pluxml is a good alternative : https://pluxml.org/
WordPress Alternatives
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Re: WordPress Alternatives
#112If 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…
Why is GitHub better than WordPress?
Re: WordPress Alternatives
#113If 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…
Why is GitHub better than WordPress?
Static sites are ~impossible to hack, whereas a WordPress site needs to be kept constantly up to date or else. And as we've learned recently, you're only one Matt tantrum away from having the flow of security updates interrupted.
You could use another host because GitHub if you'd like, but GitHub Pages is unambiguously better than WordPress unless you actually need a CMS.
Re: WordPress Alternatives
#114If 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…
A blog without integrated commenting is not a proper blog, IMHO. And sure, you can add 3rd party commenting to a static page, but from what I've seen none of them are as good (or as free).
Technically, that’s still just a website with comments. A proper blog also has RSS and Atom feeds and supports Trackbacks and Pingbacks.
Re: WordPress Alternatives
#115If 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.
I wanted to update my thoughts on Publii. I downloaded it again yesterday and I think I'm going to use this for some of my other websites. This is looking much better and pretty interesting now than I saw it a while back. They even have a good revenue model working for them; I saw the marketplace.
Re: WordPress Alternatives
#116> " 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…
> This leaves you wondering if Kirby is abandoned software since their top post is from Jan 2023 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.
I mean, someone casually reading about CMS options or related topics on Twitter might see an old mention of Kirby. They click, see no new posts and move on.
Obviously someone with intent to specifically look up Kirby, will go beyond their social media scrolling. I'm talking about the multi-tasking rapid-browsing people who give a seconds of attention to a possible lead. Why risk losing those leads because you "don't agree with XYZ"?
Re: WordPress Alternatives
#117> " 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…
> Is it too much to ask to keep politics out of software recommendations and social media version announcement updates? Frankly, yes. Things have become so bad that the more people taking a stand and showing they don't support a party that has no issue with racism, sexism, misogyny and various other kinds of bigotry, the better. Sitting on the sidelines shouldn't be an option for most ethical people based in the US,…
Your reply is exactly the reason to keep politics out of software recommendations. Dialled in hyperbole, frantically listing your grievances about XYZ, isn't the moral high-ground you think it is.
Re: WordPress Alternatives
#118> " 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…
> This leaves you wondering if Kirby is abandoned software since their top post is from Jan 2023 announcing version 3 Most people do not judge if software is abandoned based on Twitter, as most people do not have Twitter.
What does it mean to "have Twitter"? Browsing the website?
I have never "had Twitter". Only ever browsed it. I did stumble upon the Kirby abandoned profile, and the first thing I thought was "another CMS abandoned"... You see, a lot of CMS applications have been abandoned, as you may know. I'd recommend if your CMS is still going strong, and you're selling licences and making updates, to make sure nowhere on the internet gives the opposite impression. Particularly when it costs nothing to keep those details updated.
Re: WordPress Alternatives
#119For 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”…
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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.
I took a new look at Publii. Recently more support for websites instead of blogs. Great! But collaboration seems to be a problem. You can sync the workspace using dropbox or syncthing, but there can be conflicts on the sqlite database. There is git support, but that just pushes the published page into git. Are there no better interfaces for mortals to SSGs?
Lack of collaboration and proper git support are a big hold back for me. Otherwise, it is not bad.