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 [Void](http://www.voidlinux.eu/)) and to migrate to a static blog without CMS nor PHP.
# Welcome to Jekyll and Hyde
The process of migration was rather painless.
First of all I installed ruby on my desktop computer, then via ruby gems I installed jekyll:
`gem install jekyll`
`gem install jekyll-gist`
`gem install jekyll-paginate`
I used a [wordpress plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/jekyll-exporter/) to copy all my old posts.
Then I cloned from [git](https://github.com/poole/hyde) the Hyde theme which you can see a demo [here](http://hyde.getpoole.com/) and corrected a pair of warning that jekyll printed on my terminal. Actually the [jekyll docs](http://jekyllrb.com/docs) are quite complete and covered all the errors that I encountered.
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
I added a simple [archive page](http://francescomecca.eu/archive/) following the little piece of code in [this page](http://joshualande.com/jekyll-github-pages-poole/)
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.
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.
