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by ValentineC 3250 days ago
> Tried that once, fell down a 3 day rabbit hole trying all the static blog generators.. ended up picking WordPress.

I'm still falling through the very same hole. What made you pick WordPress?
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corobo 3250 days ago
Honestly no real reason other than it's the one I know and didn't want to spend any more time on finding software to write with instead of spending the time on writing

Essentially it was the default option

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ValentineC 3249 days ago
Heh I can empathise. Two of my biggest reasons for wanting to move to a static site generator are actually to have actual control over the content (in markdown files, and because WordPress and its plugins do a fair bit of processing on the raw content), and because I'm more comfortable hacking in languages that aren't PHP.

That seems to have stopped me from writing though.

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corobo 3249 days ago
> more comfortable hacking in languages that aren't PHP

Oddly enough it was the opposite of that for me. Each of the static site generators I looked at were non-PHP (which is fine but I lack the experience)

I tell you what, if someone ever had a gun to my head and said "make this Ruby software work first time without errors" they might as well just pull the trigger

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