Are you curious on June 25, 2024 whether to use Notion Sites v2 or Webtrotion? Check this out!
Just take me to the github link:
GitHub - nerdymomocat-templates/webtrotion-astro-notion-cms-website-blog: Your own notion website with astro
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New Features and Changelog
Webtrotion is a simple to install, configurable to $n^{th}$ limit starter built with the Astro framework in conjunction with Notion. Use it to create an easy-to-use blog or website.
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Acknowledgements
This theme is built based off three major contributions:
- Astro Cactus
- notion-astro-blog
- And this person on fiverr who got me 80% there on how to integrate notion into cactus theme
Webtrotion Cat
Why Webtrotion
Webtrotion was built with the simple idea - most notion based builders, require at least one of these four things:
- A custom domain, or being willing to use a vercel like domain
- Just have blogposts be editable in Notion while pages are edited in the repo
- Require some third party tools, or are not free to use.
- Are not configurable because they are either based off third parties like super.so or the configuring requires editing multiple code files.
And I did not want that. We want something that converts well into a static site, can be hosted on github for free using the github.io domain, and can have both pages and blog posts and be configured pretty easily.
Why Notion and Astro
- I use Notion for all my notes, and it did not make sense for me to download them into an md file, carefully figure out the logistics and push/pull with other SSGs like Quartro, Eleventy, Hugo or Jekyll.
- I could have used another CMS but again, I use Notion, and it is easier to keep the content in one place. Notion also comes with interesting affordances that other CMS don’t: WYSIWYG for various components, block level permissions (to add drafts to post text), easy collaboration etc.
- There are some NextJS options that kinda fulfill this criteria but I do not know NextJS and I did not want to figure it out at the moment, for example: Notion Next, Morethan-log, and Notion-Blog-NextJs