Want to test a new blog script?

Hi Guys,

I must be one of the few exceptions who hate WordPress lol it's too bulky, in my opinion database and file wise, i created my own blog script, demo: https://www.the-golfer-guys.com/

This is not a sales thread of any kind, I'm going to give it away free, does anyone want a copy to test and feedback issues/features? it's not meant to look the prettiest it's made to be as technically sound as possible, a couple of things I added as standard:

1) - It automatically links to relevant pages on your site (interlinking): https://www.the-golfer-guys.com/785...rriers-the-exciting-journey-of-lizette-salas/
2) - It has shortener support so you can mask your affiliate links.
4) - Mobile support is pretty solid (I think lol)

Plus more, if anyone wants to try it: https://github.com/grahammccann/BlogScript i know i need to make the top nav menu a lot nicer!

regards

Graham

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graham25s said:

I must be one of the few exceptions who hate WordPress lol it's too bulky, in my opinion database and file wise,

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I'm with you there fella, too much bloat when all you need is a few db queries to spit out whatever articles are there. I'll take a look at your script when I have time, see how easy it is to spin up a splog or two

@Steptoe Someone else who agrees!!

On my cloud server, from Vultr, i'm getting "Database connection issues" every now and then, to troubleshoot you need to go over theme files, plugins the lot, then the constant hack attempt in the logs, which is almost like a DDOS attack. it's endless.

I tried to make this as simple as possible: https://www.the-golfer-guys.com/781-master-your-golf-game-a-closer-look-at-titleist-t200-irons/

All the table of contents links are auto-generated if you put an affiliate link in on the post page: https://www.the-golfer-guys.com/781-master-your-golf-game-a-closer-look-at-titleist-t200-irons/ the green box appears and if the shortener is called:

https://www.the-golfer-guys.com/recommends/titleist-t200-irons/ in the article if it finds those words together: "titleist t200 irons" it will auto-link it in red as an outgoing link, robots.txt and sitemaps are auto-created too.

The only thing I never bothered adding in was comments, from a UGC aspect, it might have been good, could add it in as an external option like Discuz comments I think it is where it's not stored on your server.

I'll keep updating the reo too

cheers mate

Graham

- why do you have 'f0llow, noindex' on category/39-product-reviews/ ? SEO purposes?
- in text you have mismatched H tags <h2 id='3'>The Touch of Max Impact Technology</h4>
- go to https://gtmetrix.com there are some small issues that can be fixed, like "Set an explicit width and height on image elements to reduce layout shifts and improve CLS" for thumbnails in sidebar, and too big images.
Not bad, I don't like header and menu, it looks like from the '90-ies, and sidebar looks too narrow (or font size big, and image too small) but with a bit of css-ing it can be better.
It would be awesome to use sqlite as database, more portability considering how affiliate sites often move between hosting servers or want to replicate the site but with slightly different design scheme and products, work would be faster.

I will try it. Thanks for sharing.

it's fast I can give you that. But the design looks dated like from the 2000s. I wouldn't trust the information coming from this website. Mobile performance is not good according to PageSpeed Insights. If you don't like WordPress check Ghost.org it's a popular alternative.

Good tips guys, noted image elements was on the list to i will keep updating the repo with updates.

cheers guys

Graham

graham25s said:

Hi Guys,

I must be one of the few exceptions who hate WordPress lol it's too bulky, in my opinion database and file wise, i created my own blog script, demo: https://www.the-golfer-guys.com/

This is not a sales thread of any kind, I'm going to give it away free, does anyone want a copy to test and feedback issues/features? it's not meant to look the prettiest it's made to be as technically sound as possible, a couple of things I added as standard:

1) - It automatically links to relevant pages on your site (interlinking): https://www.the-golfer-guys.com/785...rriers-the-exciting-journey-of-lizette-salas/
2) - It has shortener support so you can mask your affiliate links.
4) - Mobile support is pretty solid (I think lol)

Plus more, if anyone wants to try it: https://github.com/grahammccann/BlogScript i know i need to make the top nav menu a lot nicer!

regards

Graham

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This is nice, I moved to jekyll from WordPress, need to try your script too