Any Advice on Moving From Octopress to Jekyll?
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.
In case you’re curious why I’m making the shift, it’s pretty simple:
- Octopress development seems relatively stalled;
- Octopress includes dependencies I don’t really need;
- I’ve been writing a lot of Jekyll plugins and maintaining them without using them on the latest Jekyll is challenging;
- I’m comfortable writing my own Rake commands; and
- This is the big one: Incremental builds.
I’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.
Webmentions
No webmentions were found.
Comments