PBS Tidbit 18 — A Real-World Jekyll Example

About this episode

Bart shares his experience migrating his Let's Talk website from WordPress to Jekyll, discussing successes and challenges.

Bart taught us about creating static sites with Jekyll and even how to create custom layouts using Bootstrap 5. We learned about Markdown files with YAML front matter and more. In this Tidbit, Bart walks us through how he used everything he learned and taught us to migrate his Let's Talk website from WordPress to Jekyll hosted on GitHub Pages. It's a fun episode because we learn what worked well, what slipped through the cracks, and what he forgot to do. He built up a lot of technical debt on Let's Talk with his Let's Talk Apple and Let's Talk Photography podcast posts, so he highly encourages you to fork the site and create pull requests to help him clean up the older posts. You can see how many posts need cleanup (mostly adding contributors) at lets-talk.ie/temp-episodes-to-review.html You can find Bart's fabulous tutorial shownotes and the audio podcast at pbs.bartificer.net . Join the Conversation: allison@podfeet.com podfeet.com/slack Support the Show: Patreon Donation Apple Pay or Credit Card one-time donation PayPal one-time donation Podfeet Podcasts Mugs at Zazzle NosillaCast 20th Anniversary Shirts Referral Links: Setapp - 1 month free for you and me Wispr Flow - 1 month…

People in this episode

Hosts: Bart Busschots, Allison Sheridan

Topics covered

• Jekyll
• static sites
• migration
• technical debt
• GitHub Pages
• WordPress

Keywords

• Jekyll
• static site generator
• WordPress migration
• GitHub Pages
• technical debt
• Bootstrap 5
• Markdown
• YAML front matter

Sponsors

Patreon, PayPal, Zazzle, Setapp, Wispr Flow, PETLIBRO, Parallels Toolbox, MacSparky Field Guides, Backblaze, Eufy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: GitHub Pages, WordPress

Books & works: Let's Talk, Let's Talk Apple, Let's Talk Photography

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