Blogging software recommendations?

[TR Kellers, Sr]

I’ve used serendipity (from ports) since 2006.  I think it does everything you require and I mention it as an alternative to WordPress, which I agree is very good, well supported and is deployed all over the internet.

Tim K

> On May 11, 2019, at 3:12 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg at tristatelogic.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> I hope this question isn't too far off-topic.
> 
> I'd just like to ask if anyone would like to recommend to me any of the
> various specific blogging packages that are available as either ports
> or packages for FreeBSD.   I've never used any of them myself, but
> I have a very deep desire to begin doing so.  I just don't have any
> idea what the specific pros and cons of any of them are, and thus
> would apperciate some advice and opinions.
> 
> I don't have a lot in the way of specific requirements.  I'm assuming
> that pretty much all of them will have an HTTP interface which supports
> a WYSIWYG kind of editing, including the ability to select text fonts,
> styles (e.g. bold, italics), colors, and embedded links to both local
> and remote additional content, such as image files, video files, etc.
> I will definitely need all of that.
> 
> Also, having tried, briefly, to use Google's free blogging platform in
> the past, I already know that I'd like to have more and easier control
> over page layout, in particular the size and placement of images along
> with the text.
> 
> The only other feature I really need is the ability to allow some select
> set of people, e.g. proofreaders, to preview individual blog posts prior
> to them going "live", but my guess is that my knowledge of ordinary UNIX
> and Apache adnministration should allow me to accomplish this with any
> of the available blogging packages, and to do so in a manner that is
> entirely independent of the packages themselves.  Still, it would be
> helpful if I could find a blogging software package that already has
> support for password-controlled previews of individual not-yet-live blog
> posts pre-integrated, right out of the box.
> 
> Thanks, and I look forward to any & all replies.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> rfg
> 
> 
> P.S.  Actually, I would be more than happy to use one of the pre-existing
> online blogging platforms, sucgh as the Google one, but again, I need
> something that wll allow me to give just some specific people a "preview"
> view of individual blog posts before they go live, and I never managed to
> figure out how to do that with the Google blogging stuff.
> 
> Also, of course, I worry about things like security and the ability to
> easily make backups.  For years I've heard security horror stories
> involving Wordpress, so that one is probably going to be last on my list
> for consideration, behind all of the others.
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