My website looks like it went through a photocopier
After 10 years on WordPress, I'm making a big change.
My website looks like it went through a photocopier launched on October 27, 2018 with 28 votes, #923 of 2,827 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 7 years on.
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Justin Jackson's personal website documents his transition from WordPress to a static site generator after ten years of blogging. The site showcases his writing and explains the practical benefits of his new approach, including easier backups stored locally, in cloud storage, and on GitHub, plus greater long-term accessibility and preservation of his content for the future.
written from the facts on this page · September 2026
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This website turned ten this year. I've been writing on justinjackson.ca since 2008 . For all those years, I've used WordPress. But, recently I decided to switch to a new CMS. For example, by saving my blog posts as text files, or even static HTML, it makes them easier to backup. I can keep copies locally, in Dropbox, and on GitHub. You can't do that (easily) with a WordPress database. Sidenote. This will sound morbid, but I've also been asking "What's going to happen to this site when I die?" At the very least my family might want a backup of my writing. I'd rather not have to leave them a letter that says: "Upon my death, please use phpMyAdmin to view my post data." The…from justinjackson.ca
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