Switched from Wordpress to Jekyll

After years of putting off blogging due to a lack of satisfaction with my blogging platform (Wordpress), I have finally found a solution that I’m happy with. Out with Wordpress, in with Jekyll.

CMS’es and blogging engines are a pain if you’re a programmer/web developer. With Wordpress, you type your my posts inside a browser, which is terrible since you don’t get the power of a real text editor, while risking losing all your work if click the back button. I also had to upload pictures and documents using a web wizard which created folders all over the place and without any structure.

Another major problem is the constant Wordpress security updates… about once a month, which is completely ridiculous for something as simple as a blog.

Anyways, I’ve now switched to a static content generation solution, where I write posts in my text editor and version control with Git. After compiling the site to HTML, I then run a Rake script that rsyncs the generated folder to my server. No PHP, no security issues. Perfection!