![]() The web interface for Squarespace 5 was unsurprisingly outdated being over 10 years old. Unfortunately Squarespace removed this functionality in later versions of their platform citing that their own apps were better for maintaining the site. Squarespace 5 supported XMLRPC which allowed me to utilise the excellent Mac blogging application MarsEdit. Nowhere near as much effort as this migration took, but certainly more than I felt was acceptable. This meant it would have been a lot of effort to migrate. ThoughtAsylum was far from being a simple site in Squarespace migration terms. Squarespace had a migration path to upgrade sites from version 5 to version 6, and beyond, but they were suitable only for simple sites. This area actually covers a multitude of things, but previously this site was to an extent ‘stuck’ on an old version of the Squarespace content management system ( CMS. Squarespace was no longer fit for purpose There are many reasons for updating the site, but they probably break down into a couple of main categories. I’ll come back to discuss many of these points in detail below. There’s no option for scheduling blog posts.There are no more comments on blog posts.The search is now utilising an external search engine rather than something on the platform.The look and feel of the site has been refreshed.The format of the site has changed to make it responsive, so that it is now much easier to use on mobile devices.The content was originally written in HTML, but is now predominantly converted to Markdown, HTML only being utilised where Markdown has proven insufficient.The site is now being hosted on GitHub Pages. The content was previously being hosted on a Squarespace system.While the content is the same as it was before at the level it is shown to you the reader, pretty much everything else has changed. In this post I’m going to give a little bit of background to the what, why and how. It isn’t just a makeover, it’s actually a rebuild from the ground-up. If you have visited much in the past, you may have noticed a change recently. ![]()
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