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by tutfbhuf 812 days ago
> I'll still use it because it's entrenched, and because it takes less time than coding a Jekyll site with equivalent functionality.

I wouldn't count on that. It required a 90-minute video for you to get going with Wordpress. I would say, if you know some basic stuff (e.g., know how to install gem, how to write markdown/html), you can set up Jekyll in under 90 minutes:

gem install jekyll bundler; jekyll new myblog; cd myblog; bundle exec jekyll serve

Now, you have a server up and running. You can start creating a post by creating a markdown file in the _posts folder.

For me personally, it would be faster to learn any easy-to-use static site generator than Wordpress.

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Only if you already know how to, well, do programming and writing commands to terminal.

For a lot of people clicking pretty buttons is easier to understand.

it's 30 seconds to do that in wordpress. I think what GP meant by setup is advanced setup