Ask HN: Do you blog using wordpress?

1 pointsby sharmivor 9 Jahren1 comments

My personal site is not much active but when I have something interesting I tend to post.

https://www.minvolai.com/blog I used to blog using wordpress in 2007. Then I migrated to static generator mynt and have been on this from atleast 5 years. Mynt is not so well maintained now and I plan to move to nikola, another static blog generator (written in python).

On the other hand, most of the web uses wordpress. So if I move back to wordpress, I believe I will have a better understanding of other people's workflows and issues. I do not mind keeping the installation up-to-date etc.

One thing that used to bug me when I was using wordpress, was embedding code snippets as a part of blog content. Wordpress would often replace embedded code symbols with html encodings , like ">" by ">". It got really annoying to open every post where it happens and set it right manually.

So my questions are:

* Has anyone moved a programming blog from static blog generator to wordpress? How is the experience?

* Has anyone faced the code replacement situation recently and if so, how do you handle it?

1 comments

kernelcurryvor 9 Jahren

1. Wordpress has come light years in the past 2-3 years and allows for auto updating now

2. I moved my site https://kernelcurry.com from WordPress to a statistics site generator a few years ago and I LOVE IT!

If you are looking to have GitHub host and deal with scaling (for free) I say go for it! Jekyll, Hugo, etc... There are a thousand of them. If you just want to write posts and have people view them... Maybe even use a comment service (some of those are also free) then make the move...

But be warned it did take a few days me banging my head against a wall to understand all the nitty gritty BS that comes with these statistics Site Generators. -shrug- isn't that how it always goes?...