As I continue migrating from WordPress to Astro, I am rebuilding key plugin features without third-party dependencies. In this post, I will show how I replaced syntax highlighting, recent post widgets, and external link management using Astro’s flexible ecosystem.

Moving from WordPress to Astro meant rethinking how I implemented various features that were previously handled by plugins. In this post, I explain how I replaced key WordPress plugin functionalities in Astro, including acronyms, metadata, and tag clouds.

After 15 years of blogging with WordPress, I decided to take the plunge and migrate my blog to Astro. This post outlines how I moved my content, step by step, and the tools I used to make the transition.

For years, WordPress was my go-to platform for blogging, but it was time for a change—one that aligns better with my values, both environmentally and financially. In this post, I share the reasons behind my decision to move to an Astro app deployed on Azure Static Web Apps.

This weekend I was speaking at WordCamp Nijmegen about the possibilities of hosting a WordPress site using Microsoft Azure. I’m sharing my Dutch slides here, and soon I hope to add the recording for WordPress TV in this post as well.

After having major, and unsolvable, problems with MovableType (MovableType was causing segfaults in Perl) for over half a year I finally switched to WordPress for hosting my blog.