[TriLUG] Blogging software recommendation

[Chris Short via TriLUG]

I love Ghost tryghost.org

Markdown editor with lots of themes but minimal overhead.

On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 5:51 PM Brian Bouterse via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> I use Jekyll, and I really like it. For the theme, we found an open source
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> theme we liked and ported our content into it. We also host for free with
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> github pages[0], which I also recommend.
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> [0]: http://pages.github.com/
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> Brian
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> On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 5:34 PM, Igor Partola via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org
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> wrote:
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> > I have switched away from WordPress for personal blogging a few years
> ago.
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> > Constantly keeping up with updates, poor performance, having to run PHP
> and
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> > MySQL just to serve mostly static content... I just got so tired of it.
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> >
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> > Personally, I use Pelican because it's written in Python. But, you can't
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> > really go wrong with any of the ones listed at
> https://www.staticgen.com/.
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> > I see Jakyll and Hugo mentioned quite a bit.
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> > Now, this will take you more than an hour to set up, but likely less
> than a
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> > day. I developed my own custom theme for Pelican, but I believe you can
> now
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> > choose from a variety of free themes, and I suspect paid ones might
> already
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> > be out there for some of these.
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> > You can host a completely static site like this son S3 for pennies a
> month:
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> > no servers to administer, nothing to worry about at all.
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> > Personally, if I was to choose a blogging platform today, I would go with
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> > one of these, or just pay WordPress.com their fee to host it for me with
> a
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> > custom domain. Administering WordPress yourself is just too much hassle.
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> > Igor
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