Moving from WordPress to a static site generator

Technical documentation for Ed Marsh’s static site implementation

I knew what I wanted (ease-of-use) and didn’t want (“ease of use”) when building a site with static site generators (SSGs).

Structuring, planning, and maintaining your content is critical. Working as writer, content strategist, and developer helped me understand how to orchestrate between the three roles.

I started my information architecture with the existing architecture of my WordPress site. Then I started to put all the content pieces together.

I put myself in every role of building out a website to better understand how content is programmatically consumed and displayed.

I asked AI to do a tech writer’s job and document the code for my site.