Hello again everyone.

After using wordpress for more than 20 years, I finally decided it was time to move off of it. I'm not really happy about the recent turmoil from the upstream wordpress folks, and I didn't think there was too much value over just moving to a static generator as so many have before me.

I did some looking around, and decided to just go with nikola. It uses python and seems pretty well used. It also has a wordpress import plugin which I hoped to use.

The first problem I ran into is that the 'nikola plugin' command didn't work. I couldn't see that I had done anything to break it, and some poking around let me see that this was a bug in 8.3.0 (which is what the current fedora rpm version is), but was fixed in 8.3.1 (released early this year). There is already a PR to update it:

https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python-nikola/pull-request/6

So, I built the new version locally and plugin was back in business.

The wordpress_import plugin worked somewhat, but there were a few issues I hit there too. It tracebacked if I passed '--one-file' to use the new one file format (instead of a content and a metadata file). I looked at it a bit, but couldn't figure out where it was failing. I did have to tweak a bit of the wordpress export, mostly for mistakes that wordpress ignored, like posts with multiple of the same tag on them, etc.

I looked a bit at comments. I have 81 comments on all my posts over the last 21 years, but there are none in the last 5 years. There is a 'static_comments' plugin that lets you serve the old static comments, which looked promising, but it was not very clear to me how to insert it into the theme I picked to use ('hack'). The doc example has jinja2 examples, and just a 'adjust accordingly for mako templates'. I didn't want to spend a bunch of time learning mako templates, so for now I am just going to drop the comments. If I get time or someone wants to help me get static_comments working, let me know.

Builds are quite fast and it's an easy rsync to my main server. Hopefully this all will make me blog a bit more now.

This post will likely cuse aggregators (like fedoraplanet.org) to see all my recent posts again. Sorry about that.