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Looking through this thread, it seems Wordpress is overwhelmingly popular. But does anyone use static site generators (like Jekyll, Pelican, or Hugo) for blogging. I recently tried them all and tested hosting a Hugo site on Amazon S3, and it worked really well. You can do comments via Disqus and can do ads and all that. It is also really easy to just do all your posts in Markdown and it is dead simple to back up your site (just back up a directory). Just wondering if Wordpress still offers enough advantages that it is worth sticking with a dynamic site?
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Moniker posted:I host a personal non-money making blog on Jekyll and GitHub pages. I absolutely love Jekyll. Virtually unhackable, you can do pretty much anything with javascript, HTML, and CSS, and if you don't host on GitHub, there are tons of gems you can install to make Jekyll even more powerful Great to hear it works well for you. I tired to get Jekyll to work and it was a royal pain getting the ruby environment to work, which was a shame because I really wanted to try it. I finally gave up and tried both pelican and Hugo and both worked really well for me.
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Moniker posted:I assume you're on Windows? If so, Ruby is a pain to get working. Here's an article by Dave Rupert who switched to Windows as an experiment. He had a nightmare of a time and he's a high level guy. http://daverupert.com/2016/04/jekyll-on-windows-with-bash/ I actually tried it on Ubuntu 14.04 (knew better than to try on Windows), which has Ruby installed by default, but not version 2 which is what Jekyll 3 needs. Took forever just to get the right version of Ruby to cooperate with the installer, after which I could not get it to install all of the Jekyll dependencies I needed for even basic functionality. At this point, if I try it again, I will use a dedicated VM with the latest Ubuntu release and see if I get on better.
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