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I've been wanting to migrate my (self-hosted) WordPress sites to something that generates static pages (based off of my own templates). I likely won't ever do i

I've been wanting to migrate my (self-hosted) WordPress sites to something that generates static pages (based off of my own templates). I likely won't ever do it, though, simply due to the time required to convert the hundreds of posts/articles I've previously written. IIRC, Medium has an API which should make moving to a different platform easier, should one choose to do that in the future. One would certainly feel less "locked in" and be more willing to try such a platform if the cost of moving was so low.

fowkswe 11y ago
I've made some Rails ActiveRecord models that to talk to the Wordpress database. Using them and the page caching gem / feature, you can get the static page effect you are looking for. Additionally, you can have all the Rails goodies (Haml, Sass, Coffeescript, layouts/partials, etc) for use in your Wordpress development needs along with the Wordpress authoring tools. I have it working in my project, and took a half assed attempt to turn it into a gem. This is waaay premature, and missing lots of the stuff I have flushed out in my project (post_content formatting, short code completion, categories, tags, etc): https://github.com/fowkswe/pressar https://github.com/fowkswe/pressar If anyone is interested, I'd be willing to fold the other functionality in and get the 'gem install' working.