post-thumb

Why not WordPress?

At the beginning I need to confess you something. I have been present in the internet since 2016 year. I have blogs JerzyWickowski.pl and blog.DeployAcademy.pl .

Both of them are using Wordpress

… and I still have to tell that Wordpress is great, but there are some cons:

  • It is difficult customize, because there are mass of code around
  • It isn’t simple to recreate
    • To restore backup of old version
    • To create new instance, for test purposes for example
  • It requires updating plugins all the time
  • It requires internet connection to work on new posts
  • Working on Wordpress editor make me nervous.
    • Classic one is too lov level
    • Gutenberg is a bit too slow and not conformable is i want to copy or move anything

So I decides to find…

An alternative for Wordpress

I have multiple options:

  • I can write my on blog engine
    • But it will take me a lot of time
    • I don’t have soo much free time to write something like this
  • I can create a tool to write posts in Markdown and import them in to wordpress
    • But Wordpress is not only a collection of posts. There are plugins, settings, pages
    • So recreating it will be painful
  • I can use an different CMS, like WIX, Joomla etc
    • But there will be no difference
  • I can use a static page generator like Jekyll or Hugo
    • And it is my destiny, but…

What I need from blog tool

  • I want to write posts in Markdown
    • Because it easy
    • Because it doesn’t interrupt me
    • Because it is very easy to migrate
  • I want to have a possibility to simple recreate a whole page
    • To restore backup
    • To test new layout or feature on a different domain
    • To write some plugins if required in safe environment
  • I have to have a standard way to cooperate with community
    • When someone would like to write a post to my blog
    • When someone would like to improve one on my post
  • I want to automate as much as I can

The decision is…

To use Hugo . I will try to use it. I thought the start will be easier and faster. I will describe it later.

Update: I have been using Hugo for a while and I am very happy with it.

comments powered by Disqus

Are you still here? Subscribe for more content!