dreamhost provides the WordPress tool, but they also just provide
regular ftp for uploading.
Is there something in particular that WordPress offers over your
current setup?
It has some nice web-facing tools for administering the site and
tracking drafts, but it sounds like you already have a process that
works for you, and if the admin interface doesn't work in Lynx,
then I'd strongly bias toward a different web solution.
The `wp-cli` tool is pretty complex and tends to assume a strong
pre-existing working knowledge of WordPress. So even if you go
that route, there's a large learning curve ahead that way.
desire a tool, and since WordPress is offered, thought I would ask.
I don't want to deter you from tackling the adventure since there's
certainly a lot of *power* with WordPress, and I'm always an advocate
for learning new skills. But if they're not directly solving a
problem you have, and you don't aspire to get into WordPress
development more full-time (or just to do it because you want to),
then I'd suggest there are easier ways to the same/similar end
without sparring with Wordpress.
any easy creation tool that is not WordPress then?
If you want to have templates that apply across the site, using a
static site generator can make that easier for you. It allows you
to type up your posts (whether in raw HTML which it sounds like
you're comfortable with, or using Markdown which can be a little
easier for some folks), and then the SSG churns across all those
input post files and creates an output directory you can upload as
you're already familiar with. And most come with a selection of
templates (plus additional ones you can download) so you can change
the whole site by just changing templates and telling the SSG to
regenerate the site. I've done this more than once (changing
templates) and it's usually a matter of changing one line of
configuration to point to the new theme, and then letting it
regenerate (depending on the number of pages, this is a couple
seconds or maybe a minute)
-tim