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.