I ran my own blog for many years but recently I suspect my server got hacked, and after reinstalling I want to do things a little differently.
I'd like to move away from PHP and I don't really need a dynamic CMS anyhow.
So far I've been using PicoCMS which serves content from markdown pages with a little header. I got quite good at it, wrote my own theme and a few plugins. The templating language is Twig so something similar would be a boon for me.
Writing content in markdown is my most important requirement, or rather reusing the existing pages with as little massaging as possible. Here is one example:
***
Title: Create WiFi Hotspot with NetworkManager
date: 24.11.2022
Tags: archlinux,android
template: post
***
# Make sure required depenencies are installed
blablablablablablablabla
I really want a tag cloud, which used to be my only sorting mechanism apart from date. Most generators, at first glance, offer a tags page. Honestly I have no idea if I'd have to template the cloud myself but tag functionality seems to be common, I guess?
What I don't want is any sort of web UI or even builtin server functionality or other bells and whistles for the user. I prefer to ssh into the server and do things on the CLI.
Now my most important constraint is that I want to use what's available in (or as a) Debian repositories. After a quick search around it boils down to:
Searching for similar topics I found this and this. I read all the comments.
TIA
edit: Lots of people mention Hugo. Why would I choose that over, say, Jekyll or Pelican?
Personally I feel drawn more towards Python than Go or Rust, and a Twig-like (e.g. Jinja) templating language. If that's idiotic, please let me know why.
Also please remember I'm not running a github (or other similar VCS) page but have a dedicated VPS running Debian Stable. Deployment or containerization are of no interest to me.
I like Hugo, though it's been the only one I used. May get too involved, and some themes have features others may not have, for example, comment integration may not exist for some themes.
That's usually fixable with templating. What sort of comment integration? Some third party I guess?
Self host and third party exists. You probably could use Lemmy as a shoddy way to make comments too
On a static site generator? Can you link me to that please?
What about Hugo's templating language? It's been said to be daunting:
I was fighting with my linter tbh still have no clue how to write html in go like its php
And, for the comments part, I haven't looked into it, it's likely just a JavaScript file that connects to your server or an external one and pulls all data and whatever, its the single dynamic part and it's done with js