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minus-square Donut ( @Donut@leminal.space ) linkfedilinkEnglish5•14 hours agoAs someone who is running a simple WordPress portfolio / brochure style site, what are some alternatives?
minus-square sue_me_please ( @sue_me_please@awful.systems ) linkfedilinkEnglish2•4 hours agoDepends on what you’re doing with it. You could get away with a SSG for some use cases, but Wordpress with plugins can get pretty crazy and out of scope for simple SSGs.
minus-square jlow (he/him) ( @jlow@beehaw.org ) linkfedilinkEnglish3•6 hours agoIf it’s a sinple site https://gohugo.io/ might be an option.
minus-square David Gerard ( @dgerard@awful.systems ) linkfedilinkEnglish7•edit-213 hours agothere’s a ton of 'em the sticking point will be a plugin or theme you depend on third-party WP dev is extremely widely available, but not so much for other CMSes
minus-square bitofhope ( @bitofhope@awful.systems ) linkfedilinkEnglish3•13 hours agoSome kind of a community fork might happen, but I wouldn’t count on it.
minus-square David Gerard ( @dgerard@awful.systems ) linkfedilinkEnglish4•12 hours agothere’s https://www.classicpress.net/ but it doesn’t have a ton of end users
minus-square db0 ( @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) OPlinkfedilinkEnglish4•14 hours agoI saw someone suggest Publii today, but I’ve never used it
As someone who is running a simple WordPress portfolio / brochure style site, what are some alternatives?
Depends on what you’re doing with it. You could get away with a SSG for some use cases, but Wordpress with plugins can get pretty crazy and out of scope for simple SSGs.
If it’s a sinple site https://gohugo.io/ might be an option.
there’s a ton of 'em
the sticking point will be a plugin or theme you depend on
third-party WP dev is extremely widely available, but not so much for other CMSes
Some kind of a community fork might happen, but I wouldn’t count on it.
there’s https://www.classicpress.net/ but it doesn’t have a ton of end users
I saw someone suggest Publii today, but I’ve never used it