Move My Old Blog from Paid WordPress to GitHub
To achieve what I described in the title of this blog, I follow this fabulous blog by Chad Baldwin (https://chadbaldwin.net/2021/03/14/how-to-build-a-sql-blog.html). I am super proud of this fellow TSQLer.
For the past several years, I spent about $100 per year to keep my old blog running on Godaddy platform. Since my blog only viewed by a few people, it does not make any sense to keep it that way. GitHub is adopted wildly by tech community and it is a better platform. Plus, it is free. So, here I come.
SELECT Max(value/cost)
FROM sys.blog_platform
--Gitbub
(In case someone is wondering about a best coder way, like export/import. I did not do that. I have about 30 or so posts in my old blog. so, I manually copy/paste everthing. The most none high tech way 😊. )
Q1: How to setup the whole blog site?
Answer1: above mentioned article of Chad Baldwin.
Q2: How to add tags (so that the Blog Archive could have several categories?
Answer2: above mentioned article of Chad Baldwin, in the comment section. briefly speaking: add the following to the beginning of the post
---
tags: Tag_name
---
Q3: how to add pictures
Answer3: above mentioned article of Chad Baldwin, in the comment section. (but I used google result)
Q4: how to add links to down load files
Answer4: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18062553/how-can-i-add-a-downloadable-file-to-my-github-io-page
this is what I did in this page https://hsujoann.github.io/2019/07/17/charlotte-sql-server-user-group-meeting-archive.html
Q5: how to add pages
Answer5: have not tried yet. looks like in the comment session of above page
Q6 & Answer6: for tons of other things. here is the link I found: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/markdown-guide/