Converting blog to pure Jekyll
Sep 27, 2014I had originally created this blog using Octopress, but have become disillusioned with the lack of progress in that, and the lack of adoption of nifty new capabilities in Jekyll. So I redid it.
From creating the new jekyll site, moving the posts, converting categories and tags (which took by far the longest time), it was about 4 hours. The majority of it was in place in about an hour, tops. Since OP eschewed tags for just categories, and Jekyll likes both, it was a major piece of editing time grinding through the posts (240 of them!) to get things in the right place. Happy now.
I am keeping the Jekyll-New theme, which you see here, at least until I get the gumption to do some more site design. I like it: it’s clean, it’s pretty, it’s efficient. If I start to see a bunch of sites looking just like it, I may shift. The default OP design is so ugly to me, with it’s dim, grey outlook, I had to change my design. Not so here. Go Jekyllers!!