When Is It Time to Start Blogging?
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For those who do blog, what blogging platform do you like? I have used Blogger for personal blogs in the past. Some folks go the extra mile and purchase their own domain and design the site / use some kind of template.
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WordPress.
Ghost is really the only competitor.
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@scottalanmiller said:
WordPress.
Ghost is really the only competitor.
Nice - it looks like the free plan would work great. And you can even map it to a domain you own. I like it. Is that what you did with scottalanmiller.com?
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I use Wordpress the software, not WordPress the host.
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I specialize in WordPress development as part of my side business because it is a pretty good mix of usability and flexibility for most people's needs. The community is also extremely prolific in terms of themes, plugins, and tutorials... It's a safe bet that someone already had whatever issues you might end up having, and wrote about how they fixed it.
The only caveat is that, since it's so popular, there are a TON of automated attacks out there that will try to target your site. Luckily, 99.9% of the attacks are extremely low effort, to the point where installing a free security plugin will cause most of these bots to give up and move on to easier targets... or just get automatically permabanned. But you don't want your admin account to be named "admin" either way. I once had this plugin, which shows a live log of failed login attempts, on one of my sites and it was actually pretty fun to watch.
You don't want to have your blog at WordPress.com - go self-hosted if you want to use WordPress. WordPress.com runs a feature-locked version of WordPress that feels like playing a Free to Play videogame or something - I think you can "unlock" custom CSS for $30 or something ludicrous like that. That alone would be unfortunate but understandable... sadly, many popular and useful plugins simply won't work on WordPress.com either. I once had to work with it for a client and it was just infuriating.
Regarding Ghost, it's the up-and-comer that was released in late 2013 or so. I believe it runs on Node.js, whereas WordPress is built with PHP. It seems like it would be a good fit for those that only need a CMS-style interface for their blog pages, or for those where the blog itself is the most complex part of their site. I don't know too much about it, but I do know the people that use it seem to really like it!
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And a year later, we have our first blog post from him
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@scottalanmiller
Some people are procrastinators I guess.
https://mangolassi.it/topic/10175/site-to-site-vpn-between-cisco-asa-and-meraki-mx-the-kb-i-wish-meraki-had-written
