Blogging

Simon B

Active Member

Time of past OR future Camino

Camino Ingles and Camino Frances. VDLP Spring 2019

• Mar 5, 2019

• #1

I am starting the VDLP on 22 March from Seville and want to 'blog' to keep friends and family informed of my progress. I quite happily did a blog in 2016 on the CF but the site I used now seems overly complicated. Can anybody recommend a site that provides free blogs and is simple to use?

 

trecile

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Time of past OR future Camino

Francés, Norte, Salvador, Primitivo, Portuguese

• Mar 5, 2019

• #2

FindPenguins is specially set up for travel blogging and is easy to use.

 

Kitsambler

Jakobsweg Junkie

Time of past OR future Camino

SJPP 2023

• Mar 5, 2019

• #3

I've used Wordpress for ten years; it is quite flexible and you can do more or less with it as you wish. Easy to post from smartphones.

 

Sixwheeler

Active Member

Time of past OR future Camino

2013

• Mar 7, 2019

• #4

I use WordPress from my phone.

 

jmcarp

Veteran Member

Time of past OR future Camino

Camino Frances, 2013
Camino del Norte a Chimayó (USA), 2015
Camino Portugues, 2017

• Mar 7, 2019

• #5

I use Google's Blogger (formerly Blogspot) for my travel blog. It works on Windows desktop and on my iPad and iPhone; however, there is no longer a native app version available from the App Store (I have been told that's due to a dispute between Apple and Google). I therefore use an app called "App for Blogger Blogspot," which works just fine. If you have an Android device you probably won't have a problem. Since I don't have an Android device, I can't recommend a smartphone app for that OS.

 

Margaret Butterworth

Active Member

Time of past OR future Camino

2013 (Pamplona to Burgos)
2014 (Burgos to Villafranca del Bierzo)
2015 (Villafranca to Santiago)
2016 (Le Puy to Conques; SJPP To Pamplona)

• Mar 7, 2019

• #6

I use the app BlogTouch Pro (by Denk Alexandru) with my iPhone 5S which has quite a small screen. I switched to this recently, after the above mentioned dispute caused me problems i.e. I was unable to load photos onto my blog using my old app (App for Blogger Blogspot by An Tu). For a time, I tried Wordpress but I really didn't want to learn a new platform. Nor did I want to pay for any help or for a new domain name. BlogTouch Pro works well for me now, so I have abandoned Wordpress. (Wordpress constantly sends emails trying to persuade me to upgrade to their paid version, which I don't want to do!)

 

tomnorth

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Donating Member

Time of past OR future Camino

Camino Frances: September 24 - October 31 (2015)

• Mar 7, 2019

• #7

In addition to Wordpress, I can recommend Weebly. Their mobile app is excellent. If you only want to blog, I’d give the nod to Wordpress. If you might also want to build a website using an easy, drag and drop interface, then I heartily recommend Weebly.