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For developers, there are many alternatives, but for the vast majority of use cases, there really aren’t any. WordPress is popular because it’s a dead simple way to make a website that doesn’t require any technical skills - and has been this dead simple solution for almost the last two decades. Most of the popular hosts come with WP installed, so there is no need to install software on a server (a fairly “technical”…
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…
Not a great idea to recommend something based on hearsay. There's good & bad things to hear about any CMS.
One inexplicable decision by the Kirby team was to push their politics by "taking a stand" against Twitter, suddenly cutting off their account. This leaves you wondering if Kirby is abandoned software since their top post is from Jan 2023 announcing version 3. https://x.com/getkirby
If you don't like Musk, why on Earth would you rattle the cages of your potential customers with such views? It's possible to use Twitter/x in the most minimal way, disable replies, post every blue moon. At least keep the latest version visible. Twitter is essentially an online feed of you business activities. From a potential customer point of view, Twitter is agnostic to "where is your software at" research. Ending your timeline in a principled huff, isn't smart.
Meanwhile, in the article:
> "Statamic.... I think if the cofounder hadn't brazenly endorsed a horrendously damaging politician, I'd have tried it."
All aboard the facepalm express. Is it too much to ask to keep politics out of software recommendations and social media version announcement updates?
> " I have not used Kirby in client work, but I hear only good things. " Not a great idea to recommend something based on hearsay. There's good & bad things to hear about any CMS. One inexplicable decision by the Kirby team was to push their politics by "taking a stand" against Twitter, suddenly cutting off their account. This leaves you wondering if Kirby is abandoned software since their top post is from Jan 2023 a…
I mean, the project has an official website and a public repo on GitHub. I’m not sure why we’re expecting Twitter to be an official update channel. It clearly isn’t anymore.
Out of these, what do you guys recommend?
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
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?
I know some people use S3 services for hosting images, but then you have to worry about generating your own thumbnails etc. and it's trickier.
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 no…