I’ve used WordPress since I first started my blog, but recently started looking for alternatives. I found myself not needing many of the features provided by WordPress and not wanting to manage Apache, PHP, and MySQL through upgrades, patches, etc. Finally, inspired by the post No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3, I set out to find something new. In my searching I stumbled onto Octopress.

I searched for a tool to help migrate my WordPress blog to Octopress and found a couple different options. I settled on a script from @elvvin that used an XML export from WordPress and created the appropriate Jekyll/Octopress format. With some tweaks I got it to convert my code snippets, images, and post categories. I had to make some minor Markdown fixes to certain posts snippets, but after an hour’s worth of work, everything was cleaned up and ready to go. My changes to @elvvin’s script are on GitHub at wordpress-octopress-migration.

As of this post, my blog is now hosted on Amazon S3.