undecided whether wordpress or static website like hugo for niche website

[dabenore]

Hello,

maybe I can get some good points to decide which I will use.

I like the approach of static website, the simplicity, the pure. When I use this with version control, I always have a history and can rollback at any time. I also don't need much to host a static website.

Then the pages are usually faster, which may help with google ranking.

With Wordpress the community is bigger, there is actually a solution to every problem.

I can program myself and feel comfortable with Golang, so Hugo is ideal.

With Wordpress it is more difficult to adjust things in the code.

But I don't know if the website will be monetized, if it will be easier in Wordpress or if it will be relatively easy in a static website as well.

Thanks for reading
David

 

[Jawnwalrus]

Wordpress sites can be really fast if you use all the right plugins like Cloudfare, w3 chance, image optimizers, etc.

Wordpress is just overall better because there’s more functionality & capabilities.

 

[sci0n]

I do everything I can in static, it's super cheap to host (even free) and no maintenance. You'll never get hacked either.

The only thing is you have to be comfortable with markdown and just basically working with pure text, not graphic editors and CMS-like backends.

I've made Wordpress sites that pass web vitals well, so it's definitely possible too, it just takes a bit more work but not really that much more if you know what you're doing.

 

[hkhkhkhkhk123]

I do everything I can in static, it's super cheap to host (even free) and no maintenance. You'll never get hacked either.

The only thing is you have to be comfortable with markdown and just basically working with pure text, not graphic editors and CMS-like backends.

I've made Wordpress sites that pass web vitals well, so it's definitely possible too, it just takes a bit more work but not really that much more if you know what you're doing.

I'd appreciate if you can also tell whether or not google adesence is working fine on a static site like hugo.

 

[IM Dude]

If you blogging use WordPress, hands down no questions asked. If you want a website anything goes, I personally like squrespace due to the clean design out of the box.

 

[hkhkhkhkhk123]

If you blogging use WordPress, hands down no questions asked. If you want a website anything goes, I personally like squrespace due to the clean design out of the box.

Don't comment on things beyond your knowledge. You don't know the whole world of blogging. You are saying this because that's all you know about.

 

[DogNamedRottles]

It really depends on what the end product is. If it's a blogging platform where you have dynamic content, need more interactivity with your traffic, and much prefer not messing around with technical aspects - then Wordpress is the platform of choice.

If you still want everything above but want more control over your CMS but with better accessibility then Strapi.js is freaking awesome too.

But the majority of the time, you could really get away with a static site generator like Hugo with a little bit of coding finesse. Although it's a personal opinion since I get enjoy implementing custom solutions in my products.

 

[IM Dude]

Don't comment on things beyond your knowledge. You don't know the whole world of blogging. You are saying this because that's all you know about.

Actually I will and what you gonna do blogging with static site?

 

[hkhkhkhkhk123]

Actually I will and what you gonna do blogging with static site?

I don't know. What are gonna do blogging with a dynamic site?

 

[DogNamedRottles]

If you blogging use WordPress, hands down no questions asked. If you want a website anything goes, I personally like squrespace due to the clean design out of the box.

I like Squarespace I always thought it was a sexy CMS. Although, I can't justify paying for it though :\

 

[sci0n]

I'd appreciate if you can also tell whether or not google adesence is working fine on a static site like hugo.

yeah it does. the site in my profile here is a jekyll and runs plain adsense.

they just give you a code snippet to paste into <head> and then either you run the auto-ads (no need to do anything else) or you do the individual ads. For the individual ads you generate snippets in adsense and paste them into the template.

In jekyll, I make a file like

_data/ads.yaml

and store the ad snippets there.

# ads.yaml
ad_728x90: '<div class="some"><a href="...."......'
ad_160x600: '<div class="some"><a href="...."......'

and then in Jekyll you can just put {{ site.data.ads.ad_728x900 }} anywhere in text or in templates.

in the past i also used ezoic on a different jekyll one too, had some small issues setting that up but mostly it worked ok.

 

[777FLICK]

Wordpress, once you get some essential plugins like Rank Math you can use them for all your sites. You can manage everything using one account etc. It's more convenient.