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            <p>Now how did I miss <a href="http://docs.getpelican.com/">Pelican</a> in my quest for the perfect static blog generator? Maybe because it's not perfect either but &nbsp;certainly deserves to be ranked alongside <a href="https://jekyllrb.com/">Jekyll</a> and <a href="https://github.com/laktek/punch/">Punch</a>. Since it's written in Python, which means my religious beliefs are not offended.</p>
            <p>When trying to import my blog into one of the static generators, the output from <a href="https://ben.balter.com/">WP to jekyll exporter</a> has always been the input. So that same thing was tried with Pelican but it didn't work out too well. The issue seemed trivial however. &nbsp;Pelican doesn't like the YAML front matter block in each post. Before trying to create a regext to eliminate it, &nbsp;I looked around for options and was quite pleased to find that pelican can <a href="http://docs.getpelican.com/en/3.1.1/importer.html">import directly from Wordpress</a> as long as you have something called <a href="http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/index.html">pandoc</a> installed. Absolutely kicking myself for not knowing about pandoc till now. It looks like a really useful tool.</p>
            <p>However the importer had it's fair share of problems producing errors like these:</p>
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2013 Feb 13 at 04:59 » Tagged as :markdown, pelican, warrants, restructuredtext,