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> No lonely text box, nor a bloated Gutenberg editor in sight. Just a simple WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor so you can write to your heart's content Have written daily for the last 20+ years. At this point I refuse to use any CMS that doesn't have an editor that is not at least as good as Gutenberg. What WYSIWYG editor do you use? _Edit_: it's Suneditor. Not my idea of a good editor, and I don't really…
Can it be self-hosted? Is it open-source? Is the WYSIWYG editor custom-built, or does it use CKEditor or similar projects? What about media management? Is there a place for a simple CMS? E.g. developers usually prefer simple static site generators, such as Eleventy.
Honest feedback: I’m on mobile and the experience isn’t good. Is that something that’s being addressed?
First, hats off for making banner blog. I've made three blogging platforms for clients (one old one based on Zope, one based on Django and a static blog generator written in Go). Each time I've built one I'm always reminded of the depth of the rabbit hole, and each blogging platform was built because WordPress was bad at a certain thing, and the customer felt strongly that a plug in wasn't the answer (the first one,…
I have seen, used, and have built themes for quite a lot of blogging platforms. I also started all the way from Blogspot, to MovableType, to WordPress to the simplest one (current) written in Markdown with an idea to even further simplify it. Here is a personal promotional plug for an upcoming idea that a friend and I are working on. Right now, we are reaching out only to my connections, founder cohorts, and people I…
Oh and I was hoping for something to selfhost / open source :(
That’s cool you made this site. But I don’t think Wordpress sucks at all. It’s great in that it’s open source, runs everywhere, is easy to use, and super extensible. I still recommend it to people who want to blog and it works out well. It’s especially nice as it doesn’t lock you into a saas like wix or square space or lots of other $10+/month services. Personally, I just like markdown and jekyll as it’s easy enough…
> It’s especially nice as it doesn’t lock you into a saas like wix or square space or lots of other $10+/month services But people need hosting, and that's primarily the selling point of using a paid closed source WYSIWIG alternative. WP gets a bad rap because people buy terrible shared hosting to keep it cheap. At some point they will also need to open up Cpanel or some domain management UI to fix something and UX-w…
There’s one wix host. You’re never getting your data out of them.
Also that means Wordpress is or can be near free. I’ve paid $30/year for a random cpanel host for decades (same price, woot!). I think I host multiple Wordpress sites for friends or old corworkers. I don’t charge them anything. I don’t even know how many I host. I don’t care. So it’s free to them.
Or if I wanted to host a standalone site, $3/month is cheap. And I can port to anywhere.
Also, Wordpress hosts for $10/month too.
That’s cool you made this site. But I don’t think Wordpress sucks at all. It’s great in that it’s open source, runs everywhere, is easy to use, and super extensible. I still recommend it to people who want to blog and it works out well. It’s especially nice as it doesn’t lock you into a saas like wix or square space or lots of other $10+/month services. Personally, I just like markdown and jekyll as it’s easy enough…
WordPress sucks if you're writing a custom theme or plugin. Their codebase is old and it follows outdated standards (e.g.: they use array() instead of []... in 2023, really?). But , if you're using WordPress to publish a simple website, I think the most recent versions are great. The new Guntenberg full site editor is easy to use and it lets you customize your entire website easily, without the need to rely on custom…
It’s not the sexiest, but it gets the job done. I’m chalking this kind of sentiment up to people who think PHP isn’t good enough. 1 million times to one, PHP is good enough and my imagined unique snowflake idea doesn’t really need anything special.
This is very similar in concept to https://bearblog.dev