Trying out Pagecord

I blog using Pika but I'm keen to use open source products, and Pagecord seems like a very nice option.

I'm exploring Pagecord to see if it's missing anything. If not, I can try to explore porting my existing blog into here.

I'll copy of some posts so I can get a feel for how it works.

Must have

  • Export ✅ (but: missing tags, timestamps although there are timestamps in the index.hml)
  • Labels/tags ✅
  • Formatting: quotes, links, sections ✅
  • Images ✅ 
  • ...and caption  ✅ 
  • Permanent URLs  ✅ 
  • URL aliases (to preserve existing links I've published) - there is setting a canonical URL so perhaps that's something  
  • RSS ✅

Nice to have (I use, but not essential)

  • Markdown input (e.g., type # and get a H1 etc), but then again blogging by email is pretty great
  • Contact form of some kind ✅
  • Enbiggening of images  ✅ 
  • Analytics support  ✅ 
  • Footnotes
  • Links to sections inside a post
  • Date formatting options: 10 June 2025

Nice to have beyond what I currently have

  • Tables ✅
  • Likes, ping backs or similar ✅
  • Maths 
  • Search, there in the admin interface, and site: search is the other way.
  • Embedding of documents (PDFs)

For another blog...

I also have a shared blog in Hugo, and it'd be nice to have two addresses (or a wild card domain) able to submit a post by email ✅