So OctoPress was fine and all.. and I like that it was all in markdown (which makes it nice when doing tech-heavy posts with code blocks). But I also almost never posted once I moved to Octopress. Too much hassle, all from text files and command line, followed by deploys.
I'm giving Ghost a try. So far liking how simple it is, but that it has a web-based interface for adding / editing posts. Oh and did I mention markdown. =)
Fortunately I was able to migrate over all of my Octopress posts (and comments!), and keep the same URLs and everything. Here is roughly what I did:
- Signed up for a ghost account and got it set up locally
- Ran this nifty export tool from my octopress
/source/_postdirectory - Started up the ghost server locally, and went to /ghost and imported the JSON file under the "Labs" UI (this is running 0.7.0)
- To get Disqus comments, I ensured my URL format was the same, by editing my permalink structure in Ghost settings table
- Then followed this: https://help.disqus.com/customer/portal/articles/1454924-ghost-installation-instructions
- If your URLs don't entirely match, you can check out tips on this migration blog post that may work for you