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There are so many alternatives to Wordpress. And so many of them focus on being a blog and not a CMS. I think Wordpress is not bad at all to start a blog with,

by onli 6y ago

There are so many alternatives to Wordpress. And so many of them focus on being a blog and not a CMS. I think Wordpress is not bad at all to start a blog with, but if you want something simpler, have a look at some options. For example, I'm involved with Serendipity, which is around as old as Wordpress but not a CMS. And btw, writing your own blog engine is something every web developer should do (mine is called ursprung). What I agree with: Medium and Blogger are bad options, and static site generators really are too complicated for many potential bloggers.

boynamedsue 6y ago
Shameless plug for my thing which reimplements the Wordpress API over static websites to solve this very problem. https://perspect.com https://perspect.com
- onli 6y ago
  The "Get started!" button at the bottom does not work for me :) The idea sounds awesome, but I'm not sure that I get it. Static blog generated by a dynamic backend?
  - boynamedsue 6y ago
    Fixed that. Sorry! It was intended to lead to the signup page here: https://app.perspect.com/signup https://app.perspect.com/signup Since I reimplemented the Wordpress API, the WP iOS and Android apps, for example, think they're talking to a regular ol' Wordpress installation. But the resulting site is statically generated and delivered using Cloudfront.
rukshn 6y ago
Op here what I’m saying is for average user, they can’t worry about writing their own blog engine. They should be able to just blog
- onli 6y ago
  You are right of course. I was speaking of the average developer only there. Regular users should be well served with many of the results of that labour though. And even if it's https://www.youdontneedwp.com/ https://www.youdontneedwp.com/ ;) For just starting a blog a wordpress.com instance is also pretty great. And there are still great blogs at blogger, https://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/ https://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/ for example.

by onli 6y ago

boynamedsue 6y ago

Shameless plug for my thing which reimplements the Wordpress API over static websites to solve this very problem. https://perspect.com https://perspect.com

onli 6y ago
The "Get started!" button at the bottom does not work for me :) The idea sounds awesome, but I'm not sure that I get it. Static blog generated by a dynamic backend?
- boynamedsue 6y ago
  Fixed that. Sorry! It was intended to lead to the signup page here: https://app.perspect.com/signup https://app.perspect.com/signup Since I reimplemented the Wordpress API, the WP iOS and Android apps, for example, think they're talking to a regular ol' Wordpress installation. But the resulting site is statically generated and delivered using Cloudfront.

rukshn 6y ago

Op here what I’m saying is for average user, they can’t worry about writing their own blog engine. They should be able to just blog

onli 6y ago
You are right of course. I was speaking of the average developer only there. Regular users should be well served with many of the results of that labour though. And even if it's https://www.youdontneedwp.com/ https://www.youdontneedwp.com/ ;) For just starting a blog a wordpress.com instance is also pretty great. And there are still great blogs at blogger, https://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/ https://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/ for example.