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The problem with static sites is that you have to regenerate the site each time you make an update or new post... Wordpress just allows you to update it from th

The problem with static sites is that you have to regenerate the site each time you make an update or new post... Wordpress just allows you to update it from the admin panel.

deburo 9y ago
Depends on what youre using to host the html files, but you can probably deploy in two commands. 1. generate your files 2. copy these files to your host Put these in a script, and your workflow becomes: update your content, then run your script.
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mark212 9y ago
My experience with Hugo through v0.17 was that it takes ~1ms per post to generate. IIRc that was one of the major reasons why the author wrote, vastly increase the speed of regenerating the site.
- nickthemagicman 9y ago
  Right. But I can update my Wordpress site from my phone in China without a laptop running Hugo...
  - mcbits 9y ago
    Maybe things are getting better these days (?), but at various points throughout its history, anyone could update your WordPress site from their phone in China.
  - veidr 9y ago
    Right, and that's a truly killer feature if you happen to need it. Hugo doesn't address that problem at all, nor do Jekyll, which I currently use, and the other similar tools I've looked at. However, the missing step there (of rendering the static site and publishing it) seems well suited to being done "in the cloud" then on the client device where the posting/editing/typo. If you have a machine or VM on the Internet to use, this is not difficult to set up for yourself (any computer-proficient user with a little time can do it). But doing that is also nowhere near as trivial as WordPress makes it (any person at all can do it).
    - detaro 9y ago
      That seems like exactly the gap Netlify wants to fill with their Netlify CMS (and a bunch of other options, depending on your exact needs).
      - veidr 9y ago
        Interesting; thanks. I just signed up for forestry.io (which I also learned of in this HN thread), I will check out Netlify also.
the_stc 9y ago
Some hosts like Gitlab Pages or Netlify will run hugo for you. So you can use an online git editor, save, and it'll deploy automatically. Not Wordpress wysiwyg but still pretty nice.

The problem with static sites is that you have to regenerate the site each time you make an update or new post... Wordpress just allows you to update it from the admin panel.

deburo 9y ago

Depends on what youre using to host the html files, but you can probably deploy in two commands. 1. generate your files 2. copy these files to your host Put these in a script, and your workflow becomes: update your content, then run your script.

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mark212 9y ago

My experience with Hugo through v0.17 was that it takes ~1ms per post to generate. IIRc that was one of the major reasons why the author wrote, vastly increase the speed of regenerating the site.

nickthemagicman 9y ago
Right. But I can update my Wordpress site from my phone in China without a laptop running Hugo...
- mcbits 9y ago
  Maybe things are getting better these days (?), but at various points throughout its history, anyone could update your WordPress site from their phone in China.
- veidr 9y ago
  Right, and that's a truly killer feature if you happen to need it. Hugo doesn't address that problem at all, nor do Jekyll, which I currently use, and the other similar tools I've looked at. However, the missing step there (of rendering the static site and publishing it) seems well suited to being done "in the cloud" then on the client device where the posting/editing/typo. If you have a machine or VM on the Internet to use, this is not difficult to set up for yourself (any computer-proficient user with a little time can do it). But doing that is also nowhere near as trivial as WordPress makes it (any person at all can do it).
  - detaro 9y ago
    That seems like exactly the gap Netlify wants to fill with their Netlify CMS (and a bunch of other options, depending on your exact needs).
    - veidr 9y ago
      Interesting; thanks. I just signed up for forestry.io (which I also learned of in this HN thread), I will check out Netlify also.

the_stc 9y ago

Some hosts like Gitlab Pages or Netlify will run hugo for you. So you can use an online git editor, save, and it'll deploy automatically. Not Wordpress wysiwyg but still pretty nice.