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I've been using wordpress.com, but it renders LaTeX terribly! There must be a blogging platform that does a good job of this. Can someone recommend one?

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jackisquizzical
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    Have you tried the google blogs? And do you need free, or is paid ok? – Sue VanHattum Oct 19 '21 at 16:52
  • Paid is okay (well, within reason! :-) – jackisquizzical Oct 20 '21 at 03:01
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    Jekyll + kramdown + MathJax is the way I've gone for this: https://aung.uk/maths-example/ – cmbuckley Oct 20 '21 at 11:37
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    I’m voting to close this question because it does not appear to be about mathematics education. – Xander Henderson Oct 20 '21 at 13:47
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    @XanderHenderson, long before MESE existed, I was blogging about math and math education. Blogging is a way to share our knowledge, just as youtube videos are. It's definitely worthwhile (for the cause of math education) to know how to represent math well in various online arenas. – Sue VanHattum Oct 20 '21 at 15:41
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    @SueVanHattum I don't disagree with you, but there is nothing in this question which distinguishes it from a question which might be asked on [academia.se] or on [math.se] or an any one of a bunch of other SE sites. Where is the specific, mathematical, educational context? – Xander Henderson Oct 20 '21 at 17:29
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    @XanderHenderson It would also be on-topic on [softwarerecs.se] (or, technically, [wordpress.se]). That doesn't mean it's off-topic here. – wizzwizz4 Oct 20 '21 at 17:33
  • @wizzwizz4 My point is not that it is off-topic here because it is on-topic somewhere else, but that the question lacks enough specificity to be on-topic anywhere. Why are math education people the best people to answer this question, rather than math people, or TeX people, or experts at any one of several other sites on the SE network? – Xander Henderson Oct 20 '21 at 17:43
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    Not because we're the best ones to answer it, but because we want a collection of answers here that will help math educators to do their thing. – Sue VanHattum Oct 20 '21 at 19:03
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    I'm biased, of course, but it's easy to see why it's on topic: Math educators are the most likely to be using math latex on popular un-modified blogging platforms, like wordpress.com. I guess possibly mathematicians, but I expect that this would be considered even more off topic there by the above argument. At least educators and blogging platforms seem to go together....or at least they seems like it to me. And, there are already several useful answers! – jackisquizzical Oct 21 '21 at 13:33

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It is common to use MathJax. This is used on this StackExchange site for LaTeX-like input (not full LaTeX of course). MathJax is available for WordPress via plugins, such as JetPack.

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