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Attempts Were Made
I feel like I’ve gone through another set of “try something new other than WordPress but came back to WordPress” yet again.
I discovered Hugo and I use it on my main website, which I call a “digital cafe” over at https://binarydigit.cafe.
After getting the hang of the static site generator, Hugo, I found an awesome them – Blowfish.page and absolutely love it. I want to still keep the concept of a “digital garden” on that site, so it serves more static informational pages. It’s the place where I want to call “home” and point folks to if they are looking for information about me or my interests. I want to build it up like a wiki and note taking site and keep it fun like all of my sites. I even added webmentions which was a feat on it’s own.Still Missing Something
After I was done, sitting down and writing up a post seemed a bit of a chore. I had to be on my Mac (since I set git up with my dev tools there), and I have to deliberately create my post, fine a a feature image, resize it or create it etc. I became a bit lazy and then wrote the post “Not a Blogger“. I thought maybe I just didn’t want to blog, but I admitted to opening up a Tumblr account again and having fun with hand curating and blogging short form. Trying out Other Platforms
I tried self hosting with flat files. I tried Ghost. I tried 11ty. I checked our various commenting systems. Nothing was as satisfying as a CMS with an “easy to type up and add photos admin interface”, that I can do on any computer I have and my phone or tablet. I was missing the ease of having a choice of a million plugins if I needed indie web integrations, ActivityPub, webmentions, and native comments. WordPress has them all, even if a site can be bloated if you aren’t careful.
So here I am, back on a clean install of WordPress, clean install of plugins, only the ones I need. It turns out there are a crap ton of them. But I’m very happy to be back for now. Until I discover the perfect SSG with CMS integration (and even willing to pay for it). Plus I have 2 more years of shared hosting so it’s the perfect time to use it.
Welcome to my personal blog of micro posts, and writing whatever the heck I like, and *not* using social media for it. My internet home is the cafe and this coffee site is for small sips of content.
You can follow this blog on the fediverse at @binarydigit@binarydigit.coffee ☕Thanks for reading!
https://binarydigit.coffee/hello-again-wordpress/
#smallWeb
I feel like I’ve gone through another set of “try something new other than WordPress but came back to WordPress” yet again.
I discovered Hugo and I use it on my main website, which I call a “digital cafe” over at https://binarydigit.cafe.
After getting the hang of the static site generator, Hugo, I found an awesome them – Blowfish.page and absolutely love it. I want to still keep the concept of a “digital garden” on that site, so it serves more static informational pages. It’s the place where I want to call “home” and point folks to if they are looking for information about me or my interests. I want to build it up like a wiki and note taking site and keep it fun like all of my sites. I even added webmentions which was a feat on it’s own.Still Missing Something
After I was done, sitting down and writing up a post seemed a bit of a chore. I had to be on my Mac (since I set git up with my dev tools there), and I have to deliberately create my post, fine a a feature image, resize it or create it etc. I became a bit lazy and then wrote the post “Not a Blogger“. I thought maybe I just didn’t want to blog, but I admitted to opening up a Tumblr account again and having fun with hand curating and blogging short form. Trying out Other Platforms
I tried self hosting with flat files. I tried Ghost. I tried 11ty. I checked our various commenting systems. Nothing was as satisfying as a CMS with an “easy to type up and add photos admin interface”, that I can do on any computer I have and my phone or tablet. I was missing the ease of having a choice of a million plugins if I needed indie web integrations, ActivityPub, webmentions, and native comments. WordPress has them all, even if a site can be bloated if you aren’t careful.
So here I am, back on a clean install of WordPress, clean install of plugins, only the ones I need. It turns out there are a crap ton of them. But I’m very happy to be back for now. Until I discover the perfect SSG with CMS integration (and even willing to pay for it). Plus I have 2 more years of shared hosting so it’s the perfect time to use it.
Welcome to my personal blog of micro posts, and writing whatever the heck I like, and *not* using social media for it. My internet home is the cafe and this coffee site is for small sips of content.
You can follow this blog on the fediverse at @binarydigit@binarydigit.coffee ☕Thanks for reading!
https://binarydigit.coffee/hello-again-wordpress/
#smallWeb