How do bloggers manage their content?

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I would like to start a personal blog. I think Substack is a good option, but I would like more control over styling (potentially custom components) and want to host the blog on my own website. I wanted to ask what the writing and hosting process is like for people who have a personal website and blog—do you just write markdown and then use a renderer? I would like a kind of wysiwyg editor to see exactly how the content will appear once loaded. The issue with writing in a separate editor is that the line breaks, line lengths, font, etc. never appear how they will actually look.

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To manage your blog content with more control over styling and hosting on your own website, you can consider using a static site generator (SSG) like Jekyll, Hugo, or Gatsby. These tools allow you to write content in Markdown and then generate static HTML files that can be hosted on your website. For a WYSIWYG editing experience, you can explore headless CMS options like Contentful or Ghost, which offer editing interfaces and APIs to fetch content for your site. Alternatively, some SSGs have plugins or integrations that provide a more visual editing experience.

How do bloggers manage their content?

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