Today, I’ve migrated my blog back to a WordPress installation, after having used Jekyll for a while. I really like the command-line approach of Jekyll, but mobile blogging has proved more difficult than expected, and static blog generation needed to be done on my MacBook instead of on the server, which was another reason blogging got more and more difficult and I became more and more silent here. Shared hosting and Jekyll are probably not the perfect fit at the moment.

Preparing the migration of my blog back to WordPress turned out to be slightly more difficult than I had expected. I wanted the blog to remain exactly like it was, including the site design, mobile UI, the URLs and the exact behaviour of everything. I ended in writing my own WordPress theme and plugin for custom image uploads and a Python script to import all my Markdown posts into WordPress.

I will always remain a fan of Jekyll, but I’m happy now that the migration worked and I can happily starting posting again – “blogging is preparing for a comeback”!