Moving your blog from Ghost to Github and Jekyll

Until recently I was hosting this blog in Azure using Ghost, this was using a Web App in Shared mode. Shared mode is not ideal as you need to keep alive your website, and also costs some money.

Clone this blog

The simplest thing to get started is to fork this blog, "startup" branch, and use it as a template. I originally used https://github.com/martin308/martin308.github.com as a basis, but I have added disquss and some other changes.


    git clone https://github.com/juanfranblanco/juanfranblanco.github.io.git -b startup --single-branch

Github setup

Delete the .git folder to detach from the startup repo.
Create a new repository for the website, mine is an user/organisation website so it follows the naming format USERNAME.github.io. More info on Github Pages
Clone your new repository


    git clone https://github.com/username/username.github.io

Copy the "startup" files to your new repo.

Ghost backup and transfer

On Ghost admin interface, go to Labs and export your blog settings and data.
Install and run ruby gem jekyllghostimporter to generate your posts and drafts from your ghost backup. More info on the jekyll ghost importer github page

    gem install jekyll_ghost_importer
    jekyll_ghost_importer GhostBackup.json

Copy the content folder from your ghost site, to the root of your new repository. This contains all your images.

Web site settings

Edit _config.yml


    # Site settings
    title: Your blog title
    description: Your blog description
    baseurl: "" # the subpath of your site, e.g. /blog/
    url: "http://www.myblog.com" # the base hostname & protocol for your site
    twitter_username: twitterusername
    github_username:  githubusername

    # Build settings
    markdown: kramdown

    permalink: /blog/:year/:month/:day/:title/

    google_analytics: UA-0000000-1

    disqus_shortname: disqusshortname

Also _data\footer.yml

Finally CNAME

Last but not least modify the CNAME file to match your blog address, you will need to add CNAME records (or modify your existing one) to point to username.github.io