Date: Sat, 11 May 2019 18:08:21 -0400 From: "TR Kellers, Sr" <trkellers@gmail.com> To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Blogging software recommendations? Message-ID: <63B59098-6190-4B64-ACF8-58F1123915E3@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <16781.1557601968@segfault.tristatelogic.com> References: <16781.1557601968@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
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I=E2=80=99ve used serendipity (from ports) since 2006. I think it does ever= ything you require and I mention it as an alternative to WordPress, which I a= gree is very good, well supported and is deployed all over the internet. Tim K > On May 11, 2019, at 3:12 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg@tristatelogic.com> w= rote: >=20 >=20 > I hope this question isn't too far off-topic. >=20 > I'd just like to ask if anyone would like to recommend to me any of the > various specific blogging packages that are available as either ports > or packages for FreeBSD. I've never used any of them myself, but > I have a very deep desire to begin doing so. I just don't have any > idea what the specific pros and cons of any of them are, and thus > would apperciate some advice and opinions. >=20 > I don't have a lot in the way of specific requirements. I'm assuming > that pretty much all of them will have an HTTP interface which supports > a WYSIWYG kind of editing, including the ability to select text fonts, > styles (e.g. bold, italics), colors, and embedded links to both local > and remote additional content, such as image files, video files, etc. > I will definitely need all of that. >=20 > Also, having tried, briefly, to use Google's free blogging platform in > the past, I already know that I'd like to have more and easier control > over page layout, in particular the size and placement of images along > with the text. >=20 > The only other feature I really need is the ability to allow some select > set of people, e.g. proofreaders, to preview individual blog posts prior > to them going "live", but my guess is that my knowledge of ordinary UNIX > and Apache adnministration should allow me to accomplish this with any > of the available blogging packages, and to do so in a manner that is > entirely independent of the packages themselves. Still, it would be > helpful if I could find a blogging software package that already has > support for password-controlled previews of individual not-yet-live blog > posts pre-integrated, right out of the box. >=20 > Thanks, and I look forward to any & all replies. >=20 >=20 > Regards, > rfg >=20 >=20 > P.S. Actually, I would be more than happy to use one of the pre-existing > online blogging platforms, sucgh as the Google one, but again, I need > something that wll allow me to give just some specific people a "preview" > view of individual blog posts before they go live, and I never managed to > figure out how to do that with the Google blogging stuff. >=20 > Also, of course, I worry about things like security and the ability to > easily make backups. For years I've heard security horror stories > involving Wordpress, so that one is probably going to be last on my list > for consideration, behind all of the others. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.or= g"
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