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Discussion on: What If I Want My Website to Last for 100 Years?

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Ted Bergeron

I think this is a very important topic. I wrote about it a couple years ago tedbergeron.github.io/2016/08/22/P...

I agree with keeping the content as text (Markdown/AsciiDoc) and using a process to convert it to static HTML.

But how do you ensure (pay) it will be hosted a hundred years from now? We have the Internet Archive archive.org/ but maybe we need more that that. Some public commons that is preserving static content forever.

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Pacharapol Withayasakpunt

Markdown with front matter might be one of the best export formats for both human and semantic meaning.

But how do I export WordPress like so?

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Ted Bergeron

Search for "wordpress export to markdown file" and you'll find solutions from WordPress plugins to projects like github.com/lonekorean/wordpress-ex... "Converts a WordPress export XML file into Markdown files. Useful if you want to migrate from WordPress to a static site generator (Gatsby, Hugo, Jekyll, etc.)."