Photo Blog Advice For Photo Sharing

[DayTrip]

I permanently closed my Facebook account a few weeks ago and one of the things I am missing most is the ability to share photos from hiking trips with my other hiking friends and family. Creating and posting an album on Facebook was so simple and the unlimited storage for free is a huge plus.

So I figured I'd set up some sort of basic photo blog but am quickly discovering that this is an overwhelming endeavor for my limited tech skills. I manage a pretty simple business site for my job on Wordpress and have very basic Elementor knowledge but little understanding of all the plug ins available. Anyone on here have a blog? I see a lot of people on YouTube but I'm not ready to commit to that level of editing and set up on trail. (I think I actually have a YouTube channel somewhere from years back ) I also am not a fan of the "flow" on YouTube. A blog is really better suited with its post organization and chronological sequencing of trips. I much prefer the simplicity of photos and the ability to include some brief text captions saying where I was. I tried this a few years back on photo hosting sites like Flickr but found the experience lacking for both myself and visitors.

If anyone out there is doing this and has suggestions I'm all ears. Looking for a simple easy to use site and the ability to host my photos on my cloud service to keep myself under the storage requirements of free blog hosts. From what I've read it is possible but the few articles I read were very confusing. Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[Lone Stranger]

If you are already familiar with Wordpress you've pretty much got it. Most cheap hosting services support WP or you can host on WP if you don't have your own domain. If all you want to do is post pics and text you don't have to worry about all the complicated stuff. I stopped posting on my site years ago, but still pay to keep it up because a few people find it useful.

 

[Rhody Seth]

I used to blog as a running log back in the day. I still use it to link to my YouTube videos. It's called blogspot works perfectly fine: https://rootandrocks.blogspot.com/

 

[TechAdmin]

You can share the link with your friends if you have a thread or threads here with some of your images.

 

[DayTrip]

I used to blog as a running log back in the day. I still use it to link to my YouTube videos. It's called blogspot works perfectly fine: https://rootandrocks.blogspot.com/

From an administrative/technical point of view is blogspot "easy"? In particular, do you simply click on a "new post" (or similar option) and all the chronological arrangements happen in the background or do you need to design each page and have to know where to arrange it so it comes up onthe home page as the newest? (Not sure if that even made sense. My current WP theme for work is a template so I edit the existing pages but it doesn't have a blog feature so I'd have to add a page and tell the template where it belongs, i.e. too much work). I'm assuming your knowledge of this is vastly larger than mine.

I'll check it out. Thanks.

 

[DayTrip]

If you are already familiar with Wordpress you've pretty much got it. Most cheap hosting services support WP or you can host on WP if you don't have your own domain. If all you want to do is post pics and text you don't have to worry about all the complicated stuff. I stopped posting on my site years ago, but still pay to keep it up because a few people find it useful.

I am currently looking at Bluehost, which apparently works seamlessly with Wordpress and is the #1 host of Wordpress blogs. First year is pretty cheap but then it goes up. So I guess I can give it a whirl for 12 months and decide if it is worth the effort.

 

[Lone Stranger]

I am currently looking at Bluehost, which apparently works seamlessly with Wordpress and is the #1 host of Wordpress blogs. First year is pretty cheap but then it goes up. So I guess I can give it a whirl for 12 months and decide if it is worth the effort.

Another advantage of WP is it is ubiquitous and the platform includes migration tools. If you want to save money and are willing to do the minimal work involved you can move from host to host each year taking advantage of those discounts. I am too lazy for that, but you sound ambitious

 

[WuzzyMarmot]

Bluehost, Hostgator, Inmotion are all good for cheap wordpress. Not Godaddy.

 

[helmethiker]

I am currently looking at Bluehost, which apparently works seamlessly with Wordpress and is the #1 host of Wordpress blogs. First year is pretty cheap but then it goes up. So I guess I can give it a whirl for 12 months and decide if it is worth the effort.

I see this is not your first pass at looking for facebook alternatives.

https://www.vftt.org/threads/using-a-website-to-post-my-pictures.61498/

If I were more ambitious I would do a web page on alternative bicycle gearing strategies.

 

[TechAdmin]

I setup a gallery.

https://www.vftt.org/media/

You can upload as many pics as you'd like and share them freely.

Please let me know if there are any issues. I did just set it up so some wrinkles may need to be ironed out.

 

[TCD]

What are the allowed file types?