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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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[–] Johny5@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (5 children)
[–] MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago

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.

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[–] some_guy 12 points 1 week ago (13 children)

Look into the term static site generator.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You can always make it manually with notepad(++).

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago
[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Maybe write freely? It's federated and blog format

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Thsnks I look imto it.

[–] m_f@discuss.online 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] MrSebSin@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I use Wordpress for mine. You might check out Substack. Which you can also use it to monetize your comic.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah but then it wouldn't be on my website. And no thanks to WordPress they enshitfication and don't allow you to change the code. So fuck them. Also they destroy Comicpress best thing they had for webcomics.

[–] MrSebSin@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I get it, but you can pretty much bend Wordpress to do anything you want, even without coding. I for one suck at coding and have found a Theme I use for building all my sites and customers as well.

I don’t know you whatsoever and you don’t know me, so take this with a huge grain of salt, but sounds to me you are looking for a reason not to bring back your webcomic.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No just don't want to use WordPress.

[–] MrSebSin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Fair enough. Keep us posted on what you ended up using.

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

An alternative to Wordpress would be my guess, since that was your question.

[–] 0x01@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week 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.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week 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).

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 1 points 1 week 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.)
[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago
[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 3 points 1 week ago

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

[–] RagingHungryPanda@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What format are you looking for? Something like a comic layout?

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Just a way to post my comics on my website and people can click through them. Like how Comicpress worked back in the day.

[–] tfm@europe.pub 2 points 1 week ago (6 children)
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[–] RagingHungryPanda@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

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

[–] andyburke@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Faircamp is great for this for music - I wonder if it could be pretty easily adapted for art, too.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nice but not sure how to fix for art.

[–] andyburke@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

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.

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.

[–] RagingHungryPanda@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

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.

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