# Mijn oude custom-built trail-journal/blog gemigreerd naar Discourse

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrated-my-old-custom-built-trail-journal-blog-to-discourse/370935
**Category:** Migration
**Created:** [19 juni 2025 om 18:03 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrated-my-old-custom-built-trail-journal-blog-to-discourse/370935 "2025-06-19T18:03:12Z")
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Way back in 2010 I built my own blog-like site to aggregate all the social media posts I was making while I thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail. The idea was that I could post, check-in, geo-tag, and upload to various services and collect it all in one spot that people could easily subscribe to and follow my progress and leave comments.

It’s now basically just a static snapshot of that time but it was showing its age and the server is woefully behind on updates. So I decided to migrate it to my self-hosted Discourse server to see how a multi-site setup works.

All the media files in the past were simply hotlinked, so thankfully I was able to recover most of it even if I still lost a few things to bit-rot. Now it’s all safely stored on _my_ server (minus videos). Comments were migrated over as inactive users. The few info-pages I had now redirect to topics via Permalinks. I was able to reproduce all the features I had like a chronological topic list, tags for post-types, categories for States, and a map view.

These are themes, plugins, and components I used:  
[Isabelle](https://meta.discourse.org/t/isabelle-an-animal-crossing-inspired-theme/145005) theme.  
[Locations](https://meta.discourse.org/t/locations-plugin/69742) plugin.  
[Created as Default Sort Order](https://meta.discourse.org/t/created-as-default-sort-order/370920) plugin.  
[Created Topic Sort](https://meta.discourse.org/t/created-topic-sort/321521) theme component.  
[Topic List Thumbnails](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-list-thumbnails/150602) theme component.  
and lots of CSS tweaking.

With this setup I could easily post a future hike (PCT?), or maybe even make it a platform for others to share their own hikes. Check it out at [onahike.com](http://onahike.com).

> **[On A Hike](https://onahike.com)**
>
> Appalachian Trail 2010

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