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Return to static blog generator

Returning to static blog web pages

Why

I’ve recently switched back from dynamic PHP/database driven CMS (Wordpress) to the static blog generator Hexo.

The CMS stuff is - for me - too oversized and regularly too unsecure.
It needs permanent attention, actually unnecessary infrastructure and is not lightweight enough for me.

For casual blogs a Jekyll-like approach seems to be a perfect solution except for Markdown, for I actually prefer Asciidoc…

I choose Hexo because of simplicity and the node.js base, I’ve recently become familiar with.

Jekyll - also as the preferred source for GitHub pages - feels not comfortable enough, and I don’t really like Ruby ;-)

Migration

Next steps are some creating useful Gists for a MQTT talk in January 2017, then migration of older blog entries.

Stay tuned.

Hexo

Getting started: Hexo

Check documentation for more info.

Quick Start

Create a new post

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$ hexo new "My New Post"

More info: Writing

Run server

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$ hexo server

More info: Server

Generate static files

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$ hexo generate

More info: Generating

Deploy to remote sites

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$ hexo deploy

More info: Deployment