Last night I spent some time—now that I have it—playing around with the idea of switching back to Jekyll or Hugo for my site. Well, after tinkering with both—and having issues exporting my WP content to .md—as you can see I’ve just decided to keep the current site as it is. So what’s this site running?
WordPress Classic
Yes, I just wanted to try it out. I just want to blog, I don’t need a block-editor. Just the classic editor and the most basic function: posts & pages. So far WP Classic has worked out. It’s bare-bones and I’ve modified it to be even more so. Categories and tags are disabled. It runs an SQLite database integration for easy backups, and that’s it! Comments are even disabled! It’s currently running a theme called Boxstyle with some CSS customizations. It works, but I’ve seen the code—it’s a mess. Maybe one day I will fork it and clean it up.
And yes, I don’t use pretty permalinks—not a fan of having to mess with those when you move to another platform.
Hugo is so much better than Jekyll by the way. But I already moved my content from various sources to WP and the idea of re-formatting it again for either of these platforms as markdown just didn’t appeal to me. I was going to use this theme for Jekyll which I really liked, but maybe I like this one better.