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<meta property="og:description" content="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 p">
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Caught in the Net
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<h1 class="p-name post-title" itemprop="headline name">How I migrated to a static blog</h1>
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</header><p class="dateline post-date">02 April 2016</p>
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<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.
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I decided to change distribution (my server now runs <a href="http://www.voidlinux.eu/">Void</a>) and to migrate to a static blog without CMS nor PHP.</p>
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<h2>Welcome to Jekyll and Hyde</h2>
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<p>The process of migration was rather painless.
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First of all I installed ruby on my desktop computer, then via ruby gems I installed jekyll:</p>
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<p><code>gem install jekyll</code></p>
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<p><code>gem install jekyll-gist</code></p>
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<p><code>gem install jekyll-paginate</code></p>
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<p>I used a <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/jekyll-exporter/">wordpress plugin</a> to copy all my old posts.
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Then I cloned from <a href="https://github.com/poole/hyde">git</a> the Hyde theme which you can see a demo <a href="http://hyde.getpoole.com/">here</a> and corrected a pair of warning that jekyll printed on my terminal. Actually the <a href="http://jekyllrb.com/docs">jekyll docs</a> are quite complete and covered all the errors that I encountered.</p>
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<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);
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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;
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finally _config.yml contains the general configuration for the website and should be adjusted to your own likings.
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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>
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<p>I added a simple <a href="http://francescomecca.eu/archive/">archive page</a> following the little piece of code in <a href="http://joshualande.com/jekyll-github-pages-poole/">this page</a>
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{% raw %}
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layout: page
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title: Archive
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<pre class="code literal-block"><span></span><span class="x">## Blog Posts</span>
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<span class="cp">{%</span> <span class="k">for</span> <span class="nv">post</span> <span class="k">in</span> <span class="nv">site.posts</span> <span class="cp">%}</span><span class="x"></span>
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<span class="x"> * </span><span class="cp">{{</span> <span class="nv">post.date</span> <span class="o">|</span> <span class="nf">date_to_string</span> <span class="cp">}}</span><span class="x"> &raquo; [ </span><span class="cp">{{</span> <span class="nv">post.title</span> <span class="cp">}}</span><span class="x"> ](</span><span class="cp">{{</span> <span class="nv">post.url</span> <span class="cp">}}</span><span class="x">)</span>
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<span class="cp">{%</span> <span class="k">endfor</span> <span class="cp">%}</span><span class="x">:wq</span>
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<p>{% endraw %}
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I noticed that in _includes/head.html there is this line:</p>
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<pre class="code literal-block"><span></span><link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:400,300,700,800,600' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'
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</pre>
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<p>so I proceed to remove it because is not needed for my blog.
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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>
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<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>
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<p>Francesco Mecca</p>
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<li><a class="tag p-category" href="../../../../../categories/static-blog/" rel="tag">static blog</a></li>
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