We thought of sharing learnings we had after moving from wordpress to writing in plain markdown under the stack of NextJS and Tailwind CSS.
Even though am loving the experience but there are few sacrifices and time spend to troubleshoot on initial time.
Let us share what we have learned.
1. Table in Markdown
Not an easy time to figure out this. Even though we use this free website service to convert https://www.tablesgenerator.com/. It tooks sometime to figure out
So the table generator markdown converter doesn’t work for us. But the HTML table converter worked
https://www.tablesgenerator.com/html_tables
Here is a sample code that worked for us. Additional things we added
- To make the table looks bit nicer is “table className=“text-lg""
- The default HTML code which comes from the HTML generations had ”< br >” code, whenever we had that, the table didn’t show up. so in visual studio, we did a find/replace the br with empty.
| Criteria to look in | Medium | Wordpress | Substack |
|---|---|---|---|
| Write from mobile | Yes | Yes | |
| Cost to write? | Free | Free | Free |
| Easy to use out of 10 (low means has a learning curve) | 7 | 5 | 9.5 |
| Free newsletter when you release new post | Okay level | Yes, Represented very well | |
| Platform does co marketing (Recommending to other readers) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| But do they have a big reach? | Yes (tech audience) | Old Audience like journalist, traditional writers, etc | New generations writers from history to strategy on multiple front |