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 ====== Blogging Platforms ====== ====== Blogging Platforms ======
  
-I've recently been playing with self-hosted blogging platforms.... +I've recently been playing with self-hosted blogging platforms.
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 It started with revisiting the Blog plugin for Dokuwiki and deciding that I wanted to use a purpose made blog platform instead. It started with revisiting the Blog plugin for Dokuwiki and deciding that I wanted to use a purpose made blog platform instead.
  
-This brought me back to re-visit Chyrp-Lite, which I found easy to set up and to use.+This brought me back to re-visit [[https://chyrplite.net/ | Chyrp-Lite]] which I found easy to set up and to use.
  
-Then I found Pure Blog, which seemed even more light-weight and more akin to what I was looking for....+Then I found [[https://pureblog.org/ | Pure Blog]] which seemed even more light-weight and more akin to what I was looking for.
  
-Then I found I was updating wiki-pages here in Dokuwiki and updating Blog pages in Pure Blog - both running on the same webserver.+===== =====
  
-And I found it annoying to have to mentally flip between forms of Markdown. I got on with it, as I thought there was a benefit in separating wiki-like pages from blog-like posts.+ 
 +Then I found I was updating wiki-pages here in Dokuwiki and updating Blog pages in Pure Blog. Both are running on the same web-server. 
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 +And although I found it annoying to have to mentally flip between forms of Markdown, I got on with it, as I thought there was a benefit in separating wiki-like pages from blog-like posts.
  
 ==== Pure Blog drawbacks ==== ==== Pure Blog drawbacks ====
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 My two instances of dokuwiki (home and work-related) ran in their own sub-directories, as does my old vintage 2001 website. So far so good. My two instances of dokuwiki (home and work-related) ran in their own sub-directories, as does my old vintage 2001 website. So far so good.
  
-Today I used the Pure Blog in-built update function to update the code to the latest version, and I found **before pressing the GO button** that the script wanted to clean out the directory of anything that wasn't part of Pure Blog. That meant my sub-directories containing dokuwiki etc.+Today I used the Pure Blog in-built update function to update the code to the latest version, and I found **before pressing the GO button** that the script wanted to clean out the webserver root directory of anything that wasn't part of //Pure Blog//.  
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 +That meant my sub-directories containing dokuwiki etc.
  
-Well, that's not going to happen...+Well, that's //**not**// going to happen...
  
-Bye Bye Pure Blog.+Instead it's "Bye Bye Pure Blog"
  
 ==== Back to Dokuwiki ==== ==== Back to Dokuwiki ====

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