Ghost Blogging Busting

I moved from Ghost blogging plaform self-hosted on one of my servers at home using a Docker compose file to the simplified use of a static site generator that is Hugo. There was quite a bit of a learning curve being that I am not a developer but YouTube and other resources on the internet were instrumental in helping me set everything up. Now, I just have Hugo installed on my Fedora workstation and a RHEL 8 web server for posting all the files that Hugo generates.

The issue with Ghost is that it seemed that it was more than I needed and not as easily customizable. With Hugo, all that you really need to know is markdown. One caveat that really threw me for a loop when I was searching for a good theme on Hugo’s theme page is that a majority of the theme developers required you to know Git and the workings of Github. As stated before, I am not a developer so I don’t use Git or Github extensively (although I’ve been saying for years I really need to learn it just for my script library alone) so it took a bit of time and trial & error until I could find a good theme that had simple instructions and implementation (currently using Poison theme).

However, even though it is running now, there are still some tweaks and fixes I need to complete (currently, tags are a problem), and other issues I haven’t discovered yet, that will need to be corrected in the coming months of use.