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Comment by fareesh | Hacker News Reader

Read the post and saw Facebook like button at the bottom. Was pretty amused

I find it amusing too.

I don't hold user data or regulated data... so I'm hopefully one of the cases that isn't illegal, but if I'm wrong then please let me know a worthwhile wordpress.com -> static site tool. With a baby abusing my free time, new hosting has been a low priority.

Update: I don't like that Facebook gets told what you read on my site, but I'm not sure it indicates much to them, maybe they'll sack Facebook employees who read this? Let me know.

Jekyll has a self-hosted wordpress [1] and a wordpress.com [2] import tool. Jekyll works on GitHub pages and GitLab pages, the GitHub option requiring very little effort to use. Posts are easy to write in Markdown, which is used in a basic form here on HN, and themes are readily available and easy to make.

[1]: https://import.jekyllrb.com/docs/wordpress/

[2]: https://import.jekyllrb.com/docs/wordpressdotcom/

Among the interesting choices, this was posted this week I think https://blot.im/ (not self hosted)

I personally like Ghost, although it is not without its critics. Jekyll is great too.

If you don't mind losing the like counter, you can just switch to a static link for the like button. Here's a WP plugin that does essentially that:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/optimized-sharing/

(I haven't used that plugin, but it's similar to what I normally do in WP themes manually)

I don't think anything is being loaded from Facebook there. When I check the network tab and umatrix, there are no network requests to Facebook.

Yeah I think this is a feature of Jetpack. Jetpack has the resources to check all the analytics on a URL in the background and then just the necessary data is brought over to the page.

Hmm no there is a request to graph.facebook.com so I don't think that assessment is accurate.

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