When comparing Postagon vs Hexo, the Slant community recommends Hexo for most people. In the question“What are the best solutions for a personal blog?” Hexo is ranked 6th while Postagon is ranked 27th.
Specs
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Pros
Pro WYSIWYG & Markdown editors
You can opt to use the What You See Is What You Get editor or write using Markdown syntax.
Pro Clean interface
Postagon is very minimalist and clean in its design.
Pro Google Analytics support
Postagon has built-in statistics using Google Analytics to help get a better understanding of your visitiors.
Pro RSS support
You can have people subscribe to your blog using RSS.
Pro Fast and easy to use
Pro Deployment is easy and fast
Hexo built sites can be easily deployed to Github pages, Heroku, Openshift (custom cartridge needs to be setup) or any other custom solution (just copy over thepublic
folder). Any deployment is as simple as editing the _config.yml
file and running the hexo deploy
command
Pro Generating a blog is pretty fast
Generating a new blog with Hexo is generally really fast. Hexo truly lives up to it's name as a simple and fast static website generator.
Pro Constantly updated and actively maintained
Hexo's repository in GitHub is very active and it's actively being maintained. Updates are released every two or three months.
Pro Complete and helpful documentation
Hexo's documentation is very thorough and helpful, especially for people who are just starting with it.
Cons
Con No postagon link
redirected link to https://upstract.com/
Con Relatively large community but the majority is non-english speakers
Hexo has a relatively large following and community, especially in China. While this is certainly a positive, many developers who do not know chinese would be unable to follow all the guides and tutorials out there written by their chineses counterparts.