Blog on Custom Website - WordPress Alternatives

[DmitriiK]

Howdy folks.

I'm trying to find any good alternative for adding CMS blog to custom website. Most people, us included, are using WP, but, as we know, it's really painful to work with, easily hackable etc etc.

So, I wonder if anyone knows of a blog platform, which can be installed on our own websites for blogging, but without drawbacks of WordPress. Any nudge in correct direction will be appreciated. Thanks!

[DmitriiK]

Thanks for the response.

Medium will not work for us, since we need to have a blog ON our website, on the same domain, in a folder. That's why WP usually works. Medium would take all the SEO goodness from our domain

Ghost and Jekyllrb - haven't used of these guys, but aren't they third party hosted as well?

[Roman-Delcarmen]

Depends of what you want, wordpress is easy to hack because is very popular and everyone with a basic level of knowledge of php and wp can try to hack a website. There is many other cms that have the same level of security but are not as vulnerable as wp because has been developed in other language such as ruby or python.

For me the first option is Medium
Medium is a popular publishing platform. It is different than WordPress in many ways. It is not a full content management system. Their focus is on blogging and the community aspect. It aims to connect people with stories and ideas that matter to them.

Medium is designed to provide a clutter free writing area for publishers and a similar reading experience for the readers. It looks beautiful on all devices and screen sizes. Users don’t have to worry about themes or plugins because there are none.

Instead of comments, Medium has in-line notes and responses. You don’t need to worry about the software as Medium is a completely hosted platform. Medium is expected to allow custom domains for publishers, so you can use your own domain names on Medium.

https://medium.com/

Another options are

https://ghost.org
Some WordPress users who want to focus on blogging felt that WordPress is going in a totally different direction. This gave birth to Ghost, which is a NodeJS based blogging software. The difference is that Ghost is entirely focused on blogging and keeping the clutter away. It provides a clean writing and browsing experience for bloggers and readers.

http://jekyllrb.com/
In the case of Jekyll you have a complete control of your site because is a cms
It is written in Ruby and requires NodeJS. It is a lot different than WordPress. For starters it is a static site generator which means it takes your text and generates static HTML pages for your site (no database). You can use free hosting provided by GitHub Pages with Jekyll. This means that if you are familiar with Markdown, SVN, Git, and command line, then you will be up and running in no-time. In other words, this is made for developers!