Moved blog to Zola

2021-05-18T06:54:35+00:00

Steps to moving the wordpress blog to Zola, a static site generator(SSG) -

• Exported wordpress posts to export.xml
• Used wordpress-export-to-markdown to convert posts to markdown files.
• Used wordpress-to-zola to convert markdown files to Zola's format.
  • I had to add one fix to the code to handle Page type.
• Created a repo for the blog and pushed all the files.
• Followed the steps mentioned here to setup the blog and then serve the blog locally.
• Deployed on my droplet, ran the zola build command and configured apache to serve the public folder.