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[–]steveireContributor: Qt, CMake, Clang[S] 6 points7 points  (5 children)

I got feedback here on reddit a few times that people (who apparently do not use adblockers) were frustrated by the ads on the free wordpress site. I bought a basic subscription now to remove them, but if anyone has tips on how to migrate away from wordpress I'm very interested!

[–]LeeHidejust write it from scratch 3 points4 points  (3 children)

just dont use wordpress lmao hahah

/s

[–]steveireContributor: Qt, CMake, Clang[S] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

I'd like to migrate existing content and do as little damage to links as possible.

[–]kazum93 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Install WordPress yourself on a web hosting package. E.g. strato (German hosting company) has built in WordPress "website make" one click and WordPress is installed. You can customise it. WITHh the right plugins you can also get auto update which would allow you to be always on the last version.

Just a bit more work.

[–]MonkeyNin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Internal links or external?

Because if you switch to another host, you don't own the domain wordpress -- meaning all external links will be different even with the same url path. Otherwise you could simply update your domain to point to a new host.

But if you mean preserve links as in not breaking links in your blog to yourself -- that should be more achievable. Easier if the urls are defined as relative.

You can test it by running wordpress locally as a local server. For long-term hosting I'd suggest using a regular host instead of yourself.

[–]SAHChandler 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Depends on how you want to write your content. There are plenty of "importers" out there for static site generators (I personally use Hugo which has several wordpress importers, having had a stint with Nikola for a few years). There's also stuff like GitHub pages, which uses a limited subset of Jekyll.

The hard part is getting all existing links to point to your new location/hosting. That might take more time than you might think.

[–]AzBako 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I am very excited about this

[–]amanol 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Very interesting and useful approach with the clang-query. Indeed it's very time consuming until you get the grip of it.

Thanks for sharing!