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Building A Lightweight Blogging CMS In 10 Lines of Code

Hey fellow makers!

Ever since I launched One Word Domains five months ago, I've been wanting to set up a blog for the site, both for content marketing purposes as well as for me to document some of the cool things that I learn in the process of building the tool.

However, I had a problem choosing a suitable blogging CMS (content management system) for my needs – what I was looking for was a simple and free static-site solution that was easy to customize + integrates well with my existing stack (Heroku, Flask, PostgreSQL, Python, HTML/CSS, JavaScript), not a full-fledged CMS that's bloated with features that I will never use.

And this is when I came across this blog post by James Harding. 10 lines of code later, I've successfully set up my very own Markdown-powered static site for the One Word Domains Blog.

Therefore, I've decided to write about my experience so you can hopefully figure out how to set up a lightweight blogging CMS for your Flask web-app in lesser time! Here's the post:

https://www.oneword.domains/blog/lightweight-cms

Let me know if you have any questions about this! :)

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    This is great Steven thanks. I'm also plan to start a blog on Monday how're you finding getting views to your website?

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      Hi @invalidsyntax, can you take a look at my product Swish (link), and let me know if it'll work for your blog?

      Even if you don't intend to use it, I'd really appreciate your feedback.

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      Glad you liked it! I think if you can come up with quality content, a blog can be a great source of high-quality organic traffic to your website!

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