From Wordpress to Jekyll

Goodbye WordPress. It’s been great working with you! Hello, Jekyll. Jekyll is a static site generator and an open-source tool for creating simple yet powerful websites of all shapes and sizes. To quote the project’s readme:

Jekyll is a simple, blog aware, static site generator. It takes a template directory […] and spits out a complete, static website suitable for serving with Apache or your favorite web server. This is also the engine behind GitHub Pages, which you can use to host your project’s page or blog right here from GitHub

GitHub you say? Sounds good to me.

We’re now up and running on GitHub, with Poole as our chosen template for Jekyll.

Migrating from WordPress is a breeze with some of the helpful apps available for this exact purpose. Interested? Check out this great post by leon Paternoster for a detailed guide.

If you’re less familiar with coding, there’s a handy Windows app that does the job in a flash:wpXml2Jekyll. You can grab it on GitHub.