Lev Lazinskiy

Migration to Ghost and Other Goodies

I recently migrated Tralev from Wordpress to Ghost. I have always been a fan of Ghost, but one day while looking around for a new theme for this blog, I came across the wonderful Hit the Road theme in the Ghost Marketplace which prompted the switch.

I could not be happier with this theme. It has a lot of neat features like showing the weather in various cities, and maps for various locations. It feels like a lot of love and thought was put into this theme. In addition, I was super impressed with the developer because I reported a bug with the Yahoo Weather integration and he shipped me the fix within two hours.

The migration was a bit painful, since there are a ton of images on this blog. But after two weeks, I am happy to say that the entire blog has been officially moved over. One major downside to wordpress is that by default there is no great way to sanely manage a large number of photos and videos. This is also true in ghost, so during the migration I set up Flickr and Vimeo which allows for easier categorization of content.

I signed up for the hosted option, and am happy to both support the Ghost team and no longer worry about running my own server so I can focus on editing photos and writing about my travels.

In addition to moving over to Ghost, we now have a web presence in other places as well. I finally set up a dedicated Twitter account for Travel so I no longer have to spam my followers who may not care about my posts. We also now have Facebook, and as mentioned above, Flickr and Vimeo.

• Twitter
• Facebook
• Flickr
• Vimeo