Blogging website - recommendations?
We have a couple blogs going through the free stuff that Google Blogger offers: There are inherent limitations of course, largely because we are not paying for the service, just using the free part...
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BobsYourUncle wrote:
Didn't really want to make it completely public, but rather just have it for select people, family, friends and others who ask. Google I think limits us to 7 emails to have access to it. Not enough with only 7.
I haven't used Blogger in years, so don't know it's current capabilities? Have you looked at free Wordpress.com? Though don't know if they allow specific 'roles' in the free version which could restrict access to pages?
Drupal can do this easily, and is open-source with a large support community? It's used by millions of websites worldwide. Though you will likely need to pay for suitable hosting? Pantheon.io used to offer free Drupal hosting, though orientated toward developers, so can be confusing to use?
As someone who admins/develops Drupal sites, the biggest drawback is that it has a high learning curve? Drupal is actually considered a CMS framework, which is along the lines of if you want a blog site, use Wordpress. If you want to build Wordpress, use Drupal? Or stated differently, you can build a blog to work the way you want?
What is particularly useful about Drupal that you mentioned, is that you can restrict access to pages based on roles or permissions when users 'Sign-in' to your site. You can even control who sees what content on a particular page based on these permissions?
If you know someone who works with Drupal, they may be able to help setup a site. You would then just have to learn how to administer the site, which is not as difficult a task?
