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I host a hobby website and use WordPress for everything. Even as an entry level user, I agree the amount of plugins are ridiculous. But it's free and I only pa

I host a hobby website and use WordPress for everything. Even as an entry level user, I agree the amount of plugins are ridiculous. But it's free and I only pay for hosting. Anyone knows what are the alternatives for someone like me?

doctor_eval 4y ago
Last time I looked, Hugo + GitHub + Netlify is free and fast, within fairly generous limits. Hugo is great… once you work out how it works.
marc_io 4y ago
Publii is an alternative to publish a simple blog for free without paying for hosting from your own computer. It's much, much more simple and limited than WordPress, but this is its strength for some people.
hrbf 4y ago
Recently, I’ve come to appreciate Kirby (https://getkirby.com/ https://getkirby.com/). It’s commercial but reasonably priced. Clean, powerful and relaxed with updates.
- manuelmoreale 4y ago
  As someone with probably 30+ sites built with Kirby I’d agree that it’s better than WP in many ways but it’s very developers oriented and it’s not really a replacement for WP for the average user. And when I say developers oriented I mean it in a good way.
  - hrbf 4y ago
    Entirely agree with that assessment. All my clients love the Kirby backend and as a developer it’s a pleasure to work with the system. Documentation for first-time users could be better though. The YAML page structure took some time to wrap my head around. Also, as it’s flat-file, backups are trivial – just copy the folder or commit everything to a VCS.
    - errnesto 4y ago
      I can second that. Customers really love the very simple and clean UI and I love the Developer experience :-) But yes it would not be a replacement for WordPress if you want to click together a site with themes and plugins
gwd 4y ago
I've been looking at replacing my project's website with Hugo (https://gohugo.io https://gohugo.io). Rather than generating a web page dynamically every time someone comes to your site, you generate the entire website statically whenever you change something. That means hosting can be entirely a "dumb" web server (or a "dumb" web server + apis which feed info to javascript, if you really need it). It also means: * you can keep everything in version control to roll things back * content can be fed to it programmatically * project members can send pull request to post content, rather than requiring a special account I've only gone through some examples from a book so far, but it looks pretty powerful, and is has good recommendations from others in the community. I don't (yet) have a personal web presence, but if I do, it will definitely be something like Hugo.
- Theizestooke 4y ago
  There's also a plugin for Wordpress (SimplyStatic, I believe) that creates a static copy of your site. I use it in conjuction with bitbucket and netlify, and it works quite well.
- sofixa 4y ago
  And the dumb web server can be Firebase Hosting, Netlify, Vercel, CloudFlare Pages, with extremely generous free tiers and practically zero maintenance.
nhumrich 4y ago
Web flow

doctor_eval 4y ago

Last time I looked, Hugo + GitHub + Netlify is free and fast, within fairly generous limits. Hugo is great… once you work out how it works.

marc_io 4y ago

Publii is an alternative to publish a simple blog for free without paying for hosting from your own computer. It's much, much more simple and limited than WordPress, but this is its strength for some people.

hrbf 4y ago

Recently, I’ve come to appreciate Kirby (https://getkirby.com/ https://getkirby.com/). It’s commercial but reasonably priced. Clean, powerful and relaxed with updates.

manuelmoreale 4y ago
As someone with probably 30+ sites built with Kirby I’d agree that it’s better than WP in many ways but it’s very developers oriented and it’s not really a replacement for WP for the average user. And when I say developers oriented I mean it in a good way.
- hrbf 4y ago
  Entirely agree with that assessment. All my clients love the Kirby backend and as a developer it’s a pleasure to work with the system. Documentation for first-time users could be better though. The YAML page structure took some time to wrap my head around. Also, as it’s flat-file, backups are trivial – just copy the folder or commit everything to a VCS.
  - errnesto 4y ago
    I can second that. Customers really love the very simple and clean UI and I love the Developer experience :-) But yes it would not be a replacement for WordPress if you want to click together a site with themes and plugins

gwd 4y ago

I've been looking at replacing my project's website with Hugo (https://gohugo.io https://gohugo.io). Rather than generating a web page dynamically every time someone comes to your site, you generate the entire website statically whenever you change something. That means hosting can be entirely a "dumb" web server (or a "dumb" web server + apis which feed info to javascript, if you really need it). It also means: * you can keep everything in version control to roll things back * content can be fed to it programmatically * project members can send pull request to post content, rather than requiring a special account I've only gone through some examples from a book so far, but it looks pretty powerful, and is has good recommendations from others in the community. I don't (yet) have a personal web presence, but if I do, it will definitely be something like Hugo.

Theizestooke 4y ago
There's also a plugin for Wordpress (SimplyStatic, I believe) that creates a static copy of your site. I use it in conjuction with bitbucket and netlify, and it works quite well.
sofixa 4y ago
And the dumb web server can be Firebase Hosting, Netlify, Vercel, CloudFlare Pages, with extremely generous free tiers and practically zero maintenance.

nhumrich 4y ago

Web flow