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Disclaimer: This article was originally called Creating a blog: alternatives to WordPress. It was pointed out to us that perhaps it wasn't entirely suitable, so we decided to rename it to Create a blog: alternatives to Blogger.
Lately we have created some articles that also speak to web developers like Learn to program by playing or Alternatives to Google reCAPTCHA. We know that some people follow us constantly so we wanted to make some slightly more technical articles, but always accessible to anyone and always with interesting curiosities. If you want create a blog, here are some alternatives to Blogger. Useful, curious and interesting.
As always, let's try not to get too technical. One of the main ways to start creating a blog is definitely the platform WordPress. By now purchasing a web space for a few euros a year we can have a space already pre-installed WordPress.
WordPress, for those who don't know it, is a project Open source 1 which allows anyone to create a site with almost no technical knowledge. WordPress It also owes its popularity to the myriads of plugins that anyone can develop.
In alternative to WordPressHowever, there are other interesting platforms such as Joomla (although perhaps more complex to use) or even Ghost, for more professional projects and certainly also Drupal.
Obviously this is also intended to be a list of alternatives to Blogger And Blogspot which we noticed is still widely used. Bloggers however it was acquired by Google in 2003 2, therefore we strongly advise against its use.
Create a blog: alternatives to Blogger
However, if your idea is not to create a real website but a simple blog where you can write your thoughts, there are several alternatives even simpler than WordPress to use.
Let's see them together.
NoBlogo
Open source
The first alternative we want to mention is called NoBlogo.org and is based on WriteFreely. WriteFreely it's a platform Open source 3 simple and lightweight that anyone can install on their server. NoBlogo is managed by Devol collective. Registration is open And free. Furthermore NoBlogo is interconnected with the social networks of the fediverse (Mastodon, PixelFed, PeerTube).
A blog the same for everyone, no personalized templates, no header images, no avatars, no thumbs up, no stars, no applause, no gamification.
Quote taken from NoBlogo.org
Another one Instance free to use WriteFreely And Wordsmith.social.
Bear
Another interesting project, it's called Bear ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ and this is also completely free and Open source 4. You can also add your own custom domain at no cost. If you don't have your own domain, you can use the subdomain bearblog.dev. The pages are without javascript, without css, without tracers. Only and exclusively text! There Road mapFurthermore, it is really interesting.
Write.as
Open source
Another minimalist project ed Open source, also based on WriteFreely. The basic version is totally free Due to spam, free registration is temporarily closed 5, if you want to start having instead custom themes, newsletter And photo Hosting then the cost is €6 per month 6. A little too much for a personal blog, but it can be an affordable cost for some companies or professionals. Their privacy policy it's really excellent and they even have an onion address for those who want to use Tor.
Neocities
Open source
This Neocities It was a really nice discovery for us! It was born with the idea of recovering what were the first internet blogs on a platform called GeoCities 7. The idea is to take back your own internet page and avoid the conformity that we have all suffered with Facebook and the like!
Neocities it is therefore a return to the origins where you can create your page with basic knowledge ofHTML. It's a project Open source 8 and lives thanks to donations and at premium pages (5$ per month).
Blot
Open source
This is another very interesting software that allows you to transform a folder on your computer into a website. In addition to syncing with a Repositories git to date it is only possible to synchronize folders present on Dropbox or Google Drive, over time it is hoped that supports will also be added for alternatives to these clouds such as kDrive.
The operation is therefore quite simple: create a text file and place it in the synchronized folder. After a few seconds your site will update! Here find a video of its operation.
The price of Blot it is 5$ per month per site but if you are able it is also free software and you can install it yourself on a server managed by you.
Telegraph
A platform created by Telegram where anyone can post anything completely anonymously. You don't have to have an account, all you have to do is write a title, an author he was born in text. You can too add videos And upload images. The posts created by the site are in no way linked to each other
If you use instead Telegram and launch the official bot Telegraph you will also be able to link the articles to your Telegram account and therefore you will be able to edit your articles and create a sort of personal blog. Be careful though, by doing this you will, for obvious reasons, give up anonymity.
Ultra-minimalist but also very interesting!
Rentry
Open source
Another alternative Open source 9 interesting very similar to Telegraph. Here too you can write whatever you want anonymously. Furthermore, you can customize the URL and also subsequently edit the text thanks to a secret code. Very interesting and really simple to use.
Talium
In our way of seeing a visionary project. Incredibly easy to use, Talium it will allow you to create a blog in just a few moments and with no technical or IT knowledge. Select a theme among the predefined ones and have fun writing anything. You can easily share it with friends. Unfortunately it's not a project Open source.
- WordPress source code[↩]
- Blogger on Wikipedia[↩]
- WriteFreely on GitHub[↩]
- Bear on GitHub[↩]
- Changing Free Registrations[↩]
- Write.as Pricing[↩]
- Making the Web Fun Again[↩]
- Neocities on GitHub[↩]
- Rentry on GitHub[↩]
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