<h1class="post-title">How I migrated to a static blog</h1>
<spanclass="post-date">02 Apr 2016</span>
<p>Until one week ago my blog was hosted at my house, on a raspberrypi with debian + wordpress. I was not satisfied by my setup because given the minimal size of my blog and the really scarce content I post every now and then, a full LLMP stack was overblown.
I decided to change distribution (my server now runs <ahref="http://www.voidlinux.eu/">Void</a>) and to migrate to a static blog without CMS nor PHP.</p>
First of all I installed ruby on my desktop computer, then via ruby gems I installed jekyll:</p>
<p><code>gem install jekyll</code></p>
<p><code>gem install jekyll-gist</code></p>
<p><code>gem install jekyll-paginate</code></p>
<p>I used a <ahref="https://wordpress.org/plugins/jekyll-exporter/">wordpress plugin</a> to copy all my old posts.
Then I cloned from <ahref="https://github.com/poole/hyde">git</a> the Hyde theme which you can see a demo <ahref="http://hyde.getpoole.com/">here</a> and corrected a pair of warning that jekyll printed on my terminal. Actually the <ahref="http://jekyllrb.com/docs">jekyll docs</a> are quite complete and covered all the errors that I encountered.</p>
<p>Jekyll structure is quite simple to understand: in the folder _post/ there are your post in markdown format (remember to delete the examples in that folder);
in the root the are some files that should be modified: the about.md file, the 404 page and index.html that is the frontpage of the blog;
finally _config.yml contains the general configuration for the website and should be adjusted to your own likings.
When Jekyll builds a website it parses all the markdown files and stores them in _site folder. Jekyll uses the html files in _layouts and _includes to render the markdown files.A</p>
<p>I added a simple <ahref="http://francescomecca.eu/archive/">archive page</a> following the little piece of code in <ahref="http://joshualande.com/jekyll-github-pages-poole/">this page</a></p>
<p>so I proceed to remove it because is not needed for my blog.
Finally I put a link to the archive, my github page and the atom feed on the sidebar by simple adding a href on _includes/sidebar.html.</p>
<p>I did not proceed with further modifications but there are tons of possibilities with jekyll. I think that the main advantages are the fact that you don't have to manage html code when writing a new post and that everything can be done via cli.</p>
