[rdo-dev] RDO blogs

[Jakub Ruzicka]

On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 6:47 PM, Rich Bowen <rbowen at redhat.com> wrote:

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> On 02/05/2018 06:32 AM, Jakub Ruzicka wrote:
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>> P.S.: Do I get it right we migrated from simple universal Markdown files
>> towards PHP powered WYSIWYG attrocity that is WordPress? What was the
>> motivation behind this downgrade?
>>
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> I certainly see that you don't have a high opinion of this move. I rather
> wish we had seen your feedback earlier in this process, as we've been
> discussing it for some time.
>

I also wish to have known as I'd certainly put in my feedback, but I missed
it :-/

On the one hand, you can, in fact, still author in simple universal
> markdown, so that, at least, has not become more difficult.
>

Oh? So I can still edit a local text file and preview/submit it using CLI?


> The move to Wordpress is all about the things that it makes easier - if
> not for the author, in your case, for the consumer of the content. The
> ability to automatically promote this content to other social media
> outlets. The ability to schedule posts to go out at a particular time. The
> large ecosystem of plugins for doing all manner of things around the blog
> post. The ability to have a blog post in a draft, and give a team of people
> the ability to review it and see what it's actually going to look like when
> it's published.
>

After reading this, I'd reccommend Ghost. I believe it offers all the
features mentioned (WP obviously wins on sheer number of plugins) while not
being a bloated PHP system and providing beautiful Markdown
editor/previewer. Late to the party, huh ;)

We also simply wanted to merge the two blog presences to remove confusion.
>

Yes, that's definitely a good idea.


> I hope that we haven't lost you as an author with this move.


I have shown the previous system to several people as a state of the art
merge of best of old and new technologies... I really liked it to a point
where it was pleasant to write blog posts.

It boils down to ability to treat the blog text as a text file (like
everything else) and being able to use my favourite set of text editing
tools on it.

I'll see if I can do that with the new setup and there might be some
plugins to help, however I had very bad experience when I tried to make
WordPress behave reasonably like that few years ago.


Cheers
Jakub
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