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WordPress

Wordpress is giving me headache.

Ever since I started my own server I used Wordpress. It is not a bad

platform, in fact it is very nice. With modern lightweight theme it can be a

breeze to use.

But it is heavy. It is a lot of code in a language I do not really like

(php). And it does a lot of things that I do not need. For what I use it is

becoming to heavy and to ... difficult.

How I use WordPress

I write an article every so often. Nothing special, it's just a blog. I do

not get much comments if any. I do not write for comments, it's more about

my external memory. Do I even need comments?

I like photos. I like to ad photos to my articles. They fit nicely into

"external memory" concept.

Built in editor is slow. All the code in the WordPress is making it slow. My

server is not a high end machine so it does not really fly with it. And

articles are saved in a database ...

What would I like?

A lightweight system. On disk files instead of database for storage, maybe

markdown formating.

And this is where Gemini fits in nicely.

Will I switch?

Not sure yet. Let's see how things work out. I have a Gemini server

up-and-running and will keep creating the content. Maybe I will even migrate

my old articles here.

For now no. WordPress with all its problems, remains.

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