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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (5 children)

As someone who is running a simple WordPress portfolio / brochure style site, what are some alternatives?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Hugo

It doesn't make sense for a site that gets new content 3-4 times a year to get generated from scratch to each single visitor

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Easy but intrusive option: disqus, most Hugo themes already support it and it doesn't require a server

Hard but Foss: isso, it requires a vps as it's in python, and literally zero Hugo themes support it so you have to edit their source to include it (not extremely hard, you just override the disqus part)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

yeah, i should specify self-hosted - if I wanted third party I could just use any old shit at all levels

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

If it's a sinple site https://gohugo.io/ might be an option.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Some kind of a community fork might happen, but I wouldn't count on it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

there's https://www.classicpress.net/ but it doesn't have a ton of end users

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

I saw someone suggest Publii today, but I've never used it