Steve's Ramblings

Moving from WordPress to Cloudflare Pages

I recently got the WordPress hosting renewal invoice and decided that nearly $400 for three years was a tad to expensive for something I was not actually using.

This was coming - I recently moved a static BasketBall Tourney Pickem results site from the same hosting provider to Cloudflare Pages and it worked out quite well. That was static HTML and not a corporate landing page or a personal blog not something I necessarily wanted to theme or make pretty.

For my personal consulting page, I wanted to extract the blog type items and make it more of a corporate landing page. Luckily other folks want to do the same thing, so I found Hugo Blox - Landing Page which quickly let me standup a very rudementary business landing page.

For my legacy blog items, I went with Eleventy. Which has a ton of themes and other items I can play with.

Both frameworks are supported by Cloudflare Pages and it was easy to setup a couple of GitHub repos, connect them to Cloudflare, and get the DNS switched over.

Exporting from my hosted WordPress was very easy. And thanks to Will Boyd, there is a great tool called wordpress-export-to-markdown that made converting my old WordPress entries into markdown files super easy.

There are a ton of dead links and images. Unfortunatly that is probably just how it is going to be. I may fix things if I find them and if I can, but the internet moves and stuff from 15 or 20 years ago will just be broken. We live in a different world now.