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I used to have a WordPress-based blog. It was indeed a nightmare to keep up to date, unless a bit after version 2, where they included the option of automatic u

by rinze 10y ago

I used to have a WordPress-based blog. It was indeed a nightmare to keep up to date, unless a bit after version 2, where they included the option of automatic updates, and the whole thing was a bit more manageable. Not because it was too much of a problem before (download the compressed file, uncompress, move to the correct folder), but because sometimes an update came out and I didn't notice. Had malware installed once, was a nightmare to get rid of. For a variety of reasons, the blog crashed and when I started a new one, I chose Pelican[1]. Haven't looked back. [1] https://github.com/getpelican/pelican https://github.com/getpelican/pelican (linking to the github repository because the main site happens to be down https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/issues/2079 https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/issues/2079).

gravypod 10y ago
Another not-WordPress alternative is a software called NibbleBlog [0] which is nice because it's also written in PHP and will likely be easy for existing wordpress admins to deploy. No change in tooling. This also doesn't require a DB, it can run from flatfiles. [0] - http://www.nibbleblog.com/ http://www.nibbleblog.com/
- jedimastert 10y ago
  >This also doesn't require a DB, it can run from flatfiles. How difficult would it be to get WP to run off of sqlite? I'm not familiar with the code base to know.
  - gravypod 10y ago
    No idea but from the one time I've looked into the code base I'd say that if it takes any modification of the source: very dificult unless one of the code maintainers is interested. Honestly, go take a look it was very scary. That's why I switched away from WordPress. A friend and I got attacked by some bots that did some emailing through our sites. After that I switched off and he did some intense web-admin work to make sure "it was never going to happen again" (tm). NibbleBlog was drag and drop. My friend went to hell and back to fix these exploits. WordPress has more features but also more ins-and-outs to learn. The choice is up to you if it's worth it. Also from what I remember NibbleBlog stores JSON files and doesn't use SQLite in flat-file mode. Very handy.
  - rmccue 10y ago
    > How difficult would it be to get WP to run off of sqlite? Hard, but not impossible. WP has a pluggable database connection class that you can override, but it doesn't have a DBAL. You'd have to modify queries to remove MySQL-specific things. It is possible though: https://wordpress.org/plugins/sqlite-integration/ https://wordpress.org/plugins/sqlite-integration/

by rinze 10y ago

gravypod 10y ago

Another not-WordPress alternative is a software called NibbleBlog [0] which is nice because it's also written in PHP and will likely be easy for existing wordpress admins to deploy. No change in tooling. This also doesn't require a DB, it can run from flatfiles. [0] - http://www.nibbleblog.com/ http://www.nibbleblog.com/

jedimastert 10y ago
>This also doesn't require a DB, it can run from flatfiles. How difficult would it be to get WP to run off of sqlite? I'm not familiar with the code base to know.
- gravypod 10y ago
  No idea but from the one time I've looked into the code base I'd say that if it takes any modification of the source: very dificult unless one of the code maintainers is interested. Honestly, go take a look it was very scary. That's why I switched away from WordPress. A friend and I got attacked by some bots that did some emailing through our sites. After that I switched off and he did some intense web-admin work to make sure "it was never going to happen again" (tm). NibbleBlog was drag and drop. My friend went to hell and back to fix these exploits. WordPress has more features but also more ins-and-outs to learn. The choice is up to you if it's worth it. Also from what I remember NibbleBlog stores JSON files and doesn't use SQLite in flat-file mode. Very handy.
- rmccue 10y ago
  > How difficult would it be to get WP to run off of sqlite? Hard, but not impossible. WP has a pluggable database connection class that you can override, but it doesn't have a DBAL. You'd have to modify queries to remove MySQL-specific things. It is possible though: https://wordpress.org/plugins/sqlite-integration/ https://wordpress.org/plugins/sqlite-integration/