DavidDarnes

Hey there, author here.

Lots of good suggestions here, but a lot of them are for complex development stacks. My criteria was something that can be installed and ran without having to do much wiring up. That being said I do love me an SSG and content API, my own site is Eleventy hooked up to Ghost.

Also saw some suggestions like Drupal and Joomla, I may add these but from personal experience I've almost always been migrating away from them. There's a reason they're popular though.

Ps. Sorry if you got upset about the political spin, but it's not escapable. Tech is not exempt from politics.

You’d be right! GitHub Pages sites do fall under the remit of Jamstack, but not ticking every single box. GitHub Pages runs on Jekyll, one of the most long-standing static site generators in the ecosystem. If you’re wanting to check more of those boxes, such as feeding content in from an API, you’re welcome to spin up a Jekyll site right here with a few clicks: https://jamstack.new/jekyll

Great write up! Just noticed my theme popping up in the examples

Aren't comments a response to your blog content and not part of the content itself? Having the option to use a multitude of commenting services seems like lots of control surely?

If you look at the various options being suggested in the comments here you'll see many of them don't come with comments out of the box. Jekyll, Gatsby, Hugo, 11ty all require you to use a third party service or roll your own.

There's several comment integrations you can choose from https://ghost.org/integrations/community/

As much as I love Jekyll, I have to agree with your points. Jekyll isn't very accessible with it's specific front matter and file naming convention. However I don't think Jekyll will ever have a proper GUI.

You can have the best of both worlds though. You can use gulp.js to build Jekyll friendly files coming from Ghost using the Ghost Content API: https://david.darn.es/tutorial/2019/08/11/use-ghost-with-jek...