Category: website news
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Blogging for Three Hundred and Sixty Six Days in a Row
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor three hundred and sixty six days I have written a blog post daily. In some cases I wrote two posts, and scheduled the post to appear the next day. This is when I was driving for thirteen hours, or if I knew that my morning was busy. In the process I…
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Git-FTP and Web Development
Reading Time: 3 minutesFrom the way people write about Github you would believe that everything has to pass through it, for anything to work but after some trial and error I found this to be a misconception. I found that with GIT-FTP on Github I could upload and download files to a website after each…
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Using WordPress as a Fediverse Instance
Reading Time: 3 minutesOver a period of a few days I have turned my WordPress blog into a fediverse instance. The process took some trial and error. In the end it was quit easy and there are three steps. Step One: Have a WordPress Instance The first step is to have a WordPress blog/CMS. You…
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Transitioning from WordPress to Hugo
Reading Time: 3 minutesTransitioning from WordPress to Hugo is tempting because I don’t need an entire CMS for what I’m doing. What I need is a centralised system that checks for tags, titles and the theme, and updates the navigation as I add new pages. You don’t need a CMS for that. The Good Old…
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Converting This Blog To Hugo
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn Saturday I converted my blog from WordPress to Hugo as an experiment and it went quite well. I downloaded the xml file and then I converted that xml with blog2md to go from xml to md pages. A page was created for every single blog post. This took a while. I…
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From Instagram Archive to PHP Website
Reading Time: 4 minutesThree years ago I stopped using Instagram because I was tired of seeing influencers and adverts rather than by the people I chose to follow. The cherry on the cake, that pushed me to dump Instagram is when they changed the location of the Post button from the left corner to the…
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A Desire to Dump WordPress
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn theory WordPress is a fantastic tool to write a blog, without needing to learn to code. In practice I am tired of WordPress and I have been tired of WordPress ever since they started to use blocks, and ever since I noticed that it uses React. React and Meta I know…
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Playing With Pelican – A Static Blog Website
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen looking at Codeberg as a European alternative to github I came across mentions of Pelican, a static blog generator. Yesterday I spent several hours setting it up and playing. Whilst playing with it I saw some opportunities. By default Pelican is designed to have one category per blog post. For small…
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One Hundred and Eighty Two Days of Blogging in a Row
Reading Time: 2 minutesWith the decline in the value of social media so the value of blogging has come back up. By blogging, rather than using social media, for at least an hour or two I am forcing myself to think, and to elaborate on ideas that would otherwise go without conclusion. Having a thought…
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Updating Old HTML Webpages
Reading Time: 3 minutesMost websites are simple. They have five to ten pages at most but usually a single page is enough. Most pages are about one specific thing, whether it’s a CV inspired page to find new clients or a simple page with a few products. Most are usually about a single topic. This…