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.
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.