My blog’s overwrought theme: copingmechanism.com

@pimoore I love Blot, but I started wishing for a 1-stop shop for my blog: Easy photo posting/sizing, galleries, comments, analytics, webmentions, all basically built-in. WordPress makes all that easy. Too easy! :). Baty.blog is still on Blot, but is idle at the moment.

@jack I hear you. I like Wordpress for the ethos and philosophy but it has gotten too complicated as a true blogging platform. I restarted my old blot account and am liking it. Especially when I need to fiddle with a word or two and can fix it on Dropbox.

@leonp I much prefer the idea of static sites. Baty.net was run on Hugo for a long time. In real life, though, it's harder to live with. I started a new test blog with Hugo yesterday, though, just in case :)

@pimoore when I used Wordpress last it felt like a job to manage it

@pimoore @leonp Makes sense. Self-hosting has gotten easier with things like the 1-click stuff at Digital Ocean. I'm (barely) good enough at server admin so I muddle though. The security issues are real. I try to mitigate that by using as few plugins as possible and only choosing those I feel I can "trust". All of this would go away if I used a static site but 🤷‍

@hjertnes @pimoore As long as I don't veer too far off-script, I just have to click "Update" once a week or so. It's fine.

@leonp I spend most of my editing time in MarsEdit or Ulysses, so I get to avoid the editor, which is good :).

@jack yeah but you also need to keep the server updated

Plus Wordpress is a very common target because of how many that use it

@hjertnes You're right. I find it to be a fair trade.

@pimoore I love them all! That's my whole problem :)

@jack Have you thought of the original Independent Press theme? It has full webmention/indieweb support as opposed to IP2, meaning less to have to tinker with.

@pimoore if you want a $5 linode can do it

@alongtheray I was wondering about that but webmentions seem to work great using the Webmention plugin and IP2. Am I missing something?

@jack If it works great out of the box with the plugin then yer not missin' a thing. Good choice, IP/IP2 has always been on the top of my list as a style I like.

@pimoore wp.com is like 4$ for a simple site. I have one. Easy. Fast. I just hate the editor.

@jack I just made my own cms and that’s just as much work.

@hjertnes That's fun! But the only thing worse than having to update WordPress all the time is not getting any updates unless they're done by you! 😝

@jack self-hosting WordPress recently convinced me am not ever going to self-host any blogging platform myself. I am tired of maintaining my writing and the place where I write.

@jack On themes, I have a got a decent theme for myself and first thing I do with any platform is modify css to get it close what I have (I have had a similar look with Hugo, Blot, WordPress and now with Micro.blog). If a platform doesn't allow modifying css, it's not for me.

@pimoore That's what I use. Been a happy wordpress.com user for years.