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Where to now with baty.blog?

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I go through periods during which all I want to do is type some words, add a photo or two, and press “Publish”. WordPress works well for that.

But it’s still WordPress, you know? The “Site Editor” continues to improve, but to me still feels like a janky mess. Gutenberg is fancy, but it’s also slow and can get in the way when trying to be “helpful”.

And the plugins. So many plugins available, and all of them want me to “Upgrade to Premium” and nag me about it constantly. I hate it so much that it makes me want to stop using WordPress.

But then what? Ghost? Eleventy? Kirby? Moveable Type? I don’t want to keep messing with baty.net, so I use baty.blog to test new blogging options. Maybe I’ll try one of the new-ish simple tools like Pika.page or Bear.

I’ll try to keep the disruption to a minimum, but don ‘t be surprised it things get wonky here soon.

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3 responses to “Where to now with baty.blog?”

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    Tony

    @jack The two essential plugins I've installed Day 1 on every WordPress site I've run or worked on are the Classic Editor and "Disable Admin Notices Individually" (https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-admin-notices/). I also hate the nags from plugins, and this makes life a lot more pleasant:

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      Jack Baty

      Good to know. I’d not heard of the admin notices one. That seems useful, thanks!

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      1. Tony Avatar
        Tony

        @jack It's brilliant. I also really recommend https://gpldl.com/ for finding a lot of "premium" plugins and tools.

        The WordPress ecosystem seems to really have split into two camps: the Shopify-esque "pay to play" and visual/block editor model and the OG FOSS camp who are still making it work in the old-fashioned way, and I intend to stick with the OG camp for as long as is feasibly possible!

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