MrDigital's Musings

The research I’ve done and found for a static site generation system

I’ll start out by saying that for years I’ve been a proponent of Wordpress. It’s an end user friendly system that allows for a tremendous amount of freedom for users who might not know all the ins and outs of how to host and manage a website’s back-end. There is nothing wrong with that. It’s made it very easy for clients to publish blog posts with minimal technical know-how.

I’ve gone down the rabbit hole of a static site generator after really taking a look at what I do on my own websites, which I’ve also run using Wordpress powered systems, and the results were…not much. I don’t do anything that is considered dynamic on my sites. They’re really just a series of static pages that don’t change unless there is a text edit or something needing to be added to that particular post or page.

So that brings me to what that means.

Hello!

Welcome to my new ”blog” or whatever you want to call something like this. I’ve been experimenting with some new static content generators because I’m kind of tired of maintaining a WordPress blog for what seems like things that don’t need that kind of overhead. A costly (possibly) hosting plan, SQL database, plugins, themes, and updates that seem to be constantly required and maintained.

It’s not that I can’t do these things, but they are easy to forget and not get taken care of promptly, and before you know it your site is 15 versions out of date and you don’t know the ramifications of doing the updates and if it could break everything…so you don’t and just keep putting it off.