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Re: Creating a minimalist blog with Jekyll Now

#21
post #14

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Good point. However, there is so much innovation in this space right now so I’m pretty sure that something like what you described will emerge.

The combination of Typora ( https://typora.io/ ) for writing markdown + `mkdocs serve` or `hugo serve` is pretty neat. Set up a gitlab-ci.yml that builds and pushes the final site to your hosted destination, that's it.

Image upload in Typora is done via some random hosting service IIRC.

Re: Creating a minimalist blog with Jekyll Now

#22
post #12

The real problem with any SSG is where to host and edit Markdown files and images for flexible spur of the moment content creation. I've built my own Wordpress-export-to-static solution to use the native iOS App as a workaround but it feels somewhat clunky — Same with having to run a headless CMS for this in the background; Surprisingly with all the gazillion of MD editors, no one has ever built one with live editing…

Do you still have a regular WordPress host though? Do you use WordPress.com?

I always wanted to do this but every solution requires some non-free PHP hosting alongside the static host. WordPress.com doesn’t let you customize it unless you pay and if you want to use it headlessly you have to build a non-WordPress template elsewhere.

I have a low-traffic low-edit WordPress site I want to staticize, but no solution is server-free.

Re: Creating a minimalist blog with Jekyll Now

#23
post #12

The real problem with any SSG is where to host and edit Markdown files and images for flexible spur of the moment content creation. I've built my own Wordpress-export-to-static solution to use the native iOS App as a workaround but it feels somewhat clunky — Same with having to run a headless CMS for this in the background; Surprisingly with all the gazillion of MD editors, no one has ever built one with live editing…

Do you still have a regular WordPress host though? Do you use WordPress.com? I always wanted to do this but every solution requires some non-free PHP hosting alongside the static host. WordPress.com doesn’t let you customize it unless you pay and if you want to use it headlessly you have to build a non-WordPress template elsewhere. I have a low-traffic low-edit WordPress site I want to staticize, but no solution is s…

Yes I use wp.com as a dumb backend with a somewhat blank template so SEs won't find it. Then pull all posts via the API, download images, etc. Render them via Jinja and upload them to Netlify.

Re: Creating a minimalist blog with Jekyll Now

#24
post #12

The real problem with any SSG is where to host and edit Markdown files and images for flexible spur of the moment content creation. I've built my own Wordpress-export-to-static solution to use the native iOS App as a workaround but it feels somewhat clunky — Same with having to run a headless CMS for this in the background; Surprisingly with all the gazillion of MD editors, no one has ever built one with live editing…

This is my exact feeling. I have a Hugo-powered blog, but like you said, I miss the ability to draft something quickly when I'm inspired. Right now, the best option I have found is self-hosting Ghost with some aggressive Cloudflare caching.

I considered using wp2static[0] before starting with Ghost. Have you published your exporter?

[0] https://github.com/leonstafford/wp2static

Re: Creating a minimalist blog with Jekyll Now

#25
post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The combination of Typora ( https://typora.io/ ) for writing markdown + `mkdocs serve` or `hugo serve` is pretty neat. Set up a gitlab-ci.yml that builds and pushes the final site to your hosted destination, that's it.

Image upload in Typora is done via some random hosting service IIRC.

Typora is a markdown editor. Hosting is done in Github, Gitlab etc. Typora is not a hosting solution afaik.

Re: Creating a minimalist blog with Jekyll Now

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post #12

The real problem with any SSG is where to host and edit Markdown files and images for flexible spur of the moment content creation. I've built my own Wordpress-export-to-static solution to use the native iOS App as a workaround but it feels somewhat clunky — Same with having to run a headless CMS for this in the background; Surprisingly with all the gazillion of MD editors, no one has ever built one with live editing…

I'd suggest you give Forestry (https://forestry.io) a try. It's a great CMS for static sites (incl. asset management) and it has a really nice preview system.

Re: Creating a minimalist blog with Jekyll Now

#27
post #8
post #2

Jekyll Now seems great, but there has been no github activity since 2018. Are there more actively maintained alternatives?

Are updates needed?

Maintenance is certainly useful even if there are no new features. I doubt the project is bug-free so no updates means no bugfixes either.

Re: Creating a minimalist blog with Jekyll Now

#28
post #26
post #12

The real problem with any SSG is where to host and edit Markdown files and images for flexible spur of the moment content creation. I've built my own Wordpress-export-to-static solution to use the native iOS App as a workaround but it feels somewhat clunky — Same with having to run a headless CMS for this in the background; Surprisingly with all the gazillion of MD editors, no one has ever built one with live editing…

I'd suggest you give Forestry ( https://forestry.io ) a try. It's a great CMS for static sites (incl. asset management) and it has a really nice preview system.

Tried since day one but it seems dead.

Re: Creating a minimalist blog with Jekyll Now

#29

Consider using the regular Jekyll at https://jekyllrb.com/ (the Jekyll Now fork is no longer maintained)

We run https://www.shoto.io completely on Jekyll. Until now, all modifications we needed were possible. I wonder if it is super future proof though. Once we start expanding the site with new features we might start "abusing" the setup.

In any case, I think the data is stored as MD and thus it can be probably easily migrated.

Re: Creating a minimalist blog with Jekyll Now

#30
post #12

The real problem with any SSG is where to host and edit Markdown files and images for flexible spur of the moment content creation. I've built my own Wordpress-export-to-static solution to use the native iOS App as a workaround but it feels somewhat clunky — Same with having to run a headless CMS for this in the background; Surprisingly with all the gazillion of MD editors, no one has ever built one with live editing…

Personally I write to myself on telegram, then take it from there once I'm on a computer. Doing detail editing on a phone is painful anyway.

I do this with email for to-dos ;)
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