Jekyll + GitHub Pages: looking for the perfect blog platform
[ jekyll github-pages markdown ]I don’t remember when I started blogging. Probably 10-12 years ago. I used several online systems. Last one was Wordpress. It has several cons.:
- It’s not easy to switch/jump from wordpress.com to another hosting.
- It’s not easy to backup all posts/content as a set of source files/records.
- There are some limitations of layout and visual editor.
- It puts some ads right into my content. Generally, it’s a cost of free hosting/service, but I don’t like it anyway.
I don’t need a lot of features, just regular posts publishing with SEO. Jekyll, Gatsby or Hugo provides static blogging cases out of the box. As GitHub Pages already provides Jekyll as a service, and even for free, so, it looks like the best way.
I found simple theme and compose Jekyll project based on it. Jekyll is the system to create and maintain static web sites. It’s implemented by ruby and has a lot of plugins as ruby gems. Text content is composed and saved in source files. I use markdown format. There is powerful styles and layout systems. Transform your plain text into static websites and blogs:
- Markdown for content
- YAML for data
- Liquid for templating