How AI Eased My Recent Website Migration

I recently detailed my decision to move from WordPress to Ghost. I knew ahead of time that the migration would involve significant time, effort, and cost. I strongly suspected that generative AI could reduce all three.

Was I right?

In today's post, I'll go deeper into the migration. I'll address these questions:

Would Google Gemini prove helpful or not?Would AI's juice ultimately be worth the squeeze?

Let's find out.

Background

I debated whether I wanted to port over every page from the WordPress site. Some just didn't generate much traffic. Case in point: the By the Numbers page.

Old WordPress By the Numbers Page | Click here to view a version of it on the Internet Archive.

Largely for SEO purposes and because I'm a completionist, I decided to give it a shot. The fact that I could easily access today's generative AI tools clinched it for me. Five years ago, I'm not sure that I would have dotted every i and crossed every t on this type of project.

🙃 SEO Silliness
I once counted a Fortune 100 company as a multi-year client. It paid dozens of people like me to contribute thoughts on enterprise IT. After inexplicably terminating the program, the company simply let the website vanish.Process

I started by grabbing the unformatted text from the original By the Numbers page. I then pasted its contents into the Online HTML Editor: