Swiss Innovation Academy

Migration

I'm migrating 10 years of content from my old website to this website that runs on Ghost. That takes a shit load of time, both in terms of migration and setup of this new website. Here you can see the timeline of the progress.

Migration progress 20%
Ghost template 50%

243

Total posts

201

Q&A

19

Blog articles

11

Total pages

An illustration showing a migration process from an unhappy site to a ghost website with a happy search

Wishlist of changes

One day

  • Import the courses from Podia to Ghost as books
  • Import the newsletters from Podia to Ghost
  • Import the templates from Podia to Ghost
  • Accessibility: make a full accessibility review with humans
  • Close Podia
  • Set the redirections

Next

  • Fix the bugs between the Service Design Principles posts and books so that they have different layouts.
  • Import the books from Podia to Ghost

In progress

  • Import all the Q&A from Podia to Ghost

Changes made

August 24, 2026: Books and Principles

  • Count bug: Fixed the bug that didn't display the number of articles in a tag at the end of a post. It showed the name of the tag and an empty parenthesis. Now the tag pill shows the number of articles.
  • Books cover: Updated the books page header to be simpler, rebuilt the sections to be around categories like: Principles series, for beginners, advanced. Created a first draft of an automatic cover creation system based on the id of each post so that the covers are generated yet stay the same.
  • Migration Kanban: Added a kanban view showing what are the next changes that are coming at the top of this Migration page.
  • Principles: Created a custom template for the Principles posts and the Service Design Principles Library. It's not yet how I'd like it to be but it's a start. Nice features? Footnotes that transform into tooltips, automatic related book based on the tags, and different layout.
  • Home update: the latest principles now show on the home page like the latest Q&A. The titles of the sections bring to the Q&A library and Principles Library

August 23, 2026: Accessibility

August 22, 2026: Dashboard

  • Migration Dashboard: Added on the Migration page a mini dashboard with the key numbers of pages, posts, and posts by main types: Q&A and blog articles.

August 21, 2026: Misc

  • Progress Migration: Added progress bars showing the migration progress on the Migration page. There I also added the list of articles speaking about Ghost instead of just linking to that tag.
  • Better tooltips: I've updated the migration progress bars (in the tooltip when hovering the beta mention and in the migration page) so that they use the data from the Twitter card description so that I can update the bars without having to rebuild the theme in Pixelglass.
  • Author link: Added a link to the author avatar and name in blog posts that brings to the about page and more specifically the section where I present myself.

August 20, 2026: Events

  • Pro bono events: Updated the template of the Pro Bono Agency initiative to show the events related to the initiative and changed the texts that describe the concept including a list of individual projects that are in progress or have already happened.
  • Events: Added a page events with a custom template

August 19, 2026: Pixelglass made theme

  • Illustration: Added an illustration on the about page.
  • Legal: Updated the legal page with more details and a new illustration.
  • Migration timeline: Created this migration timeline page with an illustration and a custom timeline look.
  • Search update: Updated the search feature of Magic Pages to use a richer layout with filtering options.
  • New theme: Installed theme I made with Pixelglass.

July 2026

June 2026

  • New theme: Updated the look of this website with a new template I created with Fantasma.

May 2026

  • Ghost install: I've bought a lifetime license of Magic Pages hosting for Ghost and started to setup this new website.

Go further

If you want to know more details about the backstage of this migration process you can read the articles I wrote about my Ghost setup.

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