{"id":13244,"date":"2019-02-27T17:00:18","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T01:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=13244"},"modified":"2019-12-24T11:15:13","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T19:15:13","slug":"website-not-blogging-ennui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/02\/27\/website-not-blogging-ennui\/","title":{"rendered":"Website (not blogging) Ennui"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not really happy with my website<\/a> \u2014\u00a0I’m tired of WordPress, and ‘view source’ just makes me cringe at all the junk, cruft, and JavaScript bogging down what could and should be relatively simple, clean, HTML\/CSS \u2014 but I don’t know how to reinvigorate it in a way I like.<\/p>\n

I don’t want to entirely stop blogging, nor do I want to lose all the stuff that’s here already, or break existing URLs.<\/p>\n

I’ve been looking into various flat-file or static CMS backends, and though grav<\/a> is the one that most caught my eye, it (as far as I can tell) would mean losing the ability to post through micro.blog<\/a> or any other third-party app that uses the MetaWeblog API<\/a>, which would make spur-of-the-moment posts more difficult.<\/p>\n

Even if I did resign myself to only adding posts through the admin UI (or by FTPing in to manually build the folder\/file structure that grav uses), if I figured out how to import all my past entries from WordPress (this might do it<\/a>), I haven’t been able to find a way to tweak the URL structure, which means I’d probably have to figure out how to generate a huge .htaccess<\/code> file to handle the 5,170 or so redirects so I didn’t break any existing URLs. I may not get linked to a lot, but it happens occasionally<\/a>, and I’d prefer not to 404 those.<\/p>\n

(Plus, as I was playing with grav, I kept getting blank screens where I should have been getting post entry or edit screens, which\u2026well, not sure if that’s a grav issue, a Safari browser issue, or some other issue, but it didn’t bode well.)<\/p>\n

Other backends either looked too complex for my current needs\/skills\/available time (I just don’t have the time or impetus to try to learn Jekyll<\/a>, which kept popping up), or didn’t fully support Markdown<\/a> at all or enough, or had one or another thing that made them feel “not right” for me.<\/p>\n

Really, what I’d kind of like to do is go back to hand-coding my site, so I have full control over the HTML\/CSS (even if it looks like crap, it’ll look like my<\/em> crap\u2026so to speak), only to still be able to blog easily using micro.blog or Ulysses<\/a> or other such tools. Not sure that’s really a possibility, though.<\/p>\n

In the end, this isn’t much more than a bit of whinging and trying to figure out what exactly I’m looking for. But if anyone actually 1) reads this, and 2) has a magical solution for all my woes, I’d be happy to hear it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the end, this isn’t much more than a bit of whinging and trying to figure out what exactly I’m looking for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2040,2043],"tags":[343,1457],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}