Blogging platorm.. maybe?

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Hi all,

I have a load of markdown text files on my computer of recipes.

I would like to publish them so my friends and family can have access (and i can organise them in a meaningful way). I would like to do this as painlessly as possible, and would like someway to group them on the site, e.g. these recipes are starters, these are vegetarian, these are salads etc.

Im not sure of the best platform to do this, any ideas?
 
Are you looking to host it yourself or with a webhost, or a platform where all the tech is done?

if the latter look at blogger (free), weebly, squarespace, possibly tumblr (free) or wordpress.com (you can also self host - see wordpress.org)
 
thanks all

I thought wordpress would be a possible, but how best to get a few dozen text files onto wordpress as individual posts, efficiently?
 
I'd use wordpress.

If you have your own domain and webspace, host it yourself, if not go via wordpress.com

Create a new post for each recipe.
Cut and paste each recipe.
Tidy up, reformat if necessary, add photos if you want
Publish.

You can also assign multiple categories, how you use these is up to you, but I could envisage using some such as savoury / sweet, principal ingredients, difficulty.
 
Thanks all. Yes, fortunately i do have all of the files sensibly arranged, but unfortunately there are currently 217 files i wish to convert to posts. Surely theres a better way than copying / pasting to each separate post?
 
Rapscallion said:
Thanks all. Yes, fortunately i do have all of the files sensibly arranged, but unfortunately there are currently 217 files i wish to convert to posts. Surely theres a better way than copying / pasting to each separate post?
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Probably not if you're currently not on Wordpress. There are plugins to enable you to bring over data in bulk but I'm not sure one exists to do what you want to do. Search wordpress.org
 
Rapscallion said:
Thanks all. Yes, fortunately i do have all of the files sensibly arranged, but unfortunately there are currently 217 files i wish to convert to posts. Surely theres a better way than copying / pasting to each separate post?
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I think there may be some things that you pay for that could help, not something I've ever looked into though. Still 217 files at a couple of minutes per post (less once you know what you're doing, and if there's minimal formatting), get it done in a day or two, or just in bits and pieces overtime, as it doesn't sound like it's a time sensitive thing.
 
Jayst84 said:
I think there may be some things that you pay for that could help, not something I've ever looked into though. Still 217 files at a couple of minutes per post (less once you know what you're doing, and if there's minimal formatting), get it done in a day or two, or just in bits and pieces overtime, as it doesn't sound like it's a time sensitive thing.
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With a (more than..) full time job, family, and more interesting ways to spend the little spare time i have, i would rather find an automated process than stare at a wordpress admin console creating >200 posts for a day! I'm surprised this isn't easier than it is. Theres a desktop client but that doesnt import anything. All the text files are nicely formatted in markdown, the filename is the title, and all can go in a single category.
 
Rapscallion said:
With a (more than..) full time job, family, and more interesting ways to spend the little spare time i have, i would rather find an automated process than stare at a wordpress admin console creating >200 posts for a day! I'm surprised this isn't easier than it is. Theres a desktop client but that doesnt import anything. All the text files are nicely formatted in markdown, the filename is the title, and all can go in a single category.
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Maybe just do a few each day and they'll all be up in a month? Alternatively, this might help:

https://tyler.io/importing-jekyll-posts-into-wordpress/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-markdown/
 
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