Wanting to restart my Webcomic. Any alternative to Wordpress that I could use on my website?
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Is there not federated WordPress?
I'm hosting writefreely with picsur as the image host for my blog. They're pretty lightweight. Otherwise a static site generator like others suggested.
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I will look into that. Thanks. And WordPress doesn't let you tinker with the base code like they used to.
They do if you host it yourself. I've done a fair bit of WordPress development. You can add your own plugins that override base functionality, and if that isn't enough you can just modify the base code directly (but you'll have to reconcile it with updates if you want to update).
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Maybe write freely? It's federated and blog format
Thsnks I look imto it.
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I get it, but you can pretty much bend Wordpress to do anything you want, even without coding. I for one suck at coding and have found a Theme I use for building all my sites and customers as well.
I don’t know you whatsoever and you don’t know me, so take this with a huge grain of salt, but sounds to me you are looking for a reason not to bring back your webcomic.
No just don't want to use WordPress.
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I'm hosting writefreely with picsur as the image host for my blog. They're pretty lightweight. Otherwise a static site generator like others suggested.
Do you find that Writefreely federates well? I've tried hosting it a couple of times but my accounts weren't discoverable on many other Fediverse instances. I never got to the bottom of why. I really like it though and would love for it to work out.
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They do if you host it yourself. I've done a fair bit of WordPress development. You can add your own plugins that override base functionality, and if that isn't enough you can just modify the base code directly (but you'll have to reconcile it with updates if you want to update).
If you want to make changes without dealing with update hassles:
- Make a child theme to your current theme which inherits from it.
- Add a functions.php to your child theme, which only includes specific overrides for functionality you want to override.
- Presto change-o you are immune to stuff getting ruined with updates. (Aside from API changes and things but those are relatively rare in my experience, for the most part it all just works.)
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No just don't want to use WordPress.
Fair enough. Keep us posted on what you ended up using.
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Is there not federated WordPress?
WordPress can be federated https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/
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Is there not federated WordPress?
You need to follow it, but the thing is, you're probably just as well off posting a link from your own account. It comes up as a separate account for me. I don't think the federation there is really worth it
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Is there not federated WordPress?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Yes.
First, yes, WordPress can be federated with a plugin.
If you're looking for the easiest, most developed, option, it's usually WordPress.
Alternately, there are many ways to join anything that produces RSS to the Fediverse.
(And of course WordPress also supports RSS)
(And lots of other hosted options support RSS!)
Static site generators like Jekyl and 11ty are particularly well suited to building a website to share comics.
Both can also produce an RSS feed, with the correct plugin.
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Thanks and got be careful fucking google tried to take me to ai sloop. Found them both look good. Will try Hugo first, looks like I can do less coding with it. Might redo my another website with it as well.
Hugo really is great.
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Yes.
First, yes, WordPress can be federated with a plugin.
If you're looking for the easiest, most developed, option, it's usually WordPress.
Alternately, there are many ways to join anything that produces RSS to the Fediverse.
(And of course WordPress also supports RSS)
(And lots of other hosted options support RSS!)
Static site generators like Jekyl and 11ty are particularly well suited to building a website to share comics.
Both can also produce an RSS feed, with the correct plugin.
Yeah looking into them, never used RSS and not sure how it works? Can you explain it?
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Yeah looking into them, never used RSS and not sure how it works? Can you explain it?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]An RSS file is a plain text, computer readable file that you add to your website, containing a list of all recent posts that you want to promote.
Anytime I add a post to my blog, I update my RSS file. (Well, a piece of automation does, I could hand edit it, but I'm lla lazy programmer.) Then a service I registered with shares any new posts (posts with today's date) to services line Mastodon or Lemmy through bot accounts that I set up.
People can also subscribe directly to the RSS feed (file), using various news reading apps. (But I think following RSS through Mastodon and Lemmy bots is becoming more popular, lately?)
You can learn a lot more about the RSS through the RSS Specification, but you may not need to.
I find that WordPress and other blog solutions mostly just make good default assumptions whenever I have turned on the RSS feature or plugin.
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An RSS file is a plain text, computer readable file that you add to your website, containing a list of all recent posts that you want to promote.
Anytime I add a post to my blog, I update my RSS file. (Well, a piece of automation does, I could hand edit it, but I'm lla lazy programmer.) Then a service I registered with shares any new posts (posts with today's date) to services line Mastodon or Lemmy through bot accounts that I set up.
People can also subscribe directly to the RSS feed (file), using various news reading apps. (But I think following RSS through Mastodon and Lemmy bots is becoming more popular, lately?)
You can learn a lot more about the RSS through the RSS Specification, but you may not need to.
I find that WordPress and other blog solutions mostly just make good default assumptions whenever I have turned on the RSS feature or plugin.
Going have to give WordPress a try again been few years so I will see.
