Migrating this site from wordpress to static html
Intro
This site has been running on wordpress since before 2008'ish.
Far from a bad platform, it just beacme bloated for my use (+ I got tired of the constant updates and attacks) - since this is my year to freedom, I decided to get rid of it!
I had the written the base of wygibtwys (a stupid html compiler) a few years ago, and decided to migrate the site to that.
For the nostalgic, here is a last screenshot of the old homepage!
The contents
Migrating the contents of the old platform is a horrible process, as I basically have to reencode everything.
I will try to migrate as much of the relevant content as possible - but some posts will just be left out!
Results
The update took longer than planned, because as I update the content, I wanted to add some functionalities in wygibtwys.
Both the site and the compiler got better in the process!
- + Total website went from over 200Mb to under 20Mb (mostly the images)
- + Greatly reduced attack surface (no db, no php)
- + Much faster for visitors
- + Much easier to make a new post
- + I use and understand 100% of the code (compared to less than 1% in WordPress
- + I am happy that I can now edit my website with just a terminal
- + Removed Analytics
- - This is probably not for everybody!
- - If I don't have the site's source with me on travel, I can't update the website!
Wordpress is Open Source Software too, so why is this post in the getting free series?
Because now I can worry less about the security of my website: it is secure by design!
Also I don't get any update reminder nor bad login attemps - this change freed my mail a bit: it freed my time: it freed me!
Update 20210829 You can no get: wygibtwys on bitbucket.