I’ve gone through a bunch of different ways of publishing my blog, from Wordpress to static site generators and ultimately Medium. They all had their issues, but a recent thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15507538) brought this back to mind<p>My question is, what do you use for your personal/company blo, why, and would you recommend it?
I have 2 blogs, both on WordPress. My web development blog is on a DO droplet and uses the Roots stack, Trellis, Bedrock and Sage. <a href="https://roots.io" rel="nofollow">https://roots.io</a><p>I've done a lot of WordPress development, custom themes mostly. I can't always use Bedrock and Trellis due to hosting constraints, but I would never choose anything other than Sage for a theme development project.<p>The Roots projects have always been ahead of the curve as far as WordPress development goes. Whether it's things as simple as name spacing, or actually taking advantage of PHP 7 features, to using Composer to manage dependencies, gulp to automate build processes, Ansible for automated provisioning and deployment....<p>I could go on and on, but I'm loyal to these tools because they've consistently pushed me to learn new things. I also enjoy the workflow.<p>My personal blog is hosted by Automattic, on WordPress.com, strictly out of convenience.<p>I'm looking around at other options however. I've thinking it might be time for me to move on from WordPress. Partly from the Roots stuff constantly driving my curiosity, and partly from being unhappy with the direction the WordPress project as a whole is taking.<p>I've been looking specifically at Ghost, Craft, various flat file solutions, and have even been considering taking a crack at building my own blog with Python. (Python because I've been learning it and have really been enjoying it)
We had been using Ghost to host our company blog (via Digital Ocean) it has been super super easy not to mention the cost is dirt cheap on DO. I would recommend it for a few reasons. 1) Easy to use editor to write the blog posts (W/drag and drop image insertion) 2) You can find a perfect template and easily upload it to the blog, and tweak as needed. 3) They have AMP templates.