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

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Is there not federated WordPress?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I will look into that. Thanks. And WordPress doesn't let you tinker with the base code like they used to.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

If you want to make changes without dealing with update hassles:

Make a child theme to your current theme which inherits from it.
Add a functions.php to your child theme, which only includes specific overrides for functionality you want to override.
Presto change-o you are immune to stuff getting ruined with updates. (Aside from API changes and things but those are relatively rare in my experience, for the most part it all just works.)