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Importing Drupal blogs to Jekyll

Apr 7, 2019

jekyll drupal import

I had about 5 Drupal blogs that I wanted to export to Jekyll. Most of them were a mix of blog and HTML website, although the biggest one also used Drupal to generate some info pages, like the About page. They ranged from 1-200 posts. Of course, the biggest blog had comments. Obviously, I started with the smallest blogs and worked my way up.

The Great Blog Reorg

Apr 6, 2019

administrivia

For those that care (and I'm sure that there are very few!), as I Jekyll-ize my blogs, I am thinking about their raisons d'être and occasionally making adjustments. One of those adjustments is to move the non-tech stuff from here at MoMD to arghC, and consolidating the tech stuff that was there over to MoMD. So, if you remember there being something here (!!!) that was non-tech-ish that you want to see again, look there.

Jekyll: How to write a Tag

May 13, 2018

jekyll ruby tag custom liquid plugins

Tags and filters are all plugins and I found I could just include my new tag in the exact same file in which I implemented my filter. Read more

Jekyll: How to generate new Tags on the fly

May 13, 2018

jekyll ruby liquid tag custom plugins

My site has many snippets of different languages, and I wanted to tag them for CSS purposes among other possible useful things marking them might make possible. One problem with that is I am still searching out the "correct" labelling, so using mutable tags would be easier to remember as well as change later.... Read more

Jekyll: How to write an Include function

May 12, 2018

jekyll include static site generators software ruby liquid emacs

Getting Jekyll running was a little bit of a kerfuffle since I needed to update Ruby, but then Jekyll couldn't find the right version. Eventually this was resolved and I got Jekyll's out of the box test site up and running. The fact that Jekyll has a test server that runs on your development machine is very convenient, even if it doesn't run server side includes and the like. Read more