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Totally agree on the seemingly unnecessary overhead. Just recently I was looking into platforms for starting a blog and was overwhelmed with the choices of whic
by josters 4y ago
Totally agree on the seemingly unnecessary overhead. Just recently I was looking into platforms for starting a blog and was overwhelmed with the choices of which none really had a complete set of offerings. Having a feature comparison table or a guide for choosing the best service/platform for individual use cases would be nice.
In the end, I chose Ghost's lowest tier. While it is limited regarding the theme choices, I've found that you can customize the free standard themes via their code injection feature[1].
[1]: https://www.shmostert.com/customize-standard-ghost-themes/ https://www.shmostert.com/customize-standard-ghost-themes/ (disclaimer: the guide is from my blog)
- input_sh 4y agoGhost is also what I always recommend. With WordPress and Jekyll/Hugo, you'll fuck around with site setup way more than actually writing. Ghost is basically only good for actually writing. Pick a theme (plenty of them for ~$50, write. That's it. Customizing themes is also super simple in my opinion, though I've never tried their shared hosting and am unfamiliar with limitations that come from that.
- ymolodtsov 4y agoI think the problem with customizing Ghost themes is that you actually have to tinker with their code, most don't really have settings at the scale WordPress themes used to have. But yeah, that's why I said that if you're OK with the workflow Ghost provides and at least one theme you should probably use it.