Best platform for adding blogging to my site?
We're trying to figure out which is the best blogging platform to use for our site (we don't mind it being technical, since all the founders are technical). We're looking for something cost-effective, easily adaptable, and beautiful.
Any help / suggestions? We know of Wordpress of course, but would love to hear of any other recommendations
I am running my personal site on Ghost and I find it really great!
https://ghost.org/
https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost
Third, just set it up for my personal site and it was super easy.
Gonna have to second that recommendation. Ghost is sublime.
If your team is familiar with PHP and or Laravel, I'd check out Statamic (statamic.com) - super sweet CMS and super developer focused. However, non-technical people can easily make posts from the control panel.
Have you tried October CMS before? I've looked at Statamic before, but haven't ever played with it. I love building with October as a Laravel fan, but it isn't meant to be non-technical/client friendly out-of-the box. It can be after training, but curious how that aligns with Statamic.
I had not even heard of October but will certainly take a look! I can tell from playing with Statamic it will suit my needs. But I’m always open to seeing new things
Here is my experience of how and why I moved from Jekyll to Wordpress.
I started with jekyll (https://app.requestly.in/content/) and it's still available but I faced a lot of issues which forced me to consider other options and wordpress (www.requestly.in/blog) was an easy choice.
Lack of Good themes. It is not easy to upgrade themes in jekyll if you have done customizations and I am pretty sure at some point if you have decent scale, you would have to customize.
Lack of Visual Editor. There is no WYSWYG editor so essentially you have to write in markdown which is not easy especially when you include images, code blocks and media elements. Imagine when you want to resize an image, in wordpress its really easy. In jekyll you will have to write custom css.
Lack of plugins. For commenting we did use discourse but for wordpress it came out of the box.
Lack of marketing tools
Since you are starting out, I'd recommend go with wordpress or something similar where you don't need to worry anything except your article content.
I love Hugo (written in Go). Very flexible and fastest of any static blog generator out there. Nifty themes too.
Recently setup ghost on my digital ocean droplet using docker. Setup was quick and it works great:
https://docs.docker.com/samples/library/ghost/
https://www.gonevis.com
Already hosted and good stuff on the way to come out.
Wordpress, it has a huge support base, many plugins, many themes, all kinds of marketing tools, can host it anywhere, it can support limited usage or lots of traffic..... so much work has gone into creating plugins that convert!
I just setup my blog with Gatsby, hosted on Netlify.com (blog.tealpod.com). Gatsby is built with ReactJS and easy to modify (if needed).
Previously I've used Wordpress and Jekyll, but I'm currently trying out GatsbyJS (https://www.gatsbyjs.org/) since the rest of my stuff is ReactJS as well. Hoping to spit out a static blog and host it on AWS S3 for pennies.
I think you will like GatsbyJS since you are all technical: markdown + react is kinda a powerful combination, as for me - https://www.gatsbyjs.org/ :)
Personally I use medium for contentiskey.co blog, it's very good and easy to use
Didn't Medium stop supporting custom domains?
unfortunately, they did - https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/115003053487-Custom-Domains-service-deprecation :(
BLARHG!!! There goes my Medium hosted blog =_=. That totally sucks.
Jekyll – https://jekyllrb.com/ – is really awesome, especially if you're more technical – you can host it for free on GitHub Pages and plenty of scope to adapt!
I run a directory of beautiful themes over at https://jekyllthemes.io/ that you should check out if you're interested 👀
You can try out Joomla, Drupal. Also you can publish your blog on communities like Medium and Dzone.
My company lambdatest.com got very good response from Medium and Dzone.