[TriLUG] Blogging software recommendation

[Igor Partola via TriLUG]

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