From Dotclear to Eleventy

Introduction

I will list here the main steps for migrating my blog from Dotclear to Eleventy. I’ll keep the nice bits of code I used, the problems I encountered and how I solved them, and the caveats I should avoid next time.

Table of content

• Introduction
  Explaining the motivations behind the project and what I intended to do. There’s too much of my life here; you may skip that part.

• Install eleventy
  The easy part of bootstrapping the project with a new repository using Huwindty as the Eleventy starter.

• Migrating the content
  Extract data from the database, generate the markdown pages, copy images and files to the new repo.

• Rebuilding navigation and pages
  Display comments as they should, create pagination, categories, and tags the Eleventy way.

• Other features
  Handle subfooters for recuring related links, drafts and publication workflow, abstracts and search.