I just switched my personal website and blog engine from Jekyll to Org-mode. As all my blog posts were already written in the org-mode format, switching was a breeze. Org-mode includes a RSS exporter in the contrib directory and together with its HTML publishing features, it makes it a very powerful website builder.

You might ask why using org-mode at all when I could use wordpress or another blog engine. Well, first, I get to edit my website entirely within Emacs. That alone is a joy. Also, as I already use org-mode for planning, gtd, LaTeX authoring and personal wiki, it just makes sense to use it for my website too.

Here's the bit of elisp that I use for this website: