Migrating from Jekyll to WordPress

Funnily enough, there aren’t all that many resources for people who’re moving from Jekyll to WordPress. I took some advice from a post by Fabrizio Regini, but had to modify it a bit, so here’s what I figured out… My starting point was a Jekyll-based site stored on github. Comments were stored using Disqus. As …

To replace PHP you need

(Expanding slightly on my response to this HN thread.) First: to be on all shared hosting everywhere. I.e. you need to be really easy to install, and preferably not involve long-running processes that shared hosts might choke on. Second: to be beginner friendly. No requirement of understanding MVC, or running commands in a shell (hi …

Simplecomic

Another new-ish release, this time a PHP webcomic content management system called simplecomic. Features: Multiple comics per day Schedule posting of comics in advance Masking of comic filenames so scheduled comics can’t be easily found Comic descriptions, alt text, and transcripts Optional chapter divisions for comics “Rants” as a lightweight blog, with scheduled posting Theme …