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Self-hosted blog options. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by sylver_dragon@lemmy.world to c/selfhosting@slrpnk.net

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With layoffs starting at WordPress, and me recognizing that I'm a bit of a dinosaur in this regard, I'm wondering what folks are using for self-hosting their own blog these days? While I'm not exactly prolific, I do like having my own little home on the internet to write up things I find interesting and pretending people actually read it. And, of course, I really don't want to be reliant on someone else's computers; so, the ability to self-host is a must.

Honestly, my requirements are pretty basic. I just want something to write and host articles and not have to fight with some janky text editor. And pre-built themes would be very nice. It would be nice if there was an easy way to transition stuff I have in WP; but, I can probably get that with some creative copy/paste work.

So, what are all the cool kids blogging on these days?

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[–] jonathan@lemmy.zip -1 points 1 month ago (10 children)

Joomla is a CMS, I wouldn't recommend it in this context.

[–] jackalope@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago (9 children)

WordPress is also a cms. Pretty much all blog platform software is a cms or it's a static site generator.

[–] jonathan@lemmy.zip -2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (8 children)

Wordpress.org homepage uses the word "blog" (along with "publishing platform"), it does not use the term CMS. Joomla.org uses CMS and has zero mentions of "blog".

Wordpress.com is even more stark, mentioning the word "blog" 33 times. Joomla.com again, zero mentions of it.

My vote would be for Ghost anyway.

[–] jackalope@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

The wiki article for WordPress describes it as a cms https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPress

What even are you trying to argue here exactly? Is this a matter of structured versus unstructured data? Because you can use WordPress with structured data, using acf. Also I'm pretty sure joomla is unstructured data. Drupal is structured but joomla last I checked uses a rich text editor.

[–] jonathan@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

I don't actually care about Wordpress, my point was Joomla is a bad recommendation in this context (a WordPress refugee looking for different blog software). Joomla (and Drupal) is a bad recommendation when there are better and more focused tools available.

[–] kreynen@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@jackalope@lemmy.ml

@sylver_dragon@lemmy.world @JASN_DE@feddit.org @jonathan@lemmy.zip

The amount of design elements (HTML beyond text markdown like divs) and pseudocode (elements that only render when parsed before delivering to the browser) that end up in the content is something to consider. Enabling a text editor alone does not tell you much. You can support easier bold, italic and ~~strike though~~ with a structured data approach.

It's when you get into creating layouts in the editor that really differentiants a page builder from a content management solution.

[–] jackalope@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

These aren't mutually exclusive terms.

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