[TriLUG] Blogging software recommendation

[Rogers, Matthew via TriLUG]

Checkout grav, it's a flat file CMS.  Way less security concerns than wordpress, and it looks pretty.  I made a site with this and it was super easy.  You basically just write your text like you normally would and use some markdown.

https://getgrav.org/


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From: TriLUG [mailto:trilug-bounces+matthew.rogers2=allscripts.com at trilug.org] On Behalf Of Igor Partola via TriLUG
Sent: Friday, January 6, 2017 5:34 PM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion <trilug at trilug.org>
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Blogging software recommendation

I have switched away from WordPress for personal blogging a few years ago.
Constantly keeping up with updates, poor performance, having to run PHP and MySQL just to serve mostly static content... I just got so tired of it.

Personally, I use Pelican because it's written in Python. But, you can't really go wrong with any of the ones listed at https://www.staticgen.com/.
I see Jakyll and Hugo mentioned quite a bit.

Now, this will take you more than an hour to set up, but likely less than a day. I developed my own custom theme for Pelican, but I believe you can now choose from a variety of free themes, and I suspect paid ones might already be out there for some of these.

You can host a completely static site like this son S3 for pennies a month:
no servers to administer, nothing to worry about at all.

Personally, if I was to choose a blogging platform today, I would go with one of these, or just pay WordPress.com their fee to host it for me with a custom domain. Administering WordPress yourself is just too much hassle.

Igor
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