Personal blog, which platform? / Blog perso, quelle plate-forme?

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[Eng]
I have a personal blog hosted using WordPress. It is good but I think there is a better option. What are you using and why?

Thanks

[Fr]
J’ai un blog perso sous wordpress. C’est bon mais je pense qu’il y a de meilleures options. Qu’est ce que vous utilisez et pourquoi ?
Merci

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Bonne question, je souhaiterai aussi quelquechose de simple et de statique si possible. Si quelqu’un s’y connait, merci d’avance.

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I’m using WriteFreely.

  • low system requirements
  • clean, simple design
  • no images, so don’t have to worry about storage and stuff, broken image links
  • simple markup
  • federation with activitypub (i.e. mastodon…)
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I do nothave a blog, but Iknow there are a few static tools which are really nice.
To work,you can have a tool on your computer, or on the server (not in the weé directory) that will read your writtings and build a static site that you can put (automatically) in a web directory in YunoHost.

I found this list with a huge list : https://staticsitegenerators.net/
And I’ve heard a lot of hugo : https://gohugo.io/

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ooooh Hugo seems interesting!

Is anybody running Hugo on their Yunohost server?

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Hi,
There’s pluXml which is really nice
https://yunohost.org/fr/app_pluxml

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Bonjour,

Personnellement je me sert de PHPBOOST sur mes 2 sites.
(Il est dispo sur yunohost)

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Hugo is incredibly fast, doesn’t seem easy to use for beginners, needs some learning, but it’s worth it (saw some sites running hugo that are graphically great)

I’ll give it a try. It has a nice design.

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true. i just spent like 30 minutes reading up on it and trying it out. i already got a test site up with a pre-made theme i like. so it’s not very, very hard, but is a different way of thinking of ‘content’ or ‘blog’.

i now need to learn how to import my writefreely content.

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I am running Hugo on my computer then upload the files on my Yunohost and I am very happy with it, although I am not a very active blogger. if you have any questions do not hesitate to ask.

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I use my phone to write. I have a little free time, so I take some free minutes to write some articles. I don’t think Hugo works on android.
And I add some pictures to the article, I don’t know to what extent it is possible to manipulate the pictures, alignment, title etc

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https://yunohost.org/en/app_dotclear2

Dotclear (Dotclear 2 in the Yunohost documentation) might be worth a try. I experimented with it briefly, but went back to WordPress because I didn’t have time to play with it. Looks pretty full-featured.

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There is no Android app, but as it works in command line, and Android use a Linux kernel, I am pretty sure you can use it with something line Termux : Termux | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

The other way is to have a git repo somewhere and push your posts to it, then have your server automatically read this and build the site itself, or many other ways, many documented here : Hosting and deployment | Hugo

(but again, I never used it, so I have no idea about anything really)

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Yes! : Writing a blog on smartphone | DSkrzypiec Blog

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Bludit is very nice and easy to use !

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Sorry for the late reply, I have had a crazy week (and I don’t think it will be better next days).
I see a lot of good alternatives, hugo seems to be the highest rated in terms of performance, I’ll try it when I get some free time. That’s a good idea for a blog post

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I got hugo running on my phone and it was very easy

1- Install termux app

2- Update packages
pkg upgrade

3- Install hugo package
pkg install hugo

4- First site
hugo new site <sitename>

5- Go to the site folder
cd <sitename>

6- Install a theme

git init
git submodule add <hugo-git-theme-link> themes/<theme-name>

7- Add the theme to config file
echo theme = \"theme-name\" >> config.toml

8- Launch hugo server
hugo server

9- Open in your browser
http://localhost:1313/

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Now you can install and use rsync to push the Hugo static files on Yunohost.

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Yup! I do this.

  1. Create your website with hugo. Test is with hugo server. YOU DID THAT.
  2. Install Custom Web app on Yunohost
  3. Use Rsync from your phone to upload the /public/ directory of your hugo site into the /www/ folder of my_webapp. Should be something like “/var/www/APP/www”
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