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is there an ssg that is entirely web based? I don't want local files or to use a terminal. I would move away from Wordpress (and would like to) if something let me click a few buttons to set up a simple blog. I don't need anything fancy.. Let me make some basic choices and post my blogs.

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If you like WordPress as a writing and management tool, it's worth noting that there are several static site generators for WordPress.[1][2]

[1] http://en.staticpress.net/, https://github.com/megumiteam/staticpress [2] https://wordpress.org/plugins/simply-static/

Jekyll recently got a first-party admin plugin that might meet your needs[1]. You'd still need to use a terminal to set it up. I'm not quite sure what you mean by not wanting local files, but your files would be wherever you're hosting your site from.

[1] https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-admin

I've used prose [0] with a few clients. Its just a web interface for messing with Jekyll, hosted on GitHub. So you might have to upload the Jekyll site to GitHub once, but after that you can edit it as you like.

It also adds some configuration that you can add to Jekyll's config, letting you decide how each menu in the admin console should appear. [1]

[0] http://prose.io/

[1] https://github.com/shakna-israel/haddonRevamp/blob/gh-pages/...

Shameless plug...

https://github.com/Malcx/DamnSmallBlog

You can just develop it on a Cloud9 web IDE.

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