A Morning Run and the Ghost Platform

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Normally I like to go for a run in the afternoon, after I have had a productive morning. This morning I went for a run first. This afternoon I have to go to an indoor meeting, which doesn’t fill me with euphoria. I feel an e-mail would achieve the same thing within a few minutes. Having said this I have skipped that meeting for three or four years so I feel obligated to go this afternoon.

A morning run is not an absurd thing to do. It gets the blood flowing, and gets you to wake up properly, before a coffee has been drunk, and then the rest of the day is open to indoor activities. In theory it could also be a fantastic time to find blogging inspiration. Unfortunately this morning that did not work. I still spent more than an hour trying to think of something to write.

Ghost Migration

Last night I was toying with the idea of migrating to Ghost, to experiment with the Ghost Blogging platform. I was able to get it to work via younohost, but wanted to install it natively on a Pi. It took a while but eventually I got it to work, after some trial and error. The latest version of Ubuntu did not play well with a Pi4 but the LTE version did. I would have continued playing but it was dinner time.

Another challenge I met is that when I tried to export from my current WordPress install with the Ghost plugin it failed more than once. I need to find a way to get the data out. I suspect that a plugin is blocking the export. With more experimentation I will resolve this issue

Hugo and WordPress

WordPress suffers from being everything to everyone, so it has become slow and heavy. Hugo, on the other hand is very fast to load, and quick to update but it requires a workflow that requires running hugo, uploading files and more. Every time I update a post I have to update hundreds of static pages for my blog. By switching to Ghost I would be using a simpler, more specific CMS that is good for simple daily blogging.

And Finally

Going for a morning run, instead of an afternoon run is easy. Migrating from WordPress to Ghost requires jumping through a few hoops so there is a learning curve that I am exploring. It just requires a day or two of experimenting.