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Best way to add a blog to an existing, static website? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/webdev

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I exported a Wordpress site as a static site and have been hosting that on Gitlab. I'd like to start updating the blog again and I'm wondering how to go about it.

For the blog, I've been adding/coding the entries manually, which I still prefer to using Wordpress. Now I have someone who needs to take over the blog and I need something more simple for them.

I've looked into DropInBlog ( https://dropinblog.com ) but it's way beyond our budget, so I've been thinking to either:

Give them git access and let them add a text file and image to a special directory when they want to post. Then I can have a script run a few times per hour which converts that into a blog post. I'd also need to update the blog index with my own code.
Let them use something RSS based with a nice interface and scrape that to generate the blog. Mastodon is one option, as is Wordpress. Ideally the blog they maintain would not be accessible to others on the web though. I don't want to split our SEO presence.

Does anyone have a better suggestion? The website doesn't use a framework like Jekyll or any of those. It's just HTML, CSS and JS.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I thought Jekyll just compiled the input files to html/css/js and created a static site?

Hugo, too? I hear Hugo is easier.

I haven't used either of them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

They do. The issue is that I already have a static site. I don't want Jekyll or Hugo to overwrite those. I suppose I can choose which sections I push to Gitlab Pages. Maybe one of those would work in that case.