I finally took some time to migrate my blog from a (very old) Wordpress to a fairly new Ikiwiki. As I write these lines, the version of Ikiwiki I'm using isn't even released, and it includes two patches made by yours truly (and submitted upstream, of course, as bugs #380680 and #380743), allowing the creation of monthly archives and the possibility of making these archives RSS-less (it doesn't make much sense to have an RSS feed for something that's supposed to be static).
The whole blog is now static, since I haven't investigated the comments system. I will probably enable the comments eventually, and I will of course migrate the existing ones (much like I migrated the existing articles, with a combination of a Perl script and some hand-tuning). In the meantime, I'll enjoy a spamless blog.
The other regression is the lack of a search facility, but from what I can see it was hardly ever used anyway.
Note to readers: old URLs should still work (thanks to Apache's magic
mod_rewrite), but please update your bookmarks and feed readers and
agregators and so on to use the new ones, since I'll probably disable
URLs at some point.
Update: I also hacked a new plugin, linkbar.pm, which appends a static Markdown string to all *.mdwn pages before they are rendered. So you should now see the lovely navigation menu on all pages, including the article pages.
