I’ve moved this site from WordPress to Pelican. Pelican is awesome.

WordPress is written in PHP and uses MySQL to store the data needed to build each page. The good thing about WordPress is that the pages are built as they are requested. The bad thing about WordPress is that the pages are built as they are requested.

The whole database-driven dynamic page thing can slow down a site quite a bit, especially if you’re only using a basic hosting package. If like me you also install a boatload of plugins and themes to test things out the database gets full of cruft adding to more slowdowns. I experimented with various different caching plugins and they seemed to work great for a couple of weeks and then they’d stop updating the content and serve up week-old stale pages. I never found out why.

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