Has anyone moved from Wordpress to Jekyll? Did you use a tool to export the posts? I have so far tried the WP Plugin which gives you a dump of all your stuff - but the images are linked to the Jetpack based WP.com CDN and posts contain a whole bunch of HTML which looks like a sizeable amount of time to clean up. Was wondering if there are other better alternatives out there. Thanks.

Hey Saurabh, I have used this open source library to move things from WP to markdown. I think it also has support for Jekyll.

Thanks @calm-grass-85557 That looks great. Going to give it a shot!

I've moved it to hugo https://sathyasays.com/2020/08/28/migrating-moving-your-wordpress-blog-to-hugo/

Thanks. Yes. I disabled Jetpack after I saw all the CDN stuff being exported. 😊 As of now, I am planning to migrate only a handful of my posts that I am not embarrassed about. So that helps — because the official importer does a good job with categories & tags — but poorly on HTML -> Markdown. Abhishek’s tool does a great job on HTML -> Markdown - so I am using a mixture of both 😕 Halfway there.

@loud-glass-33663 Side note - I would recommend Hugo over Jekyll if all you want is a plain static site generator. Hugo has all the features of Jekyll but is way faster.

Thanks @rough-autumn-89795 - by faster do you mean the compile time / build time right? I went ahead with Jekyll this time primarily because I felt it would probably have the largest community, support & themes. Have had a good experience so far. I was also able to setup a quick pipeline -> GitHub -> AWS Amplify in less than 10 mins (including reading time) which I am amazed by.

@loud-glass-33663 Yes, build time. Not sure how both stand in term of community & support now. Jekyll is older, but then people started shifting to Hugo sometime in 16/17 because Jekyll was slower on large sites. If you have a small site, this shouldn’t matter, so you are good. JamStack ecosystem is amaze. Netlify, Amplify, Now - all of them make deployments way too easy. 😄

Woah. That is quite impressive. Good to know - makes the decision easier if you are working on a larger project. For me, my site is under 20 pages for now - so all good. Thanks for all your help so far folks. Appreciate it. (My first SSG project).