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Self-hosted blog options. (lemmy.world)

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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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

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

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

wordpress can be as markety as they want, it's a CMS by the real definition of it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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It can be, but a large percentage of WP installs aren't even blogs that manage posts over time. They are basic 20-30 brochure-ware sites that use WP as a page builder.

WP is popular with .edu sites where they are managing thousands of structured content types; faculty profiles, academic programs, events, etc.

Drupal is also a popular solution for that type of project where managing a large amount of structured data is a key feature.

My experience has been that WP needs to "built up" to handle large site while Drupal needs to "burned down" to be a good fit for small, page building projects.

Though Drupal's new preconfigured Drupal CMS installer with "recipes" for different use cases is making it a better option for smaller site projects.

https://new.drupal.org/drupal-cms

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Regardless if individual projects use the whole feature set, it has the functionality and capability out the box. Saying it's not a CMS is a silly nitpick.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Honestly I think you're actually the one nitpicking, my point was whether or not the technologies had a blog focus. And that is what my data supported.

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