Simplest CMS for blog type website

Question

Hi, my wife and I are planning a long adventure trip and I wanted to create some some sort of travel blog with Next.js or similar stack that I'm familiar with. The problem is my wife will probably write most of the content and she is not technical at all so I'm looking for a very simple CMS, easy to setup and free where she could write up stories and publish them on a daily basis. Mostly text, images and maybe videos. I've looked at some headless CMS on jamstack.org but they're so many ...

stefanos82 · Accepted Answer

There you go mate https://www.wondercms.com/Have fun with your trip(s)!

keiferski · Answer

Just use WordPress. These other options like Jekyll or a headless CMS will be too complicated.

nowandlater · Answer

If you really want to go headless, and I know I'm going to catch flak for this, but consider Drupal 10. Install it using all of the defaults, create a content type for your blog with whatever fields (the built in fields are all enough). Enable the included RESTful web services module. Add a Drupal view with its default display as REST export and you now have data to consume by whatever tooling you want to use. Drupal 10's default admin theme and WYSIWYG editor are straight forward / pleasing to use.Like others have suggested, use WordPress if your main goal is simplicity and ease of use.

abdul_muqeet · Answer

I suggest you to use medium(https://medium.com) for this purpose. and you can also use Blogger.
And if your wife wants to know how to write travel blog stories then you must visit Top Travel Advice (https://toptraveladvice.com/blog/). And if you don't find any trustable place to post your travel stories then you can also post your stories on this site as a guest posting.
hope this will be helpful for you and your wife.

codeptualize · Answer

If you don't want to use Medium or similar solutions, I would check out Ghost.
Their dashboard and editor is imo one of the best out there, really easy to use.
It's easy to host, works headless, and works well with Next.js and others (https://ghost.org/docs/jamstack/next/).
Usually the downside is that it can be a bit limiting in features , but it's perfect for blogging.

nicbou · Answer

Why not pick Wordpress?

umtksa · Answer

https://getpublii.com/ I'm using it for my portfolio.

rcarr · Answer

Have a look at Tina CMS: it&rsquo;s git based so you don&rsquo;t have to worry about moving your content or having it locked up in a proprietary format. And it has good integration with nextjs so you can see what your changes would look like on the website in real time.https://tina.io/

mobilio · Answer

Grav https://getgrav.org

mumugo · Answer

Google showed me an ad for https://doc2.site, does anyone have experience with that ? Seems new ?Anyway she tried medium and I think she likes it ...

morris2day · Answer

Hey there!I'm the CTO of caisy.io, and we've recently released a new starter template designed specifically for blogs built with Next.js. Our headless CMS is incredibly user-friendly for editors, so your wife should have no trouble creating and publishing content on a daily basis.The free tier we offer should be more than enough for a typical blog page. To get started, just sign up at https://app.caisy.io/app/signup. We're always eager to hear feedback from users to help us improve and grow, so we would love to hear your thoughts on our platform.If you have any questions or need assistance, please don't hesitate to reach out on our discord channel.Best regards

mumugo · Answer

Please no markdown based CMS as this is is too technical for her. Also self hosted is excluded, too much of hassle for me to maintain it ...

warrenm · Answer

Are you already on Facebook?I know lots of people who make a private group to post travel photos etc in

Agunderman10 · Answer

Strapi is a solid headless CMS and is built for Next.js

Simplest CMS for blog type website

There you go mate https://www.wondercms.com/
Have fun with your trip(s)!

Just use WordPress. These other options like Jekyll or a headless CMS will be too complicated.

Why not pick Wordpress?

https://getpublii.com/ I'm using it for my portfolio.

Have a look at Tina CMS: it’s git based so you don’t have to worry about moving your content or having it locked up in a proprietary format. And it has good integration with nextjs so you can see what your changes would look like on the website in real time.
https://tina.io/

Grav https://getgrav.org

Google showed me an ad for https://doc2.site, does anyone have experience with that ? Seems new ?
Anyway she tried medium and I think she likes it ...

Please no markdown based CMS as this is is too technical for her. Also self hosted is excluded, too much of hassle for me to maintain it ...

Are you already on Facebook?
I know lots of people who make a private group to post travel photos etc in

Strapi is a solid headless CMS and is built for Next.js