@snott Did you get Grav installed?

I just installed it a couple of days ago myself and it seems like a much lighter alternative to WordPress. I do need to actually start using it but struggling with transferring several WordPress sites over first so that I can actually concentrate on setting them up as Grav afterwards ...

@snott I was actually considering Hugo this time around since I wanted to make the server side be less heavy 🙂 From having started blogging way back in the day with a static site generator I wrote myself, I've come full circle and want to do static site generation again so that I don't have to overhead of MySQL (and WordPress) on the server 😛

For nginx, I think I had to add the following line to the config file and that was it:

$uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string

Of course, at the moment, I'm running Grav locally on MAMP. Haven't actually installed on the server yet. But I generally find that the server is easier since local MAMP tends to be really finicky on an M1 Mac ...

I had one WordPress site (that I was going to transfer) working correctly locally and tried to get the second one working and bam! It suddenly stops working ... I just gave up last night ... Have to try again today since I have this week off and want to try and get the new server set up with all static sites (for the moment) and Akkoma on the same server and be done 🙂

@snott Same reasoning generally, as you, for going with Grav 🙂 I considered Hugo but it probably would be harder for my wife to get into. Grav is much more easier to work with and it seems to be very fast and light. At least locally, the Grav site responded much faster than WordPress did. So hoping for good things if I can get it working the same way on the VPS.

@snott Given that I have four sites for the wife and three for me and one of those has posts going back to the late 90's, copy and paste isn't an option I want to tackle 😛

I found several importers for Grav that kind of work but they need some work to make them work right. So I'm hoping to put a static version of the sites by exporting from WP directly on for the time being and then work on the Grav importing to get one of the existing solutions working right. If not, then I guess I'd have to write my own importer ... Don't want to, but hey 😛

At least, that's the plan, but who knows?

@snott Good luck with that and if I can help in any way, lemme know since I'm going through the same processes 🙂