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What features are the main considerations?

sneak 5y ago
Doing everything in a web browser without editing local files, mostly. "Open a text editor" or "git commit" are enough to put off people who don't think of themselves as computer people even though complexity wise they are no different than WP, simply because you gotta leave the browser.
- lolinder 5y ago
  Netlify CMS is pretty easy to set up and has all of the basic features that you need for a simple blog. And again, I would never recommend a static site generator to someone who doesn't think of themselves as a computer person. The context in which this conversation started was someone who was seriously considering hosting their own WordPress instance. I dearly hope that they think of themselves as a computer person.
  - temp8964 5y ago
    I am a programmer, but I don't have patience to read through SSG documentation to setup a basic website.
temp8964 5y ago
Like setup categories and tags, themes, url structure, etc. without needing to read the documentation?
- lolinder 5y ago
  I'd count all of those in the "easy for developers" category, as long as you're willing to read documentation. It's 1-2 lines of config for any one of those, and the config in question is at the very front of the doc pages. If you're unwilling to read documentation, then yes, you're probably better off sticking to Squarespace or WordPress.com
magicalhippo 5y ago
It's been a wee bit since I last looked, but for me I want these "out of the box": - Good support for posting source code from various languages, both inline and in blocks, with syntax highlighting. - Zero-effort image posting ala WordPress, ie with automatic down-sizing of the inline image if needed (in these days ideally multi-resolution). I imagined these were quite basic needs, but I've been disappointed each time I've gone looking. Been a year since last time though.
- lolinder 5y ago
  Hugo, at least, has built-in syntax highlighting (both block and inline) and at a glance it looks like Jekyll does, too. Netlify CMS has zero-effort image posting (saves to your repo's static folder). I'll grant that it doesn't do automatic downsizing, though Netlify as a CDN does.

Doing everything in a web browser without editing local files, mostly. "Open a text editor" or "git commit" are enough to put off people who don't think of themselves as computer people even though complexity wise they are no different than WP, simply because you gotta leave the browser.

lolinder 5y ago
Netlify CMS is pretty easy to set up and has all of the basic features that you need for a simple blog. And again, I would never recommend a static site generator to someone who doesn't think of themselves as a computer person. The context in which this conversation started was someone who was seriously considering hosting their own WordPress instance. I dearly hope that they think of themselves as a computer person.
- temp8964 5y ago
  I am a programmer, but I don't have patience to read through SSG documentation to setup a basic website.

temp8964 5y ago

Like setup categories and tags, themes, url structure, etc. without needing to read the documentation?

lolinder 5y ago
I'd count all of those in the "easy for developers" category, as long as you're willing to read documentation. It's 1-2 lines of config for any one of those, and the config in question is at the very front of the doc pages. If you're unwilling to read documentation, then yes, you're probably better off sticking to Squarespace or WordPress.com

magicalhippo 5y ago

It's been a wee bit since I last looked, but for me I want these "out of the box": - Good support for posting source code from various languages, both inline and in blocks, with syntax highlighting. - Zero-effort image posting ala WordPress, ie with automatic down-sizing of the inline image if needed (in these days ideally multi-resolution). I imagined these were quite basic needs, but I've been disappointed each time I've gone looking. Been a year since last time though.

lolinder 5y ago
Hugo, at least, has built-in syntax highlighting (both block and inline) and at a glance it looks like Jekyll does, too. Netlify CMS has zero-effort image posting (saves to your repo's static folder). I'll grant that it doesn't do automatic downsizing, though Netlify as a CDN does.