[kwlug-disc] Blogging software for Linux

[Paul Nijjar]

On the topic of minimalist Markdown markup and Wordpress, I used a
variation of the following script recently: 

https://github.com/parezcoydigo/markdown2wp.com

I did not use the image upload functionality. But for basic text-only
updates the basic idea seems to work well. One hiccup I ran into had
to do with newlines. Wordpress was taking my Markdown text and
inserting extra blank paragraphs at the end of my regular paragraphs. 

- Paul 


On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 06:17:23PM -0500, Paul Nijjar wrote:
> 
> I think blogging is still alive but most people update via the web
> interface. The other approach is to go minimalist via a static website
> using Markdown markup. 
> 
> 
> On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 10:58:35PM +0000, Jeff Smith wrote:
> > Thanks for this.  I looked and now I'm really worried!  Seems none of these clients listed under Linux are being maintained anymore.  In fact, some are nearly ten years dead now.
> > 
> > 
> > Gnome-blog seems to have some potential as it is at least listed in the Ubuntu software centre..  I'll give that one a try.
> > 
> > 
> > But I can't help but wonder if I'm asking the wrong question here...  So how about this one:  is blogging itself dead?  And by blogging, I mean uploading snippets of information (e.g. "Coming Events", or "here's what happened at event XYZ") to a private website.  Am I taking the old-fashioned approach to these websites that I maintain?  I know WordPress is a security nightmare but it still seems very popular from what I see.  (I know that also sounds suspiciously like Facebook...)
> >