Bye bye Wordpress

So... Wordpress has gone to war it seems. Now I don't use WP Engine but moves like the current ones do make me worry about maintenance of Wordpress itself, especially as I run it on my own server. When I consider that along with the fact that there is a constant stream of hacking attempts against my server many of which are attempts to get into the Wordpress installation I had to re-think my use of it.

To make matters worse since we got upgraded to FTTP I ditched my rented VPS and moved all of my IT stuff to here. So my Wordpress runs on a box downstairs and I would rather it did not become a doorway for tinkers to get in and tinker.

Plus the fact that for my little blog a full installation of Wordpress and its associated mysql database, where every page is rendered after the data is fetched from the database server is ratehr wasteful on resources.

Also the theme I used incorporated Google fonts and I then needed a plugin specifically to get rid of those fionts. I would rather not be the reason someone's browser connects to Google for anything.

So here we are. This blog is now handled by Publii which generates static HTML pages with none of the frills and scripts associated with Wordpress. Nothing really against that but it's a very large sledge hammer for a few miserable little blog posts of mine!

I still need to work out exactly what is what here. Publii provides a mechanism that imports a Wordpress site export nicely so what you see here is essentially all that there was. It did help me sort out a few images that I must have missed when I changed to this domain from m0rvb.uk as I spotted errors in the migration when it tried to source those images. Otherwise, the tag cloud has gone and the category list is now a menu item rather than a sidebar. But it makes for a cleaner look I think.

I did want to run Publii on the Mac but it gave errors so it is sitting on my Linux box for now. Something to investigate later.