{"id":1791,"date":"2019-12-27T18:05:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T23:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitstep.net\/?p=1791"},"modified":"2020-01-30T21:09:17","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T02:09:17","slug":"sunsetting-this-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/blog\/2019\/12\/27\/sunsetting-this-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunsetting this blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I will most likely be sunsetting this blog soon, and moving on to something like a static site generator for any future content. (I&#8217;m currently leaning in the direction of <a href=\"https:\/\/gohugo.io\/\">Hugo<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>I started this blog back in <a href=\"http:\/\/unitstep.net\/blog\/2006\/05\/10\/welcome\/\">May of 2006<\/a> as a place to post my thoughts, and during that time I&#8217;ve accumulated quite a lot of content.  However, the rate of posts has slowed considerably, to only a handful each year, to the point where I don&#8217;t feel it makes sense for me to maintain this WordPress installation anymore.<\/p>\n<p><!-- more --><\/p>\n<p>Additionally, there&#8217;s tons of older content that is no longer accurate, and no longer updated. I don&#8217;t want to have the burden of keeping that inaccurate information up to date.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t decided whether I&#8217;ll archive all the content from this blog, but if I do, I will likely use something like this <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/static-html-output-plugin\/\">WordPress Plugin<\/a> to export all the existing content. This may result in styles and links being broken, but at least the content would remain available as a record of sorts.<\/p>\n<p>My aim for the new site is just to publish stuff occasionally, and for that, it seems like a static site generator is more than enough.  It would also give me the chance to finally redesign this site into something much more simple.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: The new site is now live! Please have a visit at <a href=\"https:\/\/peterchng.com\/\">peterchng.com<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will most likely be sunsetting this blog soon, and moving on to something like a static site generator for any future content. (I&#8217;m currently leaning in the direction of Hugo) I started this blog back in May of 2006 as a place to post my thoughts, and during that time I&#8217;ve accumulated quite a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1791"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1808,"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791\/revisions\/1808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}