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I'm curious what blogging platforms out there do you consider to be the best. Features like Markdown and syntax highlighting would help.
In the past I used Ghost, WordPress, and I even built my own blogging engine. I don't want to spend a month creating a new one so I'm looking for a complete solution.
Which blogging platform do you prefer?
Wordpress just works and has an active community and a ton of plug-ins which lets you focus on generating content and not fighting constantly with the tool. There are plenty of inexpensive hosting options for Wordpress, and lots of templates to get moving.
If the goal is to blog, use what is popular and already works so that you are blogging and not constantly focused on the platform. The more time you deal with the platform the less you focus on actually posting which is what is important.
FWIW, I don't particularly like Wordpress, and there are parts I downright despise, but it works and gets the job done.
- https://radarthemes.com/theme/trooper-lite/ (free) - https://wordpress.org/themes/trooper-lite/ (free)
WordPress is a fantastic cms and I highly recommend it for blogging. If you do not care about additional functionality then blot.im was a great service.
jekyll hosted on github.io or netlify seems to be in vogue
I still always seem to fall back to Wordpress because the idea is to create content, not play with the software. Wordpress just works and has an active community and a ton of plug-ins which lets you focus on generating content and not fighting constantly with the tool. There are plenty of inexpensive hosting options for Wordpress, and lots of templates to get moving. If the goal is to blog, use what is popular and al…
I focus on choosing the "right" platform now so that I wont have to think about it 5 years from now.
I have had horror experiences with Wordpress in the past and that is why I avoid it.
I faced this same decision a couple years back and one thing I would say is I have tried flat file services like blot ( https://blot.im ) and even building my own CMS and ultimately just ended up wasting time as I needed more functionality over time. I built https://radarthemes.com which I used to build blogging themes for developers, creators, and for myself. I even released a free theme for others who faced the sam…
version controlled, can run clojure, js and python code on page, can fork and submit pull request.
markdown format with equation and emoji support.
jekyll hosted on github.io or netlify seems to be in vogue
I have explored multiple JAMstack solutions such as Gatsby, Nuxtjs, HUGO and Jekyll with Netlify or Contentful but having to learn a front-end framework from scratch will take time that I believe is not worth it for a blog