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One thing I& #39;ve been wanting to do for a while now is move my site off WordPress and get back to a simple static site. I started on that journey tonight. I exported all posts from WordPress into one massive xml file, and I then wrote two Java apps (1/4)
The first app converts the WordPress export into my new static site format (one directory per post, each containing an index.xml file containing all data about the blog post) (2/4)
The second app is a simple template engine that handles variable replacement, includes directives, etc, so that I can easily break my pages up into smaller chunks of reusable content. This operates over all posts, and also supports pages to create the other & #39;static& #39; pages (3/4)
I know template engines exist and I& #39;ve used many in the past, but I& #39;m enjoying working on small projects every now and then, to challenge myself to tackle new kinds of problems. Last months exploration was building a small and fast http server, for example (4/4)
Still having a blast working on this when time permits, although my attention has turned to my wordpress importer to clean up the incoming data. I& #39;ve also split the templating framework out and created a separate project for my website, so now others can use it too! :-)
One challenge I& #39;m yet to get to is introducing boolean logic into my templating framework to allow for conditional inclusion of things, such as imports or styles / classes. Other than that, it is just cleaning up a bunch of the old site html and ensuring all links work.
I wanted to test relative URLs and realised I needed to spin up a server to test properly. However, as I mentioned in an earlier message in this thread, I just so happened to write a basic HTTP server last month. Changed the wwwroot config and it worked beautifully :-)
