I'm a marketer, and looking for a blog platform where we can host the blog ourselves - ie, I want to implement extreme customization. Anyone have any recommendations.
Wordpress is not capable enough.
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#2Github with Jekyll?
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#3What are you capable of? What skills do you have in house? If you need extreme customization, what can you do? With the right skills you could just write your own.
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#4Maybe the poster means wordpress.com is not capabale enough? To me, Wordpress is a self-hosted platform and overly capable as a blog. It's also pretty capable for any other CMS-based site.
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#5People seem to be pretty excited about https://ghost.org/ these days. It's open source and looks to have a pretty strong community.
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#6Roller?
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#7Maybe the poster means wordpress.com is not capabale enough? To me, Wordpress is a self-hosted platform and overly capable as a blog. It's also pretty capable for any other CMS-based site.
Wordpress is a fully capable blog, but we're trying to brand the way it looks, implement some discovery widgets that lead back to our actual site, and also add some features.
Basically, we want to be able to edit the HTML and potentially more, but Wordpress.com doesn't let you do this.
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#8People seem to be pretty excited about https://ghost.org/ these days. It's open source and looks to have a pretty strong community.
This looks awesome, thanks!
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#9What deficiencies does Wordpress have? How is it not capable enough? Knowing whether it won't perform well under the kind of load your audience generates leads to an entirely different answer than knowing that it is limited in some other way.
If Wordpress is lacking in extensibility, then my guess is you'd be better off with something like Django, which isn't a blog at all, but could easily be converted into one -- or you could start with an existing, minimalist Django blog package and extend it.
If Wordpress is simply lacking features you need though, that's a different conversation, as it's the most likely to get those feature in the future, and/or possibly the cheapest to have those extensions developed.
Re: ASk HN: I Need a Self-hosted blog platform
#10Maybe the poster means wordpress.com is not capabale enough? To me, Wordpress is a self-hosted platform and overly capable as a blog. It's also pretty capable for any other CMS-based site.
Wordpress is a fully capable blog, but we're trying to brand the way it looks, implement some discovery widgets that lead back to our actual site, and also add some features. Basically, we want to be able to edit the HTML and potentially more, but Wordpress.com doesn't let you do this.
WordPress.org does.