WordPress.com to Jekyll

Am trying to understand how to go about exporting my blog from WordPress.com to Jekyll.

My goal is to then host it on GitHub pages  under my user credentials.

Some references:

• http://hadihariri.com/2013/12/24/migrating-from-wordpress-to-jekyll/
• http://blog.8thcolor.com/en/2014/05/migrate-from-wordpress/
  • the above two were quite useful in understanding whats going on
• https://mmistakes.github.io/minimal-mistakes/
  • this theme seems quite good.
  • http://andybeger.com/2016/06/20/moving-from-wordpress-to-jekyll/
  • http://hadihariri.com/2013/12/24/migrating-from-wordpress-to-jekyll/
• http://karpathy.github.io/2014/07/01/switching-to-jekyll/
• http://www.girliemac.com/blog/2013/12/27/wordpress-to-jekyll/
• http://www.adamwadeharris.com/how-to-convert-a-wordpress-site-to-jekyll-with-github-pages/