blog-redesign

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This page is to keep track (project management) of a 2024 microformats.org blog redesign including moving from WordPress to something based on static files in order to drastically reduce admintax and potential for future vulnerabilities/compromises.

Goals

Preservation:

  • All existing blog posts remain
  • Ideally at their existing permalinks, or at least redirecting from current permalinks to new permalinks
  • Preserve custom inline HTML and styles in blog posts
  • Preserve existing styling and presentation of blog posts and aggregation pages in general

Future:

  • Able to add new blog posts occasionally (this only happens around once a year at this point)

Maintenance:

  • As little dynamic server code as possible to reduce the chances of vulnerabilities

Non-goals

  • Another dynamic CMS that requires frequent software updates
  • Redesigning the look and feel of the blog
  • Preserving WordPress user accounts / identities (ok to replace with another identity system, IndieAuth, GitHub etc.)

Types of pages

Pages (URLs) to preserve:

Options

Static site generator built on GitHub Actions

  • Port the site to some sort of SSG that can be built on GitHub
  • Deploy the static built files to the server

Simple PHP templates

Similar to oauth.net, use simple PHP templating for the pages. (example source file)

Static HTML archive

  • Archive all pages as static HTML, including month pages and tag pages
  • New blog post pages would exist entirely outside of the static archive