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Kookaburra Blog

Kookaburra Blog is used to present images and words in a chronological feed.

The Elephant​

Inevitably, you will want to compare Backlight's blogging features to WordPress, the world's most popular and prevalent blogging platform, the elephant in the room.

Cutting to the chase, many of the features you have come to expect from WordPress, you will not find in Kookaburra Blog. For example, no comments, no tags, no ecosystem of third-party extensions.

According to Google, as of 2024, the WordPress parent company, Automattic, employs 1733 people in 91 countries, and is valued at $7.5 billion USD. They've also been selling your data to AI companies for years, including access to self-hosted blogs and websites that use their popular Jetpack plugin.

By comparison, we are two guys, in two different countries, building a thing in our spare time that, financially, stopped justifying its own existence several years ago. Do not collect your data, nor do we have any interest in doing so. And we keep working on Backlight because we built it, and we care about it.

Where WordPress is fullsome and bloated, Kookaburra Blog is scrappy and focused; choose the tool that does the things you care about.

The Features​

Like essays, but chronological​

Composing posts with Kookaburra Blog is the same as composing essays with Kookaburra Essay, except that published posts appear chronologically in a feed.

In fact, you can copy-and-paste essays into blogs, or blogs into essays. The toolsets are the same, and the content is interchangeable.

Blogs and Essays offer two different organizational paradigms for your content, and you will likely find that one or the other is more suitable for a given piece of content.

Embed images and image presentations​

Single images, grids of images, image carousels, and more. Again, Kookaburra Blog has all the same composer features as in Kookaburra Essay.

Multiple blogs​

You may create as many individual blogs as you need for your site. For example, create individual feeds for news updates, daily photoblogging, and travels.

Nested blogs​

Here's where Kookaburra Blog gets weird. A "blog" is a post, and that post may be parent to multiple child posts. Those child posts may also have children; and their children may have children. You may nest posts within posts within posts within posts, and so on, maybe forever.

RSS Feeds​

Blogs have RSS feeds, because of course they do.