Mastodawn

Until I retired I ran my own website on Wordpress. When I retired I closed that but got involved with a local boat club and helped set up their site on WP. Left that a few years ago and someone else runs it now. Consequently although I've noticed some disagreements about WordPress on here I haven't really been paying attention. What's the situation? I'm thinking of creating a new blog, is WP still a decent option? What's the TL:DR version of events? #wordpress #blogging

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Tiggy Mar 7

@pthane

I had a wordpress free site for years. Then after I ignored suggestions I paid to upgrade it, I found wp advertising my site address for sale.
Some dodgy company took another author's site, kept her books up but added a load of stuff she wouldn't support to the front page.

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Phil Thane ✅Mar 7

@tiggy I think the techies here would call that sub-optimal. What I'm contemplating though is a bit different, using a cheap UK based hosting company that provides space on a virtual server, and a Cpanel dashboard sheet I can set up WP

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Ryan Sechrest

@pthane @tiggy I think a self-hosted WP site is still a decent option, especially if it's a platform you're already comfortable with. That said, I switched my personal blog from #WordPress to #Ghost a few years ago because I wanted a platform that prioritized publishing. For example, you can customize WordPress themes and sites to no end, making it easy to get distracted with choice overload, but Ghost themes are generally pretty straightforward, letting you focus on writing.