Jekyll vs Wordpress

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The only differense between both platforms is the performance speed. We have customers who run on top 3 with different platforms so it's not about the platform but the final optimization and performance.

e.g static content + ssd storage + ssl + catche + nginx will boost you on the sky :)

WordPress was will and will be the prefered platform, the question is... what you can / should do to make it better :)
 
jerrymc said:
I agree took me a few months to learn. I received so many errors at the beginning mostly because my computer is not optimized for it.

What's your experience with Jekyll?
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Yep we need to install a lot of things if we're using Windows. But using jekyll was a good experience and if i were to create a "blog only" site then i would go with Jekyll over wordpress
 
Super comfortable with wordpress. So much support and tons of plugins.
 
I'm using several databaseless cms like jekyll, htmly, and hugo. It fast but you need to learn each cms
 
jerrymc said:
Has anybody found better SEO results using Jekyll over Wordpress for blogging?
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A different CMS will not affect the SEO of your site. BTW, every 4th site in the Internet runs WordPress and every site has its own level of SEO ;)
 
I haven't use Jekyll and haven't heard it before. I use WP which have the following features that in my experience.
1. More user- friendly
2. Easy to make ON page SEO.
3. Templates are very cool.
4. Easily submit the blog to the Google.
5. Easily find the error if occurs.
 
It says no database, so I would be a little worried. I am a database guy anyday. Migrating the data would be a pain. On the other hand it uses ruby, which is awesome and fast. So, interesting option.
 
I personally like wordpress. Never used or heard of Jekyll before though.
 
Jekyll is great for pbn sites that you run on cheap hosting because you don't need all the resources Wordpress requires. You can also deploy your static site to Amazon S3 very easily. There are other cool static site generators out there as well as flat file CMS such as Grav. What I love the best about these tools is being able to write my posts in markdown. I find markdown is such a great format that can easily be converted to other formats.

I'm an application developer by trade so I enjoy trying new technology out. There are so many tools out there which is a blessing and a curse. Does it make sense to use Wordpress for a single page site? Probably not.
 
cnick79 said:
Jekyll is great for pbn sites that you run on cheap hosting because you don't need all the resources Wordpress requires. You can also deploy your static site to Amazon S3 very easily. There are other cool static site generators out there as well as flat file CMS such as Grav. What I love the best about these tools is being able to write my posts in markdown. I find markdown is such a great format that can easily be converted to other formats.

I'm an application developer by trade so I enjoy trying new technology out. There are so many tools out there which is a blessing and a curse. Does it make sense to use Wordpress for a single page site? Probably not.
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That's awesome. One of the things I don't like about wordpress is some themes don't support markdown and it isn't standard or default in the installation there is usually plugin installation involved.
 
I'm going to check out it soon. It looks promising so far from what I've read here and looked at jekyll enthusiast sites. Wordpress is getting more and more bloated, with long overdue features not even standard.
 
The only problems I have so far is setting up a theme for it, photo galleries are a bitch for it if you have a ton of images(hundreds of thousands) but you can easily use a off site image host.
 
In my opinion, Jekyll should only be used if you know what you are doing. If you just are looking to crank a site out, my suggestion is always Wordpress. I need to look more into the SEO-based differences between the two, but with the various SEO plugins for Wordpress, combined with proper SEO technique, I don't see how Jekyll would have a noticeable advantage.
 
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