So far I’ve made quite a lot of progress with the Octopress/Jekyll migration from Ghost. I had to swap out some tags from markdown to liquid (such as image tags) but I like the ease of adding media. Video for example is a lot easier to add to my posts, because Ruby handles the insertion […]
Migrating to Jekyll
Working on migrating everything over from Ghost to Jekyll using Ocotopress & Github Pages. Man this isn’t easy.
Customizing Ghost
Things may be a tad wonky around here for a bit. I’m working on changing the theme a bit. I’ve already added Disqus integration (which isn’t perfect) but the basics for comments are there now. I want to add a proper menu system, maybe pages, tag cloud, etc. This theme doesn’t include any of that […]
Mobile
It appears Ghost works very well on mobile devices out-of-the-box, which is a very nice feature. Well it doesn’t quite work as well as I’d hoped. In terms of the blog itself it works fine, however if you have any secondary links or pages, there is no way to access them from what I can tell so far. Maybe there is a feature I need to change or theme edit I need to make. Looks like the issue was specific to the particular theme. I may go back and edit it eventually but this one seems to be working fine. Testing on my LG G3 using Chrome 44.0.2403.133.
Finally
I’ve wanted to try Ghost ever since the project went live, yet I was never able to get it running. Frankly I’ve never been able to get anything from NodeJS running, so I’ve always hated the platform. I decided to give it another shot and after some tinkering was able to get it to run! […]