I have some downtime at the moment so I’m thinking of reviving my personal blog again. I have enough experience with managed services that I’m reasonably confident to self-host. I’m aware that WordPress / Drupal / Joomla will most likely do what I want, but they’re way overkill for my needs and I don’t need the extra headaches.
Currently I’m leaning towards ghost, even though activitypub is only in alpha as far as I know. Plume isn’t actively maintained any more, which is a shame. WriteFreely is a great project but doesn’t suit my aesthetics and doesn’t support themes as far as I know. I know connecting a flat-file CMS to activitypub is possible, but seems like way more trouble than I’d like to go to.
Is there anything I’ve missed that I should be looking at?
TBF, there is theme support in writefreely, though mostly limited to some colour changes within the very text based aesthetic.
Ideally IMHO, somebody would take the consequence of recent Wordpress drama and just use the code base for a very light install — perhaps with the activitypub plugin baked in, to make it fediverse native.
Huh. How did I miss that? Some of those actually look alright. Thanks!
I did look at ClassicPress too. But apparently despite broad compatibility with WordPress plugins, activitypub specifically breaks it.
ClassicPress is a start, I guess. My thought is more of slashing off all the extraneous bloat that has been added to WP over the last 15 years (but keeping the security updates) and make it a lean little blogging software again. But if course I don’t have the skills to do that myself.