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I use writefeely on my blog, works great, I have a post coming uo on how to embed posts in to the blog but edit the width and or height.

Thanks for the clarity on this btw, i thought the software was WriteAs.

It also seems pretty lightweight, so just works on a wider range of systems.

Like 12 Jan 2023 at 9:11 | Wall-to-wall | Open on qoto.org

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Szilvia

@zleap @aral
Is there any point in using it rather than WordPress?

12 Jan 2023 at 11:47 | Open on zeroes.ca

Paul Sutton

@Szilvia @aral

For what I want / need, writefreely works fine, I can type a blog entry, add pictures, embed video, add tags and it has default activity pub integration.

Granted adding pictures does requre

![alt text](/path to picture/picture.png) which for me is fine.

There are also several options as to the type of blog.

As with everything else choose the right tool for the job and let the job dictate the tool.

I don't care about integration with old fashioned social media (e.g twitter, facebook, instagram etc). I do care about activcity pub integration, and software freedom so writefreely ticks the box for me. I also find it easy to use, it is nice and quick ( at times wordpress can be painfully sluggish)

Wordpress has a miriad of security issues, which is probably due to the fact it has lots of features, each plugin can introduce a new security problem and if your key plugin does't keep updated sync with wordpress, then you could lose that feature.

As I said, use the tool for the job.

@Szilvia @aral

For what I want / need, writefreely works fine, I can type a blog entry, add pictures, embed video, add tags and it has default activity pub integration.

Granted adding pictures does requre

![alt text](/path to picture/picture.png) which for me is fine.

There are also several options as to the type of blog.

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12 Jan 2023 at 12:01 | Open on qoto.org

Paranoid Factoid

@Szilvia @zleap @aral

The WordPress ActivityPub plug-in allows for following via the network. But you can't embed text objects (like a blog post) in a Mastodon post, which should be possible.

I don't know if WriteFreely allows for this.

WriteFreely is still a toy. WordPress has decades of production service. And it's FOSS.

Medium and Substack can go screw, however.

12 Jan 2023 at 13:56 | Open on mastodon.social

Szilvia

@ParanoidFactoid @zleap @aral
Meanwhile, it just occurred to me to have a look at what the Twenty Twenty Three WordPress theme is like. I got excited when I saw how plain and simple it looks, but they've totally changed how to customise it. So the old menus option under appearance is gone and I can't for the life of me figure out how to have my sub menus sitting under the main menus anymore. Typical... they finally have a nice default theme but they make everything else worse.

12 Jan 2023 at 14:24 | Open on zeroes.ca