A case for something, anything more simple than WordPress
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Re: A case for something, anything more simple than WordPress
#12I'm using Wordpress for a project because of the wealth of existing templates and plugins. Without these Wordpress is not terribly interesting; it's not Wordpress. Once you drop the ecosystem there are plenty of alternative to creating static or near-static sites. edit: I should point out that more alternatives for creating Web content is, on average, a Good Thing. Presenting a tool, however good, as an alternative t…
It's also very easy to extend. It may not be the prettiest code base, but I very rarely hit a blocker where I can't do what I have set out to do.
Even if you're not the one actually extending it, the fact that it's easy to extend means there is a wealth of plugin offerings.
Re: A case for something, anything more simple than WordPress
#13If you're into simple, hosted services, you might give http://www.postagon.com a try.
Re: A case for something, anything more simple than WordPress
#14I'm using Wordpress for a project because of the wealth of existing templates and plugins. Without these Wordpress is not terribly interesting; it's not Wordpress. Once you drop the ecosystem there are plenty of alternative to creating static or near-static sites. edit: I should point out that more alternatives for creating Web content is, on average, a Good Thing. Presenting a tool, however good, as an alternative t…
It's also very easy to extend. It may not be the prettiest code base, but I very rarely hit a blocker where I can't do what I have set out to do. Even if you're not the one actually extending it, the fact that it's easy to extend means there is a wealth of plugin offerings.
It's also very easy to extend.
True. I hadn't done any PHP coding in many years, and knew essentially nothing about how WP worked, but Google + tenacity = useful results. Shortcodes, for example; super cool.
There are plenty of WTF moments in PHP and Wordpress but nothing that prevents pragmatic results.
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#15Another one: statamic.com. Flat file, live routing and caching, with a responsive cp.
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#16I couldn't agree more. In fact, this is why I started building a project for my girlfriend so she could create her own site. And now it's grown into something powerful that I really enjoy using too.
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#17The problem with this post, and other "WordPressis too complex" posts like it, is that WordPress did not intially start off this way. Wordprrss was originially a simple blog. Once Barley gets enough users, people will want it to do more and more things until it becomes yet another blog turned CMS platform. As for me, I use Jekyll and disqus because I'm just one guy.
jinushaun: We agree. Sort of our company mantra is "we have a passion for saying no" which means, to us at least, that we think we have the ability to say no to new features that do not fit who we think our target is. Time will tell if we're able to do it.
That being said, all software and services as they age begin to suffer from scope creep and feature bloat. Then it will be time again for something new.
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#18You should try out Silvrback (https://dsowers.silvrback.com/introducing-silvrback). It's a hosted, markdown powered blog as clean as medium.
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#19About a year ago I moved my blog completely off of Wordpress and onto Piecrust[0]. I realized I didn't need all the dynamic tools available in Wordpress, because blog, and Piecrust has so far worked beautifully. Comments were replaced with Disqus. No more opening my site to any possible security holes, no more having to keep on top of plugin updates, no more crying tears of shame when I snuck a peek at said plugins'…
I'm in the process of doing the same for my personal site with Jekyll.[0] It's so much more convenient to be able to structure and style my website the way I want without having to mess with Wordpress's PHP-based themes. And I find writing in Markdown with optional custom HTML snippets to be much more powerful than trying to wrestle the Wordpress browser-based editor into doing what I want.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's also very easy to extend. It may not be the prettiest code base, but I very rarely hit a blocker where I can't do what I have set out to do. Even if you're not the one actually extending it, the fact that it's easy to extend means there is a wealth of plugin offerings.
It's also very easy to extend. True. I hadn't done any PHP coding in many years, and knew essentially nothing about how WP worked, but Google + tenacity = useful results. Shortcodes, for example; super cool. There are plenty of WTF moments in PHP and Wordpress but nothing that prevents pragmatic results.
Worth mentioning though, that level of easy extensibility, combined with Wordpress' absurd popularity, makes it very easy to get into trouble. It's the Internet Explorer of the blogging world.
Consider: http://wpmu.org/why-you-should-never-search-for-free-wordpre...