quite easy to setup a local instance on a macOS computer, since macOS already comes with a suitable web server (Apache 2.4.x and PHP 7.x). I never realized I didn’t actually describe how I set it up, but just wanted to point out one important change.

My custom Grav theme

Mon, 20 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000

I re-designed my blog template using a new CSS framework called Bluma, re-developed all JavaScript without jQuery and customized some plugins. This was quite a journey, so this post is going to be quite long too!

Optimizing Grav page speed

Thu, 04 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

I’m usually quite pedantic when it comes to minimizing code and optimizing web page performance. I was a bit surprised to find that this blog’s page speed was far from ideal! Google PageSpeed Insights returned a very low score for this blog. Back when I started this blow, I must’ve neglected optimization, as I was too busy learning Grav, modifying my template, etc.

Grav with PHP 5.6 ini_set() fix

Sun, 01 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000

On my hosting provider, there is a slight tweak needed to get Grav to run on PHP 5.6. Here’s the solution:

Grav updated to 1.1.1

Sun, 17 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000

I just updated Grav to 1.1.1!

Installing Grav on OS X and cPanel Hosting

Fri, 16 Oct 2015 00:00:00 +0000

I opted to install Grav via the ZIP package, as documented here. My hosting provider does not give me shell access, so I would not be using git or the Grav Package Manager (GPM), but limiting myself to FTP or the cPanel File Manager.

Why I chose Grav CMS

Tue, 13 Oct 2015 00:00:00 +0000

In starting this blog, I installed and tested various Blogging and Content Management Systems (CMS), finally settling on Grav. Here’s why I like Grav.