Is there not federated WordPress?

  • RagingHungryPanda@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    You need to follow it, but the thing is, you’re probably just as well off posting a link from your own account. It comes up as a separate account for me. I don’t think the federation there is really worth it

  • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    Yes.

    First, yes, WordPress can be federated with a plugin.

    If you’re looking for the easiest, most developed, option, it’s usually WordPress.

    Alternately, there are many ways to join anything that produces RSS to the Fediverse.

    (And of course WordPress also supports RSS)

    (And lots of other hosted options support RSS!)

    Static site generators like Jekyl and 11ty are particularly well suited to building a website to share comics.

    Both can also produce an RSS feed, with the correct plugin.

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        An RSS file is a plain text, computer readable file that you add to your website, containing a list of all recent posts that you want to promote.

        Anytime I add a post to my blog, I update my RSS file. (Well, a piece of automation does, I could hand edit it, but I’m lla lazy programmer.) Then a service I registered with shares any new posts (posts with today’s date) to services line Mastodon or Lemmy through bot accounts that I set up.

        People can also subscribe directly to the RSS feed (file), using various news reading apps. (But I think following RSS through Mastodon and Lemmy bots is becoming more popular, lately?)

        You can learn a lot more about the RSS through the RSS Specification, but you may not need to.

        I find that WordPress and other blog solutions mostly just make good default assumptions whenever I have turned on the RSS feature or plugin.

  • RagingHungryPanda@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    I’m hosting writefreely with picsur as the image host for my blog. They’re pretty lightweight. Otherwise a static site generator like others suggested.

    • Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee
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      Do you find that Writefreely federates well? I’ve tried hosting it a couple of times but my accounts weren’t discoverable on many other Fediverse instances. I never got to the bottom of why. I really like it though and would love for it to work out.

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            Using a SSG such as Hugo, you don’t write HYML. You use Markdown. Which is the same format that you use for posts on Lemmy. You don’t get the full MS Word of the formatting gamut but in exchange your posts look the same anywhere you put them that uses Markdown.

            In fact there is someone that made a front end that literally uses Lemmy as the backend for your posts.

          • scott@lemmy.org
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            3 days ago

            Yeesh. That’s terrible. Morespecifically look at Hugo and Ghost

            Edit: I don’t mean you’re terrible, I mean the search results are.

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              Thanks and got be careful fucking google tried to take me to ai sloop. Found them both look good. Will try Hugo first, looks like I can do less coding with it. Might redo my another website with it as well.

  • 0x01@lemmy.ml
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    Wordpress as a framework is kinda federated, you can host your own server if you want to.

    You can look into wysiwyg website editors, self hosting a website with aws and s3 is wicked cheap, and other providers like netlify are also inexpensive to a lesser degree.

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      3 days ago

      I will look into that. Thanks. And WordPress doesn’t let you tinker with the base code like they used to.

      • kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        2 days ago

        They do if you host it yourself. I’ve done a fair bit of WordPress development. You can add your own plugins that override base functionality, and if that isn’t enough you can just modify the base code directly (but you’ll have to reconcile it with updates if you want to update).

        • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
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          If you want to make changes without dealing with update hassles:

          • Make a child theme to your current theme which inherits from it.
          • Add a functions.php to your child theme, which only includes specific overrides for functionality you want to override.
          • Presto change-o you are immune to stuff getting ruined with updates. (Aside from API changes and things but those are relatively rare in my experience, for the most part it all just works.)
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          Yeah but then it wouldn’t be on my website. And no thanks to WordPress they enshitfication and don’t allow you to change the code. So fuck them. Also they destroy Comicpress best thing they had for webcomics.

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            I get it, but you can pretty much bend Wordpress to do anything you want, even without coding. I for one suck at coding and have found a Theme I use for building all my sites and customers as well.

            I don’t know you whatsoever and you don’t know me, so take this with a huge grain of salt, but sounds to me you are looking for a reason not to bring back your webcomic.