I left the University of Konstanz quite some time ago. Since then, I’m working for the Swiss Federal Railways and part-time as a freelancer. Besides, I decided to go for a .ch-domain and migrate my blog from Wordpress to Jekyll. Why?

No more plugin/update hell
No more database upgrade hell
Just smooth markdown as posts transformed html enriched with simple, easy to adapt CSS

How is the migration working?

Straight forward. First, extract the blog posts, then silver-plate the outcome.

Export and Import

Export blog posts and wiki entries as xml.
Import the posts into jekyll

ruby -rubygems -e 'require "jekyll-import"; JekyllImport::Importers::WordpressDotCom.run({ "source" => "wordpress2.xml" })'

In case of missing gems, install them. In case of something like

ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

occurs, install XCode-Tools and access the license.

Aftermath

Unfortunately, all entries are unsorted and in HTML. Works for Jekyll, but Markdown would be nicer. How to format it?

I found this Website. I know, that this is an rather unscalable way. Since I need only to transform about 20 pages and I want to proof-read them anyhome, I invest the time. A more scable way would be this fine python script (which I didn’t test).

SEO

To make the websites better findable by the search machine of your choice, just follow the instruction listed in here .

Template

I went for Jekyll Now as template and adapted it with Pagination, and a search. Maybe this is worth some follow-up posts, as soon as I migrated the existing content.