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I went with Wordpress after a blogging guide suggested to minimize time spent messing with the blogging software, because messing with blogging software isn't blogging.
Static HTML. The last thing I need is to worry about keeping blog software up to date so it doesn’t get hacked.
and
everywhere really got in the way of my flow.I also like hugo a lot but never got the time to setup my blog on it.
- NGINX
- jrnl - (static site generator I made that copies the transformed markdown to the NGINX server)
It was mostly as a learning exercise, but it's a pretty flexible stack, and I'm a fan of the Wagtail admin panel; didn't really feel the need to customize anything there.
My personal blog: https://www.encona.com/ Built using: - gatsby (static site generator) - netlify CMS (git-based headless CMS) - GitHub (git remote for netlify) It was dead easy to set this up, as someone had already done the work: https://github.com/alxshelepenok/gatsby-starter-lumen I tried to set up something similar from scratch myself, using Strapi as the CMS, but I found myself re-inventing too many wheels (e.g…
I have an identical setup to this, painless to deploy updates/blog posts and zero cost. I was previously using Jekyll, but moved over to Gatsby a few months ago and have enjoyed the built-in features of Gatsby and it’s surrounding ecosystem so far. I have also considered integrating a git based CMS like Netlify CMS, but because it’s so easy to make new blog posts with just a git commit and a push I haven’t taken the…
- I don't need to think about filenames
- It gives me a nice preview
- I can edit markdown as either plain text or rich text, and switch between them with a toggle
- (Most important) I don't need to worry about whether I've properly filled in the 'frontmatter' section at the top of the file
The format of the frontmatter is indicated to Netlify CMS by the existence of a simple config file in your repo. So it should be easy to give it a try if you want:
https://github.com/alxshelepenok/gatsby-starter-lumen/blob/m...
Hugo for my blog, but I am redoing everything with Gatsby.js now. My course platform uses Next.js for server-side rendering + Firebase. When I launched it, I have written up a longer article about my choices: https://www.robinwieruch.de/how-to-build-your-own-course-pla...