Moving from WordPress.

The ads on WordPress started to bother me a bit. Therefor I pulled up google.com and started looking for alternatives.

The great thing about WordPress is that it's stable and has a huge ecosystem. But my needs are simple:

• Free
• No ads
• Post from command line is a plus

On Google I found a couple of lists, and set out for a new home.

Disqualified

WordPress and Tumblr both have ads.

Neither Ghost, Svbtle, Posthaven or Postagon is free.

Pen.io has a quasi ad at the bottom, but worse - it doesn't seem to have any way of password recovery or support for any text formatting. Nor did it have any way to publish for command line, but the system is so simple that I think it would easy to make something.

Sett did good. Free and with import from Wordpress. But I couldn't find any way to publish from command line. Wouldn't be the biggest loss if it hadn't been for the fact that it just seems a bit slow and lacks that polished touch.

The shortlist

Postach.io (Evernote) need to rely on Disqus for comments and no preview before you post. But allegedly has support for MarkDown. That's a plus. There's also Geeknote for CLI posting.

Blogger isn't really pretty. But it has CLI and a large ecosystem.

Github Pages with Jekyll, perhaps with Octopress or something. By far the most suitable solution for this blogs theme. There's also solutions for importing from WordPress. And saving posts as text files is certainly great for posterity. But it's a lot of work to set this up.

Medium requires a Twitter or Facebok account. That's going to be a nuisance.