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Re: Ask HN: Looking for headless CMS recommendation

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Post by whatamidoingyo »

whatamidoingyo wrote: post #86
type0 wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why not Ghost instead?

I just set Ghost up last night via the Digital Ocean droplet. The site is up, but I'm having difficulties during the sign up/subscribe process. Set up mailgun, edited the config file with credentials, but the problem persists. Hoping to get it solved this weekend when I have more time to look into it; but I definitely agree, Ghost is awesome!

Update: Got it working. Apparently Digital Ocean has some SMTP ports blocked by default. I must say, Ghost is incredible! It's built with one of my all-time favorite templating engines (handlebars) as well, so setting up custom themes would be a breeze.

Re: Ask HN: Looking for headless CMS recommendation

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Post by yoyo250 »

dizlexic wrote: post #46
geocrasher wrote: post #42

The answer isn't headless WordPress. It's WordPress. You're building something for a volunteer community, which means at some point you'll be gone and somebody will be wondering how the heck to manage the site with this "custom" setup that they can't figure out with chatgpt or a youtube video. Set them up for the future, not for the now. WordPress. Just WordPress. Reference: 26+ years in hosting, 4 years in WordPress…

I hate to agree because I hate WordPress, but when building something for others especially in a volunteer community it's still the go-to solution. Pros, a ton of docs, easy non-technical customization, long term support, many already experienced users, made for basically exactly what you're doing. Cons, it's WordPress, and the actual wp-loop is a nightmare of bad choices.

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Re: Ask HN: Looking for headless CMS recommendation

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Post by akudha »

geocrasher wrote: post #42

The answer isn't headless WordPress. It's WordPress. You're building something for a volunteer community, which means at some point you'll be gone and somebody will be wondering how the heck to manage the site with this "custom" setup that they can't figure out with chatgpt or a youtube video. Set them up for the future, not for the now. WordPress. Just WordPress. Reference: 26+ years in hosting, 4 years in WordPress…

I'd suggested wordpress.com, instead of self hosting. Where I work, they went with self hosting for a simple blog (we aren't doing anything fancy, just simple news/articles blog). It has been a headache as no team has the interest or time to keep it updated.
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