Notes

I need to rebuild my site once again. Perhaps with Laravel. But definitely in line with my love of the indieweb

WordPress is incredible. There’s nothing I’d rather build my online home with. 💚

The Internet Archive / Wayback Machine (https://web.archive.org/) is absolutely incredible. It has saved most of my old posts and pages. Been spending a week or so rescuing those posts and bringing them back.

I love Laravel.

I also really like WordPress, for what it is. So when it came to originally putting my personal site together I just wanted to get a simple WordPress site together.

I have attempted to build my own website and blog in Laravel from scratch multiple times over the years. I even stuck with a build for a while but ultimately went back to WordPress.

My issue was only down to the fact that I wanted to write more in my own time and found I spent most my time tinkering.

But I really love Laravel.

So imagine my joy when I came across Statamic. Statamic is a CMS package that can be installed into a Laravel site and just works seamlessly alongside you Laravel code.

I am in the process of rebuilding my personal site and will be getting it live as soon as I can.

I think I will migrate my current site to a new domain, something like “davidpeach.me”, and then use the 4042302 technique to ensure my old posts are still found as I migrate the posts over.

I’m really looking forward to getting creative with Statamic and then layering on all of the excellent Laravel features as a way to learn as much, and refresh my mind, about my favourite framework.

Oh golly I just found the back up of my old website with loads and loads of old posts I thought Id lost. 💚

I’m going to begin setting up my own “labs” area to play around with various web technologies.

For the longest time now I have been holding myself back quite a bit by only really learning technologies around current roles at the time and for my own personal site. This has mainly revolved around Laravel and to a lesser extent WordPress.

Whilst I will continue to love both of those projects, I do want to start pushing myself to learn things that are completely out of my comfort zone.

I will also begin writing more about my learning, discoveries and new things that excite me in web development — something I haven’t done for a long while.

If I start rebuilding my website in Laravel yet again, I really need to see it through and commit to it. If the last couple of weeks have taught me anything it’s that I love working with Laravel.

Let’s see how this goes.

Finally got my site to use the roots wordpress structure. Composer dependency management and deployment with laravel forge. 🤓