From Wordpress to Jekyll

Goodbye WordPress - it’s been great working with you. Hello, Jekyll.

Jekyll is a static site generator: an open-source tool for building simple but powerful websites of pretty much any shape or size. From 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, using Poole as our chosen Jekyll template.

Migrating from WordPress is genuinely painless with the right tools. If you’re technical, Leon Paternoster’s post (dead-link) is a great step-by-step guide.

If coding isn’t your thing, there’s a handy Windows app that does the job quickly: wpXml2Jekyll, available on GitHub.