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Re: WordPress Alternatives

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Post by tomjen3 »

Brajeshwar wrote: post #23

If one is looking for a simple/personal blog and wants to write in plain-text Markdown, one should consider Jekyll on GitHub Pages[1]. The beauty is that one does not need to worry about setting up Jekyll on the local machine. Just write and push to Github. If one wants to skip that, just go to GitHub and write there; a version of VSCode is built in there. This also allows one to carry (take out) their content anywhe…

Its solid advice if that is your problem and if you are migrating from a standard wordpress. I ran into another problem - I wanted a static site[0].

I tried some of the static hosting engines, including Jekyll, but they always seemed to want to force my site into a blog format. Yeah with some work they could partially be twisted into what I wanted, but only partially.

Do you know of a static website builder that builds websites, and not blogs?

[0]: The difference to me is that my content should never have a date associated with it, and the landing page should be a landing page, not a list of recent pages.

Re: WordPress Alternatives

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Post by todotask »

You're going to encounter various limitations with the CMS that it was designed for. I'll say this once: if we need a complete rebuild in 2025 and beyond, the Astro web framework could be the core engine due to its unopinionated nature and support for many UI components, including the latest addition, VanJS. It's seem like a well designed to keep things as simple as possible and still open to community feedback.

Of course, you could host it on Netlify, Cloudflare, and Vercel using adapters from Astro. Although it's not a traditional CMS, it's capable of serving as the core engine that should serve well for 99% of use cases out there.

Re: WordPress Alternatives

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Post by hombre_fatal »

tomjen3 wrote: post #31
Brajeshwar wrote: post #23

If one is looking for a simple/personal blog and wants to write in plain-text Markdown, one should consider Jekyll on GitHub Pages[1]. The beauty is that one does not need to worry about setting up Jekyll on the local machine. Just write and push to Github. If one wants to skip that, just go to GitHub and write there; a version of VSCode is built in there. This also allows one to carry (take out) their content anywhe…

Its solid advice if that is your problem and if you are migrating from a standard wordpress. I ran into another problem - I wanted a static site[0]. I tried some of the static hosting engines, including Jekyll, but they always seemed to want to force my site into a blog format. Yeah with some work they could partially be twisted into what I wanted, but only partially. Do you know of a static website builder that buil…

Build your website like you would normally and then crawl it to build a static html site.

Years ago I used some npm library that was like a fancy `wget -r` for this purpose. I was generating a static site from an express server I made.

Re: WordPress Alternatives

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Post by marcosscriven »

Brajeshwar wrote: post #23

If one is looking for a simple/personal blog and wants to write in plain-text Markdown, one should consider Jekyll on GitHub Pages[1]. The beauty is that one does not need to worry about setting up Jekyll on the local machine. Just write and push to Github. If one wants to skip that, just go to GitHub and write there; a version of VSCode is built in there. This also allows one to carry (take out) their content anywhe…

What do you do about images?

Re: WordPress Alternatives

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Post by mikae1 »

marcosscriven wrote: post #34
Brajeshwar wrote: post #23

If one is looking for a simple/personal blog and wants to write in plain-text Markdown, one should consider Jekyll on GitHub Pages[1]. The beauty is that one does not need to worry about setting up Jekyll on the local machine. Just write and push to Github. If one wants to skip that, just go to GitHub and write there; a version of VSCode is built in there. This also allows one to carry (take out) their content anywhe…

What do you do about images?

My first thought too.

Re: WordPress Alternatives

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Post by mikae1 »

Brajeshwar wrote: post #23

If one is looking for a simple/personal blog and wants to write in plain-text Markdown, one should consider Jekyll on GitHub Pages[1]. The beauty is that one does not need to worry about setting up Jekyll on the local machine. Just write and push to Github. If one wants to skip that, just go to GitHub and write there; a version of VSCode is built in there. This also allows one to carry (take out) their content anywhe…

I wish more people came across https://getpublii.com as a middle ground between full-on SSG and a hosted CMS. It's so damn good at this point.

Re: WordPress Alternatives

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Post by mikae1 »

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?

> Are there any graphical SSGs that non-technical users could run locally to generate a site and upload it to their web host?

https://getpublii.com is amazing and it's strange it doesn't get more attention.

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