I have been meaning to write blogs for a long time now. I have considered doing so with WordPress in past, but I have seen enough struggles and horrors my friends at Evincism experienced with it that I have so far avoided it. I don’t really feel like voluntarily dealing with PHP.
Funnily enough, I will soon start a new job at rtCamp which is a company selling WordPress solutions – fate has made dealing with WordPress unavoidable for me.
I really enjoy plain-text editing and have been thinking of writing my own blogging platform that allows publishing articles written in MarkDown or a similar plain-text format. (spoiler: I never sat down to actually do that)
Yesterday, while looking for a cheap .moe domain for my personal site and blog, and browsing featured sites on nic.moe, I ended up on skk.moe which is a website owned by a core team member of Hexo. It drew my attention. While experimenting with it I realised it was exactly what I have been looking for. Hexo is simple, configurable with YML, and generates static sites – perfect!
I decided to finally start my own blog with Hexo and here we are. I have decided to leave the theme (and most configuration actually) to default for now but I will probably be writing my own once I find time to do so.
Below lies the original body of the “Hello Word” article Hexo comes with by default. I left it there because why not.
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Welcome to Hexo! This is your very first post. Check documentation for more info. If you get any problems when using Hexo, you can find the answer in troubleshooting or you can ask me on GitHub.
Quick Start
Create a new post
1 | $ hexo new "My New Post" |
More info: Writing
Run server
1 | $ hexo server |
More info: Server
Generate static files
1 | $ hexo generate |
More info: Generating
Deploy to remote sites
1 | $ hexo deploy |
More info: Deployment