I lost years of my WordPress blog. So I built GitPress.

I used WordPress for my personal blog for about five or six years.

The annoying part wasn’t writing — it was everything around it.

Hosting renewal prices kept going up, so I moved the blog between providers more than once. Every migration meant backups, databases, DNS, server setup, and hoping I didn’t forget anything.

Then one year, I forgot to renew the hosting.

Several years of blog data were gone.

That made me realize I didn’t want my writing to depend on a server, a database, or even the blogging platform itself staying alive.

I tried static site generators like Hugo, but I didn’t want blogging to become a command-line workflow either. I still wanted the simple experience of WordPress: open a dashboard, write, and publish.

So I built GitPress.

GitPress is a web-based blog admin, but your posts, drafts, images, and configuration stay in your own GitHub repositories. When you publish, GitHub Actions builds the static site, and you can serve it with GitHub Pages or Vercel.

GitPress.net is only the remote control.

If GitPress disappears one day, your content is still in your GitHub account. You can self-host the control panel and keep using the same repositories — no content migration needed.

That was the whole idea.

🌐 https://gitpress.net
⭐ https://github.com/tap6/GitPress.net

I also created r/GitPress for sharing sites, themes, ideas, bugs, feedback, and anything around the project.