{"id":2270,"date":"2012-08-25T23:24:19","date_gmt":"2012-08-25T21:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/?p=2270"},"modified":"2014-07-31T22:43:49","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T20:43:49","slug":"building-websites-with-jekyll-github-pages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/building-websites-with-jekyll-github-pages\/","title":{"rendered":"Building websites with Jekyll, Github Pages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/developmentseed.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/27\/build-cms-free-websites\/\">This post has made me very curious<\/a>. They use a different stack:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nJekyll for page templates and static file generation<br \/>\nHTML, CSS, and JavaScript files<br \/>\nGitHub Pages static HTTP server<br \/>\nSupplemented with external APIs where necessary<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess, you can convert WordPress to static HTML. I found <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.alexkent.net\/2011\/03\/archiving-wordpress-to-flat-html\/\">this description.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Looking a little further, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garron.me\/blog\/wordpress-static-site-generator.html\">there&#8217;s this setup<\/a> using <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/really-static\/\">Really Static<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Why static HTML? HTML is secure and faster.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Speed: Any web server, will serve html files a lot faster than PHP generated files.<br \/>\nSecurity: If you are serving just static files, there is no way to hack your site.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.quora.com\/How-do-you-export-a-WordPress-site-to-static-HTML\">Here&#8217;s a thread on the same at Quora<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And using the WordPress static output plugin<\/p>\n<p>Nice to know I could offer a flat static HTML version of this site. <\/p>\n<p>I will have a longer look at <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mojombo\/jekyll\/wiki\">Jekyll<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, one year ago I tweeted about something similar:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet tw-align-left\" width=\"350\">\n<p>&#8220;Your best option is zero lock-in. Static HTML and RSS.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/j.mp\/pa4Rko\">http:\/\/j.mp\/pa4Rko<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \u00e2\u0153\u0081___CollectThisTweet (@nchenga) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nchenga\/status\/91222187406659584\" data-datetime=\"2011-07-13T19:07:18+00:00\">July 13, 2011<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Any experience? Opinions? Further resources to look at? <\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post has made me very curious. They use a different stack: Jekyll for page templates and static file generation HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files GitHub Pages static HTTP server Supplemented with external APIs where necessary I guess, you can convert WordPress to static HTML. I found this description. Looking a little further, there&#8217;s this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,26,9,27],"tags":[604,601,603,602],"class_list":["post-2270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger","category-blogging","category-tech","category-wordpress","tag-faster-websites","tag-jekyll","tag-security","tag-static-html"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1LJxC-AC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}