I recently migrated my blog from WordPress to Jekyll, a fantastic website generator that’s designed for building minimal, static blogs to be hosted on GitHub Pages. The simplicity of Jekyll’s theming layer and writing workflow is fantastic; however, setting up my website took a lot longer than expected. In this article we’ll walk through the following: the quickest way to set up a Jekyll powered blog; how to avoid common problems with using Jekyll; how to import your content from WordPress, use your own domain name, and blog in your favorite editor; how to theme in Jekyll, with Liquid templating examples; a couple of Jekyll 2.0’s new features, including Sass and CoffeeScript support and collections. Jekyll’s Simple Purpose Tom Preston-Werner created Jekyll to enable people to blog using a simple static HTML website, with all of the content hosted and version-controlled on GitHub. The goal was to eliminate the complexity of other blogging platforms by creating a workflow that allows you to blog like a hacker 1 . Jekyll’s Octocat mascot.
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