I started publishing a new blog at plkt.io/ with GatsbyJS back in the second half of 2019. I was rather enamoured by the ability to live completely in the terminal and publish a beautiful website, of course also checked into git. Over time, I found the maintenance burden to be too much due to the plethora of JS packages pulled in by Gatsby. I’d hear of vunerabilities and there would be breaking API changes in some of the packaged I used.

I committed to migrating back to a simple installation of WordPress in November 2019 and now I’ve pretty much finished the migration.

Note that there are plenty of tools to get WordPress data into Gatsby (notwithstanding the use of Gatsby as a front-end for WordPress) but not that many for the other way around. Thankfully, the new Block Editor in WordPress pretty much enables cut and paste into the editor with images and code portions migrated 1:1. If you find any problems with the migration, please leave a comment and let me know.

Now that the content is over to the new site, I’ll be slowly moving over the custom Gatsby theme I created. Once that’s done, I’ll strip the remaining JavaScript from the site – leaving it as an option for people that want to leave comments.

Happy migrations!