This is part 8 of a series on preparing notACMS for open-source release. Part 7 covered building a production theme. The original WordPress to Symfony series covers the migration itself. Search on a static site. No Elasticsearch. No Algolia. No PHP s…
A WordPress site resizes uploaded images automatically. Scheduled posts have a "publish on" date picker in the editor. Both work without any custom code. On a static site, there's no server handling requests and no application layer checkin…
holas.pl scores 100 in Lighthouse's SEO category. What that actually checks: meta title is present, meta description is present, canonical URL is set, links are crawlable, the page is mobile-friendly. These are the minimum requirements — the things t…
holas.pl scores 100 in all four Lighthouse categories on mobile — Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices, and SEO. Mobile is the stricter test: slower simulated CPU, throttled network, tighter scoring thresholds. Getting all four to 100 there mea…
This is part 2 of a series on migrating holas.pl from WordPress to a custom Symfony-based static site generator. Part 1 covers why WordPress had to go. After deciding to leave WordPress, the question was what to replace it with. Hugo, Jekyll, and Ele…
holas.pl ran on WordPress from 2007 to early 2026. Nineteen years. In that time WordPress grew from a straightforward blogging platform into something I barely recognize — and maintaining it had become more work than maintaining the actual content. T…