PureBlog
I've just migrated by blog to PureBlog. Is was reasonably straightforward, it just needed a bit og Nginx wrangling and then tidying up my content from my previous blog.
This blog has been through a few iterations:
- Plain HTML + CSS
- Plain HTML + Bootstrap
- PHP
- Plain HTML
- Wordpress
- Pelican
Most recently, it was a no CSS Pelican site. I liked the idea of simplicity, however, publishing a static site was a pain, really. It had just enough friction for me to not bother writing much.
I previously hung out on Fosstodon, and so was aware of Kev's blogs and many projects and thought I'd give this a go. So far pretty neat! I think that one of the things that's struck me about this CMS is how straightforward PHP is. It's been years since I've looked at it and forgotten how good PHP is for web stuff.
To get my prior content up and running, I had to:
- Add in the metadata that PureBlog was expecting
- Rename all markdown files to use the slug
- Manually upload any images to get the correct path
I went through each post separately and make some slight changes. I think that there are quite a few posts with outdated information and links, so will probably need another pass.