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Simple Ways To Build Your Own Blog

Ryan Furrer on January 17, 2020

This was originally published on 1/16/20 at Coding Catchup Let me start this off with the fact that I love DEV. It has created a fantastic communi...
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Thadeu

Got me motivated to build my own blog again :)
Had given up a few months ago because I got too jammed at work, it kind of demotivated me.

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Ryan Furrer

Excellent!

I today understand, it’s not easy to keep it going but I’m all about trying to make 1% changes that continue to build and stack on top of each other.

Get back at it!

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Thanh Truong

Thanks for sharing Ryan! Do you cross-post your content to DEV? If so, how do you do that?

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Ryan Furrer

Hi Thanh! I cross post manually right now. I currently write my blogs in Notion, then copy + paste them to my own blog via Netlify CMS, then I do the same to DEV.

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Thanh Truong • Edited

Actually, I found a way to cross-post content to DEV without having to manually copying and pasting content. In case you didn't know, DEV has the "Publishing to DEV Community from RSS" feature, which can be found under Setting -> Extensions. Using the RSS URL for your blog, you can fetch content automatically there.😉

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Paul

Good post

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Ryan Furrer

Thank you, Paul!

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Lautaro Lobo

I've been using Middleman since day 1 and it's a 10 out of 10 :) Maybe WordPress is another simple one too?

And thanks for sharing! I'll probably gonna test Vuepress.

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Ryan Furrer

Hmm I had never heard of Middleman but it looks interesting as well!

WordPress is obviously always a solution, however, it’s so well known and tbh I’ve never been crazy about it as much as I’ve tried to use it in the past 😂

Thanks for reading, by the way! I’ve not learned any Vue yet but I want to in the future...in which case I’ll also check out VuePress!

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Ann Nguyen

I've been in the WP ecosystem for too long. You've inspired me to get into headless CMSs!

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Ryan Furrer

Woohoo!! Enjoy it 😄

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Clive Da

you might also be interested in AUTOPOSTing from github to DEVTO or FAST.IO see dev.to/osde8info/auto-posting-from...

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