What are you using for a blog?
I've been looking for a solution to have a very simple and straight forward blog mainly for SEO and content to help existing users. I saw some sites were using Medium, but I couldn't find a way to host it under my own domain. I also felt like using Medium may hurt my SEO in the long run. I 'm currently using Wordpress, but I don't like how bloated it is. Wanted to check in with the community to see if there was another option I may have overlooked.
Hey Gareth! What do you consider as bloated from Wordpress? Currently I'm using Jekyll and it's pretty straightforward to me. There's built-in SEO support, write on markdown, and the theme ecosystem is pretty good.
Hope that helps! 🙏🏻
It always seemed a little overkill for what I planned on doing with it. Thanks for the recommendation, i'll look into Jekyll.
I agree, wordpress is a bit much for a simple blog.
I opted for Poole (https://bitbucket.org/obensonne/poole), which is admittedly a little uncommon, but let's you create a small website with a few pages (which is pretty much all I need for a side project). There is a handy/unexpected little blog function too, which isn't very robust but does the job for a blog.
I'm sharing this because it's one of the few solutions out there that let's you make a small product site with a blog as a subsection, which is probably the sort of structure many side projects on IH would use.