I finally migrated my blog from Wordpress.com to GitHub pages. I could’ve started with GitHub pages, but I just wanted to get going. And now that things have been going, it’s time to take the next step.

First I had to export my posts from Wordpress. Self-hosted sites allow you to install your own add-ons, like jekyll-exporter but I was using their free tier and went with the built-in exporter.

To convert the export to markdown, I used https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-import. Not all the posts converted perfectly so I went back through to remove in-line HTML and asset linking.

I don’t think I’ll have other pages (About Me, Contact, Porfolio/Resume) for now. The main goal of this is to journal my technical learning and improve my writing, so I’ll worry about those later.