Migrate your Posterous blog to Jekyll, host on GitHub Pages

http://alexeymk.com/2012/07/01/moving-to-github-pages-and-jekyll.html

by AlexeyMK • 14 years ago

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binarysoul• 14 years ago

when you migrate, you may want to setup jekyll to handle your redirects (from your old site's url structure)

I wrote about a jekyll plugin that allows just that (used it when I migrated away from tumblr)

http://rawsyntax.com/blog/blogging-on-jekyll-url-redirects/

AlexeyMK• 14 years ago

Thanks! That's a useful solution; the Posterous importer I used added a permalink, IE "/path-to/original-post" in each post's header. Worked reasonably well.

KirinDave• 14 years ago

Not to toot my own horn, but I rather like Hakyll hosting to S3. It's simple, almost unkillable, and the code for Hakyll is quite beautiful.

My site's code is hosted on github for your perusal: https://github.com/KirinDave/public-website

Note the makefile for how its deployed. All the code for site generation is in Main.hs.

kmfrk• 14 years ago

And this is a great content editor interface to extend your Jekyll blog with: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4157321.

TazeTSchnitzel3• 14 years ago

I feel kinda bad about the idea of using GitHub pages for your personal blog. Sure, they allow you to do it, but I feel like GitHub pages should be reserved for project pages, and this is an abuse of sorts.

themckman• 14 years ago

It seems encouraged, to me. They give us jekyll ("a blog-aware, static site generator") and provide a real simple way to host such a static site at <username>.github.com by creating a repo by that name.

TazeTSchnitzel3• 14 years ago

Oh I know it's encouraged, it just feels wrong to use a code hosting site for a personal website, somehow.

Migrate your Posterous blog to Jekyll, host on GitHub Pages

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