A while back I mentioned my desire to move this site from Octopress to Jekyll. I liked Octopress when I re-christened this site, but I didn’t really see much benefit to moving to Octopress 3 over stripping away the Octopress 2 bits and going with a core Jekyll install.
","content_html":"A while back I mentioned my desire to move this site from Octopress to Jekyll. I liked Octopress when I re-christened this site, but I didn’t really see much benefit to moving to Octopress 3 over stripping away the Octopress 2 bits and going with a core Jekyll install.
\nOctopress was built on top of Jekyll, so I figured the move would be fairly easy. On the whole, it was. I was able to move the content over without too much difficulty. I ended up having to back out some of the Octopress plugins and either write the functionality myself or look for alternatives. Thankfully none were a terribly big deal.
\nThe only major change was to the overall structure of the site. I opted to move my blog and linkblog into Jekyll collections, which worked out pretty well. I opted to go with the newer jekyll-paginate-v2 gem to build out the archive pages for each and used jekyll-tagging to generate the tag archive pages. In the process, I also moved all of my post “categories” over to being “tags”, since that was more appropriate to how I was using them anyway.
It took a few days to get it to the point where I feel I can merge the Jekyll-only branch back and publish for the first time, but I think it is pretty stable. That said, there are likely some bugs yet to be discovered. Please let me know if you find one; more sets of eyes are always better.
\n","url":"https://www.aaron-gustafson.com/notebook/moved-from-octopress-to-jekyll/","tags":["this site","Octopress","Jekyll"],"date_published":"2017-03-23T18:43:26Z"},{"id":"https://www.aaron-gustafson.com/notebook/any-advice-on-moving-from-octopress-to-jekyll/","title":"✍🏻 Any Advice on Moving From Octopress to Jekyll?","summary":"Next Tuesday I’m planning to take the day to do a little refresh on this site. The largest part of that effort will be moving this project off of Octopress to Jekyll. I’m not expecting it to be a huge challenge—Jekyll underpins Octopress anyway—but I’m sure there are some gotchas I should look out for. If you’ve made the leap yourself in the past and have any advice or recommended reading, please leave a comment or Web Mention.
","content_html":"Next Tuesday I’m planning to take the day to do a little refresh on this site. The largest part of that effort will be moving this project off of Octopress to Jekyll. I’m not expecting it to be a huge challenge—Jekyll underpins Octopress anyway—but I’m sure there are some gotchas I should look out for. If you’ve made the leap yourself in the past and have any advice or recommended reading, please leave a comment or Web Mention.
\nIn case you’re curious why I’m making the shift, it’s pretty simple:
\nI’m hopeful this shift will make it easier for me to get content published more quickly and more reliably. I may even move my build processes into Travis CI to further offload the work. But I’m getting ahead of myself… let’s see how Tuesday goes first.
\n","social_text":"I’m moving from @octopress to @jekyllrb on Tuesday. Any advice or recommended reading?","url":"https://www.aaron-gustafson.com/notebook/any-advice-on-moving-from-octopress-to-jekyll/","tags":["this site","Jekyll","Octopress"],"date_published":"2017-01-21T16:55:37Z"},{"id":"https://www.aaron-gustafson.com/notebook/crossposting-to-medium-from-jekyll/","title":"✍🏻 Crossposting to Medium from Jekyll","summary":"Last week, Jeremy Keith posted about syndicating his content to Medium using their new API.
","content_html":"Last week, Jeremy Keith posted about syndicating his content to Medium using their new API. Before they added the API, there was no way to automatically publishing to Medium from your own blog. And doing it manually was quite tedious.
\nJeremy posted in detail about how to set it all up and provided the PHP code he’s using to make it all work. As I’m running a static site on Octopress, I ported it to Ruby as a Jekyll Generator. I’ve posted it to Github, so you can grab it there if you so desire.
\n","url":"https://www.aaron-gustafson.com/notebook/crossposting-to-medium-from-jekyll/","tags":["Jekyll","Octopress","blogging","indie web"],"date_published":"2015-10-26T19:27:00Z"}]}