Wolf CMS has some common ground with the old Frog project. As such, former Frog users may consider to migrate to Wolf CMS for one reason or another.
Since Wolf CMS is continuing at a steady pace, it is advisable not to wait too long with any migration.
There are some general tips you may want to follow in migrating from Frog to Wolf CMS. Please be aware though that these tips and this document cannot take into account any customizations you may have done on the Frog core or plugins code.
This is a suggested migration scenario. Please be aware that we cannot take any responsibility for any possible data loss that may occur. Also please be aware that this scenario does not take into account any possible customizations you may have done to the database structure, Frog core code or Frog plugins.
Please be aware that this migration scenario assumes you migrate from Frog 0.9.5 stable to Wolf CMS 0.5.5 stable!
This upgrade scenarios re-uses the old Frog database and its contents. This should work flawlessly, however, it does mean you will not have the new Layouts available to you.
Should re-using the database not work or if you want to have all of the data that comes with Wolf CMS by default, you will need to remove the old Frog database, install from scratch using a clean database and then carefully copy over the contents of the old Frog database for each table.
For obvious reasons, this is a much more time-consuming and risky scenario.
In order to move from Frog 0.9.5 to the current version of Wolf CMS, you need to move sequentially through the single step ugrades. Old versions of Wolf CMS can still be downloaded from the old Google Code Wolf CMS repository.
The upgrade steps are:
Each ZIP contains a file called updating.txt which contains the instructions for that single-step upgrade.
Wolf CMS 0.5.5 is completely compatible with Frog 0.9.5.
For a full list of what's new in Wolf CMS 0.5.5, see this blog post.
Yes. Wolf CMS 0.5.5 fully supports clean URLs. (Like in Frog, you just have to enable it in ”.htaccess” file and config.php)
Wolf CMS creates nice/clean looking URLs like:
See the relevant wiki entry for more details.
You can achieve similar functionality with “page parts”. The “content elements” or “blocks” are more like ”snippets” in Wolf - small (or even large) bits of code/content which can be called on any page, but edited in one single place. There are a couple of snippets created and in use by default in Wolf CMS, so that gives you an idea of how they work.
Yes, after renaming your admin folder you need to alter the name used by Wolf CMS in config.php.
Starting Wolf CMS 0.7.0 the admin folder no longer exists and you can determine the name of your administration section by simply changing the appropriate setting in the config.php file.