Yes, sorry, I meant wordpress.com. I have two free blogs hosted there. > On Mar 7, 2015, at 5:20 PM, May <mcdonald....@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm assuming you're talking about wordpress.com and not .org? I don't have > these problems. > > Wordpress.org you can get lots of the things you are looking for except for > you would have to pay for your own domain name. > > May and LD Luna Moon! > www.canadianlynx.ca > >> On Mar 7, 2015, at 5:02 PM, Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> I'm posting this in a couple places, so you may see it twice. >> >> I'm frustrated with Wordpress. Their mobile app is great, but their website >> is annoying with VO on the Mac. They claim to support Markdown, but don't >> return MD text when you go to edit, and suddenly my blog stopped >> interpreting MD for some reason. They also mess with the characters I use, >> replacing a double dash with an em dash and an apostrophe with a single >> quote. I'm in search of a new blogging platform, and here are the things I >> need, and don't need but would like, it to support. >> >> * Markdown support, and this is a must. I need to be able to post with >> Markdown, and, when I edit, to be editing in Markdown. That is, I don't want >> to post initially with Markdown, then get HTML when I go to edit. I know >> HTML, but I hate working in it, especially on iOS. >> * Free. I don't post often, so if there's a post or traffic limit for free >> accounts, that's probably fine. >> * Apps: I need it to be compatible with Mars Edit, unless the web interface >> is truly amazing, and I'd love an iOS app. Wordpress has such an app, and >> while I don't post with it, I love it for getting notified of new comments >> and taking action on them from the app. >> * I don't need, but would like, a good comments system. Readers should be >> able to post with just a name or email address, not need to make an account >> or solve a captcha. Anti-spam for comments is a must, since Wordpress tells >> me it's blocked over two thousand spam comments on my two blog accounts to >> date. >> * Auto-posting new blog posts to my Twitter account would be great, but >> isn't required. >> * A way for people to follow me by RSS is highly desired. >> * The ability to include pictures is good. I haven't yet, but I'd like to. >> Ideally, there would be a way to know where the image would be, how big it >> will end up, and if text will wrap around it. Basically, an accessible way >> to know roughly how the embedded image will look. Not what the image >> contains, but how it impacts the layout of the rest of the post. >> >> So, any ideas? I've heard that Tumblr would be a good choice, but that was >> from a sighted person. I've also been told of Dreamwidth, a site I'd never >> heard of but that one of my Twitter followers really enjoys. I'm not looking >> for community *on the blog site*, as my community comes from comments and >> Twitter more than any website. I do, though, need what I choose to meet the >> above requirements. Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks. >> >> -- >> Have a great day, >> Alex Hall >> mehg...@icloud.com >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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