Ask HN: Bloggers, how do you manage your content?

5 pointsposted 15 hours ago
by freemanjiang

Item id: 46279773

7 Comments

mikewarot

21 minutes ago

I still use Blogger. I'm amazed it hasn't been killed yet.

krapp

14 minutes ago

I use Nikola, a static site generator written in Python (which I don't particularly like as a language but the app does what I want almost exactly the way I want it to.)

I write new posts in Sublime Text as Markdown (I also use my blog to archive Mastodon posts which go in a different folder than my blog posts) and then it does its thing and generates an HTML site which I git push to my server. I use a plugin to integrate comments from my Mastodon account.

It doesn't have a wysiwyg editor per se but it does have a local server with hot loading so I can see how it would look.

midzer

15 hours ago

I use a Static Site Generator (SSG) regularly.

You will have wysiwyg when you develop locally.

Here's an overview over some tools: http://staticgen.com/

freemanjiang

14 hours ago

I see, yeah I use Next.js pretty regularly, you mean on hot reload then?

You still need to write your content as Markdown or something else, right? I feel the editors of Substack give some nice features like shortcuts for bold, italics. What do you do about that?

wannabebarista

13 hours ago

I tried several on this list a few years ago and found Jekyll the most flexible/enjoyable for my use case. It's a bit dated though.

chistev

6 hours ago

I use a rich text editor.

ben_w

15 hours ago

I use HTML directly, with a small custom-made wrapper so all I write is the main content itself, not the head element or the visible footer. Some scripts to build the index page, the tags page, the categories page. Hosted on GitHub, but it would work just as well on my own domain. I made some stylesheets for fun, the default is deliberately minimalistic.

I've found I have so few readers I don't really need a comment section, so I've not even implemented one.