As you may have noticed, the blog has been recently going under some renovation. I was a bit sick of Wordpress so I decided to spend a couple of days migrating it to Wagtail. I also re-did the front-end.

Having spent a good amount of time with Wagtail lately was the key factor for this decision. I have nothing against Wordpress but given the amount of time I spend with Django/Wagtail this felt the right thing to do. 

I appreciate the fact Wordpress offers more control and flexibility to the end-user (especially all the plugins stuff) but being a developer I prefer to restrict things a bit. After all, this is my blog and I'm the only end-user. If in the future I need a certain feature I'm just gonna code it :)

As I said, I have nothing against Wordpress but I felt I didn't wanna keep enduring things such:

• External plugins updates
• Core updates
• Ads in the admin UI
• Overcrowded admin UI in general

I was also getting a weird MySQL error on the server. Apparently due to a lack of resources. I tried to solve it by optimising the database setup but from time to time MySQL would crash because of a RAM issue. I'm stoked with my new stack venv+nginx+uwsgi+PostgreSQL as everything runs smoothly. And I'm using the same virtual machine settings.

Given that I was re-building the whole backend I thought it was a good moment to re-do the the front-end as well. I did a bit of research on existing themes as I didn't have the time nor the energy to do something from scratch. I did find this very simple theme, Strata, which I thought would look great. I did a few style modifications according to my (probably terrible) taste. Thanks heaps to @n33.co for his work!

The code of the blog is public and available https://github.com/jordij/jordijoan.me

There are some other public websites available in the Wagtail repo https://github.com/torchbox/wagtail/wiki/Contributed-apps-and-website-code

If you're keen on using Wagtail have a look at these, hopefully they'll help you get your hands dirty with Wagtail.

Enjoy!