{"id":365,"date":"2018-05-22T20:46:09","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T19:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.philroche.net\/?p=365"},"modified":"2018-05-23T17:17:14","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T16:17:14","slug":"migrating-away-from-wordpress-but-not-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.philroche.net\/2018\/05\/22\/migrating-away-from-wordpress-but-not-really\/","title":{"rendered":"Migrating away from WordPress&#8230; but not really"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For as long as I can remember I have hosted this blog on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/\">Dreamhost<\/a> using <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.com\/\">WordPress<\/a>. Last year I migrated to their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/wordpress\/\">Dreampress<\/a> service but for the tiny amounts of traffic it wasn&#8217;t worth it. Well that and the non stop emails about my wordpress install being vulnerable.<\/p>\n<p>The cost and the hassle are what prompted my move away from this set up. I wanted to start serving a\u00a0 static blog using something like <a href=\"https:\/\/gohugo.io\/\">Hugo<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/jekyllrb.com\/\">Jekyll<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/getnikola.com\/\">Nikola<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.getpelican.com\/\">Pelican<\/a>\u00a0but that meant\u00a0 importing all my wordpress posts and which I didn&#8217;t fancy doing so I settled on using a local install of WordPress (on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freenas.org\/\">Freenas<\/a> server) and the excellent <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/simply-static\/\">Simply Static<\/a> plugin to generate a static site from a WordPress install.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-366 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.philroche.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Selection_001.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"579\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wp.philroche.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Selection_001.png 579w, http:\/\/wp.philroche.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Selection_001-300x141.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 579px) 100vw, 579px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The install of WordPress is only accessible on my network so no more vulerability issues. I get all the benefits of WordPress like <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/simple-share-buttons-adder\/\">Social links<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/google-analytics-for-wordpress\/\">Analytics<\/a> plugins with the added bonus of a blazing fast static site.<\/p>\n<p>So far I have been very happy with the set up. If you notice any issues pelase let me know <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/philroche\">@philroche<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For as long as I can remember I have hosted this blog on Dreamhost using WordPress. Last year I migrated to their Dreampress service but for the tiny amounts of traffic it wasn&#8217;t worth it. Well that and the non stop emails about my wordpress install being vulnerable. The cost and the hassle are what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.philroche.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.philroche.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.philroche.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.philroche.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.philroche.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wp.philroche.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367,"href":"http:\/\/wp.philroche.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions\/367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.philroche.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.philroche.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.philroche.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}