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by marban 1896 days ago
Yes I use wp.com as a dumb backend with a somewhat blank template so SEs won't find it. Then pull all posts via the API, download images, etc. Render them via Jinja and upload them to Netlify.
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Yeah that sounds reasonable. I don’t know if I’ll ever get around to rewriting the templates.

By the way you could just use the images served from WordPress.com I assume… unless the ToS don’t allow that.

wp.com does some hotlinking prevention IIRC so I just download them with Python. Plus, I like hosting assets on my own turf. Peace of mind...