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Wanting to restart my Webcomic. Any alternative to Wordpress that I could use on my website?

Is there not federated WordPress?

Edit: Okay its done, not pretty but I like it and it will do for now. I mostly want it as a guide to send people to my different social media sites and my Payreon where I have decided to post the webcomic.

But if you want to check it out its www.fredselfish.com

And added bonus here a story I have written today that I wanted to share.

https://therealfredselfish.substack.com/p/my-love-for-yellowstone

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Pixelfed?
- I think this is a good suggestion. As a single user, you could still theme it while also providing cross-posting of other artists you like. Additionally, your network would act as a "web ring" of sorts.
- No I don't need a software for drawing. I mean for posting. Back in the day I had Comicpress with WordPress but I know that not an option anymore, and was looking for something not WordPress.
  
  Pixelfed is like Mastodon but for images. It's an instagram replacement.
  
  Pixelfed is the Fediverse alternative to Instagram, it is for posting, not drawing.

Look into the term static site generator.
- Okay I do that.
- Just did Eww fuck AI don't want use fhat garbage.
  
  SSGs are not related to AI and have been a thing for a long time. You won't see anything about AI in the wiki article.
  
  It has nothing to do with AI
  Here's a list of those platforms

You can always make it manually with notepad(++).
- No thanks.

Maybe write freely? It's federated and blog format
- Thsnks I look imto it.

Hugo is nice if you want extensive customization and you’re okay fighting with Go code and templates, a little bit.

What format are you looking for? Something like a comic layout?
- Just a way to post my comics on my website and people can click through them. Like how Comicpress worked back in the day.

Wordpress as a framework is kinda federated, you can host your own server if you want to.
You can look into wysiwyg website editors, self hosting a website with aws and s3 is wicked cheap, and other providers like netlify are also inexpensive to a lesser degree.
- I will look into that. Thanks. And WordPress doesn't let you tinker with the base code like they used to.
  
  They do if you host it yourself. I've done a fair bit of WordPress development. You can add your own plugins that override base functionality, and if that isn't enough you can just modify the base code directly (but you'll have to reconcile it with updates if you want to update).

Grav CMS?

You could check with @MrSebSin@sh.itjust.works, who created and runs https://bellobear.com/ (and posts them on Lemmy to !bellobearofficial@lemmy.world)
- What for?
  
  I use Wordpress for mine. You might check out Substack. Which you can also use it to monetize your comic.
  
  An alternative to Wordpress would be my guess, since that was your question.

Idk if this would work but bearblog is a nice platform for releasing stuff. You can customize it a lot and the UI is pretty nice.

You need to follow it, but the thing is, you're probably just as well off posting a link from your own account. It comes up as a separate account for me. I don't think the federation there is really worth it

WordPress can be federated https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/
- I have installed wordpress but nothing changed it still shit to work with. Anyone can help me design damn thing without using fucking theams and how I can access the code for the whole thing, not just in a post?
  
  What's your experience? Are you a web developer or in IT?

I'm hosting writefreely with picsur as the image host for my blog. They're pretty lightweight. Otherwise a static site generator like others suggested.
- Do you find that Writefreely federates well? I've tried hosting it a couple of times but my accounts weren't discoverable on many other Fediverse instances. I never got to the bottom of why. I really like it though and would love for it to work out.

The answer is probably "no", but.... Any interest in rolling your own? I once wrote a webcomic engine for a friend, and it was pretty trivial: a simple mod_perl script that grabbed a template and substituted a codeword with the picture the client requested.
Nothing fancy and pretty lightweight. My friend uploaded any new comics via FTP and made some minor changes to the template from time to time. It did the job well.
- I can do badic html and css and thought of doing that way but it would look very early 2000. Besides not looking to code and do the artwork. Already do that for one website and its not pretty.

Faircamp is great for this for music - I wonder if it could be pretty easily adapted for art, too.
- Nice but not sure how to fix for art.
  
  It would be something to discuss with the Faircamp devs. If Faircamp seems like what you want except you would just plug in images instead of music, then maybe it would be worth pursuing.
  If Faircamp doesn't quite seem like what you want, it's not.

Yes.
First, yes, WordPress can be federated with a plugin.
If you're looking for the easiest, most developed, option, it's usually WordPress.
Alternately, there are many ways to join anything that produces RSS to the Fediverse.
(And of course WordPress also supports RSS)
(And lots of other hosted options support RSS!)
Static site generators like Jekyl and 11ty are particularly well suited to building a website to share comics.
Both can also produce an RSS feed, with the correct plugin.
- Yeah looking into them, never used RSS and not sure how it works? Can you explain it?
  
  An RSS file is a plain text, computer readable file that you add to your website, containing a list of all recent posts that you want to promote.
  Anytime I add a post to my blog, I update my RSS file. (Well, a piece of automation does, I could hand edit it, but I'm lla lazy programmer.) Then a service I registered with shares any new posts (posts with today's date) to services line Mastodon or Lemmy through bot accounts that I set up.
  People can also subscribe directly to the RSS feed (file), using various news reading apps. (But I think following RSS through Mastodon and Lemmy bots is becoming more popular, lately?)
  You can learn a lot more about the RSS through the RSS Specification, but you may not need to.
  I find that WordPress and other blog solutions mostly just make good default assumptions whenever I have turned on the RSS feature or plugin.

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