For the last week or so, I have been playing around with Jekyll and GitHub Pages as a possible replacement for my current WordPress site.

It was all very fun, and the simplicity of posting makes it a very attractive alternative.

Unfortunately, I have a lot of Indieweb features on my site (webmentions, micropubs, and postkinds etc.), and everything falls over when I try to implement Indieweb to a static website.

It is possible that I can get some kind of system working after another couple of weeks of tinkering. But I decided to stop instead.

The mood I got while researching Indieweb solutions/plugins for Jekyll is that most people have moved away from it. Either they have given up on Indieweb, or they have moved away from Jekyll.
Even if I were to get my site working now, there’s no guarantee that some future Jekyll update won’t break everything. So do I really want to spend unknown hours converting my existing WordPress site to Jekyll only to have it break a year from now? The answer, for now at least, is no.

If I got the wrong impression of the Jekyll/Indieweb landscape out there, by all means reach out and let me know. I’d love to know how you set up your site.

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