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?
Hm, if you’re willing to compromise on that janky text editor, there’s still Jekyll, Hugo and all the other static site generators. Most will have some easy WP site import.
Bear in mind, I don’t pretend to be a cool kid…
For a solution that’s entirely online (ie. you aren’t relying on a bunch of files on your local machine that you generate a site out of and upload), there are flat file websites like Grav, Bludit and Yellow. They are (usually PHP) sites that run without a traditional database.
There are also a couple of ActivityPub alternatives, but they seem to be floundering(?) Plume is currently not developed actively, and I just heard on here the other day that WriteFreely doesn’t federate properly for some users. Take the latter with a grain of salt, though.
Oh, and Ghost just added ActivityPub, so there’s one more to that list!
I’m gonna quote myself from another comment
In order from little to bigger:
- any ssg like Zola or Pelican
- mataroa.blog
- writefreely
- ghost
- gotosocial
- lemmy :)
Ghost is a good option, and it comes with fediverse support now (still in the testing phase).
Don’t know about the “cool kids”, but Joomla worked out nicely for me.
I think it’ll make a big difference if you need just the OOTB platform, or additional plugins.
Joomla is a CMS, I wouldn’t recommend it in this context.
WordPress is also a cms. Pretty much all blog platform software is a cms or it’s a static site generator.
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.
wordpress can be as markety as they want, it’s a CMS by the real definition of it.
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.
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.
I tend to use Hugo these days, which can be a bit janky as well, but there are nice themes for it.
If you want something really easy and Permacomputing compatible this looks pretty neat though: https://lichen.commoninternet.net/
Ghost looked pretty cool but I haven’t jumped in yet.
