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Re:Ask HN: Which blogging software do you use, other than WP? by nemexy on Monday May 25, 2015 @12:00PM (#9600506)
I am not sure about Live JS, but I have used Anchor CMS / http://anchorcms.com / and I have been pretty happy with it, with a few exceptions. It is small and lightweight, can easily be self-hosted and has a nice selection of themes/ http://anchorthemes.com / and you can easily make your own design. It powers my own personal blog and visiting anchorshowcase.com will show you some more blogs powered by it.

The thing about it that I don't like that much are : 1. Really weak plugin ecosystem. If you want something specific, you will probably have to make it yourself, as the CMS doesn't even have a plugin support, you have to edit things in the code. 2. Written in PHP. I know Python, not PHP so making changes for me is especially hard so anything complex for me is a no no. 3. It has been in development for a bit and the development has slowed while they are trying to build the 1.0 version.

Re:Ask HN: Which blogging software do you use, other than WP? by sarciszewski on Monday May 25, 2015 @02:42PM (#9601153)
I wrote my own. They're actually pretty simple in concept, but can be time-consuming to get right.

I'm currently working on a CMS for PHP 7 that emphasizes security by default (expected to release in December).

Re:Ask HN: Which blogging software do you use, other than WP? by giaour on Monday May 25, 2015 @02:12PM (#9601036)
Hugo ( http://gohugo.io ) is pretty swell. It builds static sites a lot faster than Jekyll and has built-in support for disqus comments.
Re:Ask HN: Which blogging software do you use, other than WP? by yen223 on Monday May 25, 2015 @08:32PM (#9602341)
Ghost (https://ghost.org/). They have a self-hosted option, and it looks elegant out of the box.
Re:Ask HN: Which blogging software do you use, other than WP? by vijayr on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @09:58AM (#9604849)
Ghost only supports SQLite, correct? No official support for other databases?
Re:Ask HN: Which blogging software do you use, other than WP? by yen223 on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @11:41AM (#9605511)
I'm running mine on Postgresql. No issues so far, although it's not officially supported.

I think MySQL is officially supported though.

Re:Ask HN: Which blogging software do you use, other than WP? by vijayr on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @12:29PM (#9605812)
Oh ok, will check it out, thank you.
Re:Ask HN: Which blogging software do you use, other than WP? by aprdm on Monday May 25, 2015 @09:53PM (#9602566)
Re:Ask HN: Which blogging software do you use, other than WP? by Jeremy1026 on Monday May 25, 2015 @12:41PM (#9600678)
I use Concrete5. Its not really meant for blogs, but it doe have blog functionality as well. You can make some really beautiful sites with it with not a ton of effort.
Re:Ask HN: Which blogging software do you use, other than WP? by drakmail on Monday May 25, 2015 @12:23PM (#9600587)
Jekyll
Re:Ask HN: Which blogging software do you use, other than WP? by vijayr on Monday May 25, 2015 @12:51PM (#9600724)
Does it allow live JS, commenting?
Re:Ask HN: Which blogging software do you use, other than WP? by stevekemp on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @03:39AM (#9603385)
You can add comments to static sites via your own self-hosted disqus alternative.

e.g. Mine: https://github.com/skx/e-comments/

FWIW my blog comes from a static compiler, which has comments which are received via HTTP-posts and folded into the next time the blog is built, but there's no real live-JS.