# Starting a Blog with Kirby, what's the best way? **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions\ **Tags:** v4\ **Created:** [April 24, 2025, 11:33am UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/starting-a-blog-with-kirby-whats-the-best-way/33993 "2025-04-24T11:33:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![KranzKrone](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.getkirby.com/kranzkrone/32/7601_2.png) [@KranzKrone](https://forum.getkirby.com/u/KranzKrone)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2025, 11:33am UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/starting-a-blog-with-kirby-whats-the-best-way/33993/1 "2025-04-24T11:33:16Z")
Hello fellow Members of the Community, I’m trying to figure out the question, what would be the better way for me as a non developer to start a Blog using Kirby? 🤔 Should I go for the Starterkit, in order to make things easier in the beginning or start from scratch and learn it the maybe harder way while doing so? Anybody out there, on the same non existent level of knowledge like me, have some advice? Thanks in advance for helping me. 😀 ---
**Author:** ![jimbobrjames](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.getkirby.com/jimbobrjames/32/5802_2.png) [@jimbobrjames](https://forum.getkirby.com/u/jimbobrjames)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2025, 3:11pm UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/starting-a-blog-with-kirby-whats-the-best-way/33993/2 "2025-04-24T15:11:13Z")
Welcome back 🙂 I personally would suggest building it out using the Plainkit and working through the blog related pages in the cookbook. [Creating a blog | Kirby CMS](https://getkirby.com/docs/cookbook/content-structure/create-a-blog) Pay attention to the further reading links at the bottom of that page. Those pages descibe how do everything common on a blog. I hope that helps. ---
**Author:** ![texnixe](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.getkirby.com/texnixe/32/5754_2.png) [@texnixe](https://forum.getkirby.com/u/texnixe)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2025, 3:17pm UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/starting-a-blog-with-kirby-whats-the-best-way/33993/3 "2025-04-24T15:17:37Z")
It might also be worthwhile to check if you can find a blog theme you can use as a basis, if you don’t want to start from scratch. > **[Themes](https://getkirby.com/themes)** > > Kirby is the content management system that adapts to any project. Made for developers, designers, creators and clients. ---
**Author:** ![dewey](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.getkirby.com/dewey/32/14892_2.png) [@dewey](https://forum.getkirby.com/u/dewey)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 4:23pm UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/starting-a-blog-with-kirby-whats-the-best-way/33993/4 "2025-04-29T16:23:54Z")
I went through the same journey a while ago and had multiple false starts with Kirby as it was always more work than expected to get a basic blog working (With RSS feed, correct meta tags etc.) as I expected a more turn-key solution. I then went with buying a “blogging” theme from the directory which I’ve used for a while. Recently I realized how much cruft and complexity this actually brought in and it was really hard to understand how everything works or adapt to my needs. As all the templates have to take care of all the options that the user can define if it’s a general purpose template, so it’s quite complex to adapt it to your specific needs. I’ve now went back to the drawing board and started with the Plainkit and lots of Github copilot to implement it from scratch (Prompts like: “This is the final html of a single post, implement it in the post.php template and use Tailwind CSS classes only”). I have to say that worked very well and now I have a super lean system (Just a few files), that is easy to adapt and I know how everything is connected. Very different to the system from before. My conclusion: Build it from scratch, don’t buy a blogging theme (I haven’t found a good one yet) and I’m hoping that maybe in the future there will be an easier way to get started with a blog or an official theme. ---
**Author:** ![KranzKrone](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.getkirby.com/kranzkrone/32/7601_2.png) [@KranzKrone](https://forum.getkirby.com/u/KranzKrone)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 7:32pm UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/starting-a-blog-with-kirby-whats-the-best-way/33993/5 "2025-05-05T19:32:45Z")
Thanks for the Insights of your journey with Kirby, regarding blogging with it so far. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![KranzKrone](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.getkirby.com/kranzkrone/32/7601_2.png) [@KranzKrone](https://forum.getkirby.com/u/KranzKrone)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 7:38pm UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/starting-a-blog-with-kirby-whats-the-best-way/33993/6 "2025-05-05T19:38:48Z")
I really thinking about buying one simple Theme for blogging, just so i can get started with this new experience in blogging using Kirby, while working in the Background(localhost) at a new Theme that i totally up build from scratch. 😉 Should be a viable option, right? 🤔