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How to migrate a paid Wordpress.com blog to Ghost, completely free!

Recently I found myself wanting to move a blog I had over on Wordpress.com to Ghost. I figured it would be a fairly simple process, but as is often the case it turned out a little more involved. Not least because I wanted to avoid having to pay almost $300 to be able to do it...!

  • Tim Bennett
    Tim Bennett
13 min read Comments
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Hello, Blog! - An advanced setup of Ghost and Docker made simple (Updated 2018)

Let's set up a Ghost 2.x blog using Docker and Docker Compose, fronted by an nginx reverse proxy. We'll add simple backups, and make it easy to sync a local blog with a live version on the Internet.

  • Tim Bennett
    Tim Bennett
9 min read Comments
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Syncing a Dockerised Ghost blog to DigitalOcean with automated backups

We now have a local and remote Ghost environment ready, but we're missing something- a way to keep them in sync; It's time to add the final piece!

  • Tim Bennett
    Tim Bennett
7 min read Comments
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Deploying Ghost on DigitalOcean with Docker Compose

In the last post (Part 1) we setup a new blog with Ghost and MariaDB, running behind an nginx reverse proxy, and all using Docker containers setup with Docker Compose. Now we will get those containers running on a VPS with DigitalOcean so people can actually see our blog!

  • Tim Bennett
    Tim Bennett
7 min read Comments
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Hello, Blog! - An advanced setup of Ghost and Docker made simple

So you want to setup a nice new blog with a streamlined development workflow? Great, so did I! After spending some time ironing out a setup that works for me, I thought I'd share it.

  • Tim Bennett
    Tim Bennett
6 min read Comments
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