Export blog

Mataroa allows you to export your blog posts into a zip archive that you can directly use to self-host your website. We support five options:

Markdown: all blog posts as .md files, zip archived
Book: all blog posts as chapters in an .epub book
Print: render all blog posts in one page
Zola: simple static site generator that we like
Hugo: very popular and reliable static site generators

Redirect

If you're retiring your mataroa blog, we can also redirect to your new domain. You can configure this in the bottom field of your blog settings.

Markdown

Markdown format export in a zip archive.

Book

Book export in an epub format, with blog posts as chapters, a table of contents, and author page.

Print

Renders all blog posts in one page. Useful for exporting the blog into PDF, or printing in dead trees form, or anything else that might require bulk copying.

Zola

Zola is a static site generator similar to Hugo.

To install Zola see here. To use after downloading the zip archive:

cd into the directory
run zola serve
go to http://127.0.0.1:1111 in your browser

Ready!

You can also host it for free on a number of platforms. There are how-to guides on getzola.org for Netlify, GitHub Pages, GitLab Pages, Vercel, Cloudflare Pages, and one can also use sourcehut pages.

Hugo

Hugo is a very popular and reliable open source static site generator.

To install Hugo see here. To use after downloading the zip archive:

cd into the directory
run hugo server
go to http://127.0.0.1:1313 in your browser

Ready!

You can also host it for free on a number of platforms. There in a large numner of guides on gohugo.io including Netlify, GitHub, GitLab, Render, and many others.