alt Hacker NewsI agree, but I think wordpress is overkill in 95% of cases.
Why? Because it takes too much maintenance (keep it up to date ornbecome part of a botnet) for features you probably don't need. A static site generator is totally fine for most blogs and if it needs maintenance it is at a time of your own choice.
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pclmulqdq • yesterday at 5:33 PM
I ran into the maintenance load of an SSG for my blog, and only just now switched themes over this rather than fixing the old theme (which had several customizations). In that theme swap, I think I lost all the productivity I gained from using the SSG over raw HTML.
I disagree, it's not overkill unless you make it overkill.
My update process is:
- Click a button to back up
- Click a button to update everything
- Open my blog to make sure it still looks normal
Definitely not onerous. To be fair I don't use many plugins, and my theme is very simple. I don't think a plain old blog doesn't need many plugins.
Sometimes I take a break from blogging. I don't want to have to read documentation on how my SSG works (either my own docs or docs on some website) to remember the script to generate the updates, or worry about deploying changes, or fiddling with updates that break my scripts, or anything like that. I do stuff like this for my day job.
I like my blogging experience to be focused on a single thing: writing.