WordPress VS eleventy 🕚⚡️

However, I tried to use this same login information to log into wordpress.org, to which they are saying my username does not exist. Why is this the case?

Thank you! So I've hard another option is to install wordpress locally on my computer and set it all up instead of using the one-click install function - I'm guessing this would also not use wordpress.org, and I would still set up specific user accounts for my website?

Self-hosted WordPress (wordpress.org) has pretty much no limitations, but you would have to be willing to learn something and devote some time. For me, it is interesting and not difficult, but not everyone must share such interests.

You need to buy a hosting plan somewhere else to use wordpress.org. Most of the hosting companies have 1-click WordPress installers nowadays. I assume you already have it?

and the prick that ran the wordpress.org forums BITCHED UP A STORM. I think that the exact wording was that I offered to help the guy, and the first 90 minutes were free.

any pro plugin should be supported via the developer and not wordpress.org forums. It's always being like that.

WordPress is a popular content management system (CMS) that powers over 40% of all websites on the internet. It is an open-source platform, which means that anyone can use it and modify it.

Then start with https://wordpress.org docs and tutorials.

You essentially need to delete all your files (except /wp-content/uploads and your DB) and install everything fresh from the source e.g. download wordpress from wordpress.org, and download your theme and plugins from their sources. Do not use backups or nulled software.

I wouldn't necessarily say that. People who don't have a background in building and managing web sites are not going to start off with all the technical knowledge they would need to manage a WordPress website themselves. So: if you already know enough about Linux system administration to set up a web server, then by all means do it your self with software from wordpress.org. Otherwise, the wordpress.com service is a reasonable option for beginners.

I like 11tu and GitHub pages. https://www.11ty.dev/

The only time I have any need for a project like this in recent years is for hobby projects, but I've been quite fond of the static site generator approach, especially using Eleventy ( https://www.11ty.dev/ ), hosted any-old-where, though Netlify certainly makes it very easy.

If your barrier of entry is setting something up, I'd definitely go with wordpress as it makes it quite seamless when writing new posts.

As for me I use 11ty [1] for my blog [2]. I quite like 11ty as I just write markdown files and it gets converted to static content. I'm also testing the grounds on using it for an online magazine, basically want to do some css garden tricks for different types of content. Seems to work quite well for this as I want as little JS being sent as possible.

[1] https://www.11ty.dev/

[2] https://azemetre.com/

I use 11ty (a static site generator) to generate it. The template source is nunjucks and the blog content is markdown. Everything is stored in a public GitHub repo and built and deployed on Netlify on push to `main`.

It is great that you are asking this. Repeating code like that is absolutely horrible and you are right to seek a solution. Static site generators like Hugo or 11ty are pretty common solutions for this. If you are willing to get into frontend frameworks that client-side routing is arguably an even better solution to this but will involve a lot of new concepts to I'd go with a static site generator for now

Eleventy is a wiely JavaScript-based static site generator that has a very active user base and lots of integrations and plugins to support things like server-side rendering or even edge rendering. It released version 2.0 back in February.

In terms of how to make a site like this... it is a simple site built with the static site generator Eleventy which can be used to take in something like Markdown files and turn them into HTML pages. But in order to style them and build them you'll want to understand HTML and CSS as well as how to use the generator features and hosting. There are other generators like Jekyll which can be hosted on something like Github Pages.

As part of my commitment to writing about things I've written in other frameworks in Eleventy, this is how I re-engineered my /now page in Eleventy.1

There are plenty of other improvements that may benefit you also. You can read the release notes for the full details.