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I'm working on a blogging platform which of course allows you to add your custom domain(s). Another feature we have is being able to add any URL you like to yo

by pier25 6y ago

I'm working on a blogging platform which of course allows you to add your custom domain(s). Another feature we have is being able to add any URL you like to your posts or even redirects to the "main URL". So for example if you migrate from WP and some post had this URL: domain.com/posts/123 You could use that as your main URL, or use it with a redirect to a new URL such as: domain.com/hello-world We're also working on a feature to be able to download all your content in a .zip file with HTML files, markdown files, and images. Are there other features you'd like to have to feel "in control"?

Abhinav2000 6y ago
Stylesheets or having many themes would be nice. I find a lot of blogging / hosting platforms work well out of the box but are a pain to customise. In the end I just did my own github pages, with good ol fashioned html and css that I manually coded
- pier25 6y ago
  We will have themes with settings. We would like to support custom themes but certainly not at launch. It would probably make more sense to work as a headless CMS so you can plug it into your SSG of choice and have total control.
theandrewbailey 6y ago
> We're also working on a feature to be able to download all your content in a .zip file with HTML files, markdown files, and images. Can you go to another instance of the platform, upload your zip backup, and restore everything? I've had that feature on my blog for years[0], and backup/restore feature has come in handy so many times, from setting up a dev environment to outright saving my bacon. [0] https://github.com/theandrewbailey/toilet https://github.com/theandrewbailey/toilet Example backup: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HUkiovCL-lRZa7DTc1JVPhDGxxuLQpWm/view https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HUkiovCL-lRZa7DTc1JVPhDGxxu...
- pier25 6y ago
  We're not WP or Ghost, so there is really no other instance of the platform. You could copy paste the files on the zip and use them with any SSG though. We would also like to have a WP plugin so you can import the zip into a WP install, although there's so much to do right now that this is not really a priority.

by pier25 6y ago

Abhinav2000 6y ago

Stylesheets or having many themes would be nice. I find a lot of blogging / hosting platforms work well out of the box but are a pain to customise. In the end I just did my own github pages, with good ol fashioned html and css that I manually coded

pier25 6y ago
We will have themes with settings. We would like to support custom themes but certainly not at launch. It would probably make more sense to work as a headless CMS so you can plug it into your SSG of choice and have total control.

theandrewbailey 6y ago

> We're also working on a feature to be able to download all your content in a .zip file with HTML files, markdown files, and images. Can you go to another instance of the platform, upload your zip backup, and restore everything? I've had that feature on my blog for years[0], and backup/restore feature has come in handy so many times, from setting up a dev environment to outright saving my bacon. [0] https://github.com/theandrewbailey/toilet https://github.com/theandrewbailey/toilet Example backup: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HUkiovCL-lRZa7DTc1JVPhDGxxuLQpWm/view https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HUkiovCL-lRZa7DTc1JVPhDGxxu...

pier25 6y ago
We're not WP or Ghost, so there is really no other instance of the platform. You could copy paste the files on the zip and use them with any SSG though. We would also like to have a WP plugin so you can import the zip into a WP install, although there's so much to do right now that this is not really a priority.