Goodbye Wordpress, hello Github (Jekyll)

Author: diegorusso

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+title: Goodbye Wordpress, hello Github (Jekyll)
+categories:
+- personal
+- english
+tags:
+- blog
+- jekyll
+- wordpress
+---
+
+It has been a while I'm not writing in this blog. I have my reasons but the
+main one is because I've been busy migrating the whole website from
+[Wordpress](https://wordpress.org) to Github (time ago [I also moved my CV on
+Github]({{ site.url }}/2015/03/27/my-cv-on-github/)). To be more precise I
+moved to [Github Pages](https://pages.github.com).
+
+With Github pages you can set up a website for every project you have on Github
+or you can set up a "personal" website (linked to your *username.github.io*
+repository on Github).
+
+The underlying technology is [Jekyll](https://jekyllrb.com) (yes, written in
+Ruby... :-/).
+You need to install it on your computer is you are migrating an existent
+website to Jekyll or if you want to customise your website even more.
+The reasons I move to Github Pages are summed in the following video
+
+{% include video id="2MsN8gpT6jY" provider="youtube" %}
+
+The old website was composed from:
+* digitalocean.com server, which I strongly suggest
+([grab my referral!](https://m.do.co/c/a9ba99ae5c7c))
+* Wordpress installation (theme and software updates)
+* Mysql installation (backups, data restore, schema upgrades, etc...)
+* scripting around maintenance
+
+The overhead for a simple website was simply too much: software updates and
+upgrades, schema migrations, backups, data restores, dying processes,
+dying processes and many other tasks which were time consuming.
+
+The new website is composed from:
+* git repository *(yes, that's right!)* :)
+
+No databases, no schemas, no servers, no passwords, no hacks, no software
+updates, no dying processes, no downtime (well there might be, but Github will
+fix it for me) and **backups are already included!**
+
+So if you already use Github, **wait no more!** Set up your website now!
+
+If you want to migrate your existent website to Jekyll... Well, **good luck!** :)
+Joking apart, the process might not be so straightforward as a lot of things
+need to be ported/configured:
+
+* **posts and pages**: Jekyll is blog aware so you can export to it from the
+majority of blog softwares ([check it here](http://import.jekyllrb.com)).
+Although my blog was on Wordpress **this took me plenty of time** as now always
+the export works as expected. I've used both scripts and manual work to do a
+proper migration
+* **comments**: as there is no database you need to use an external service.
+I've chosen [DISQUS](https://disqus.com)
+* **URLs**: I've mapped as much as I could the old URLs with the new ones
+* **theme**: I went for [Minimal Mistakes](https://mmistakes.github.io/minimal-mistakes/)
+as the documentation is just excellent and I love the clean design!
+* **custom code**: depends how many plug-ins you used in your previous platform,
+you might end up in writing plenty of custom code to keep the same
+functionalities
+
+Well, if you have any question I bet you can find my contact or comment this post
+
+**Blogging with `VIM` and publishing with `git push` is just priceless! :)**