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diff --git a/content/misc/blog_move.rst b/content/misc/blog_move.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bd6bc89 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/misc/blog_move.rst @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +Moving weblog from Jekyll to Pelican +#################################### + +:date: 2014-02-02 8:55 +:slug: blog-move +:tags: jekyll,pelican,blog +:author: copyninja +:summary: Re-creating blog using Pelican + + +Its been a while and I was not actively blogging. I wanted to start +blogging again but I was for some reason not happy with *Jekyll* +static site generator which was powering my previous site. So I took +this chance to explore other static site generators and redesign my +blog. + +I explored a bit of Pelican, Nikola and Frog. I didn't feel +comfortable with *Nikola*. *Frog* is a static site generator written +using `*Racket* <http://racket-lang.org/>`_ and since I'm learning +Scheme using racket I was leaning towards using it but at the last +moment I decided to settle with *Pelican*. The main reason for not +using *Frog* was that I just wanted to get my site up rather than +waiting for me to complete learning racket and use Frog. + +My feeling about Pelican is that its a nice tool and is simple and +gives all basic things like generating RSS/ATOM feeds and nice theming +support. In case of Jekyll I had to write custom page for creating RSS +feed and had pain in creating my first theme (yeah I'm not a +designer). But now things might have changed in Jekyll land but anyway +I don't care anymore. + +New design uses `pelican-bootstrap3 +<https://github.com/DandyDev/pelican-bootstrap3>`_ theme and there is +no comment facility available. If you want to comment or suggesting +things on my post consider writing mail to me :-). + +So what happened to older entries? Moving the old entries from Jekyll +format to Pelican was real PITA so I just renamed my old site to +`blog-archive <http://blog-archive.copyninja.info>`_. So this is a +from scratch site and will contain only new entries. So how do you +like my new blog design? :-) |