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Re: WordPress Alternatives

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Post by jszymborski »

pabs3 wrote: post #6

Switching to a static site generator seems like the way to go for lots of sites, especially blog-only ones. Are there any graphical SSGs that non-technical users could run locally to generate a site and upload it to their web host?

I haven't used it since forever ago, but Lektor [0] is this weird in between. You need to be able to pip install and run `lektor serve` in the terminal but most else is done in the browser.

[0] https://www.getlektor.com/

Re: WordPress Alternatives

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Post by pabs3 »

jszymborski wrote: post #11
pabs3 wrote: post #6

Switching to a static site generator seems like the way to go for lots of sites, especially blog-only ones. Are there any graphical SSGs that non-technical users could run locally to generate a site and upload it to their web host?

I haven't used it since forever ago, but Lektor [0] is this weird in between. You need to be able to pip install and run `lektor serve` in the terminal but most else is done in the browser. [0] https://www.getlektor.com/

Sounds more like WordPress than what I was thinking :)

Re: WordPress Alternatives

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Post by yawnxyz »

I've just moved my stack Astro deployed on Deno Deploy and it's been very very fun and easy. Really like it. I just copied all my Svelte files over and it worked. I copied over all my Deno files and it worked. And it's building static pages onto Deno, effortlessly. And I'm just pulling in content from Notion and Airtable as CMS and caching on Deno KV, and that's also very very easy.

Re: WordPress Alternatives

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Post by Brajeshwar »

tiffanyh wrote: post #10

TextPattern use to a thing like around the same time WP got started. It’s also PHP based. https://textpattern.com/

If I remember correctly, TextPattern was done correctly compared to WordPress. Unfortunately, that meant it was more complex for most developers to go deeper. The community flocked to WordPress, and every other one became more of a niche.

Didn't they also have a Markdown-ish writing style? I liked that, and I used it as a plugin for WordPress for a very long time.

TextPatten went slow and now seems to have been chugging along well.

Re: WordPress Alternatives

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Post by oidar »

If you are looking for a no-nonsense, simple blog platform consider Bear[1] - It's super simple to use, and has been solid for me for the past year. Plus the support (and dev - Herman Martinus here on HN[2]) is responsive and friendly.

[1] https://bearblog.dev

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=HermanMartinus

Re: WordPress Alternatives

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Post by possibleworlds »

julienmarie wrote: post #5

Special mention to Processwire. Worked with it a few years ago and really loved it at the time. https://processwire.com/ Craft is great but a bit slow in my tests. They have a really powerful e-commerce offer though and is really flexible.

+1 for ProcessWire. I am not doing freelance dev anymore but for the small set of sites I still maintain I love doing updates for the ProcessWire installs and dread it with every other project. Anyone shopping for Wordpress alternatives should definitely check it out. The only project I’ve tried recently that is as fun, flexible and productive is Astro.

Re: WordPress Alternatives

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Post by JohnTHaller »

synergy20 wrote: post #7

is Drupal getting better for ordinary people to deploy? it was my choice 15 years ago it's sad python, rails,node never had a rival platform to replace WordPress over the years, long live php for the web

Drupal has gotten more difficult for 'ordinary' people to deploy. That's a big reason there are many times more sites still running Drupal 7 than there are running the current release: https://www.drupal.org/project/usage/drupal

The complexity compared with something like WordPress is a big part of the difference in install base. Drupal powers under a million websites (I run 3 of those). WordPress powers something north of 450 million websites.

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