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Sorry I switched to hugo my https://gioorgi.com https://gioorgi.com and it was easier than expected. Initially, I only followed the ‘drama’ tangentially, also

Sorry I switched to hugo my https://gioorgi.com https://gioorgi.com and it was easier than expected. Initially, I only followed the ‘drama’ tangentially, also because I have always considered myself a mere "end user" of Wordpress, even if long-time one (I used it for about 20 years). For me, the fact that Wordpress.com sold a service based on an "extended" version of Wordpress.org was never a particular problem, but I never thought it was illegal to compete directly with it by taking the open source software and offering a simple hosting service. Anyway I started to consider to switch from Wordpress to a static site hosted with hugo, retaining the comment system and all the URLs in the original form, more or less. I was surprised because it took very little time (less 1 week of total work) to migrate my articles (1000+) and the comments. I used open source tools, and I am a "hugo" newbie, so I make some trade off too. Never less, I suggest all of you to give a try to hugo+isso (isso is a comment system very light).

CrimsonRain 2y ago
What did you use to migrate posts? I'm going to move three WordPress sites (15yr+ running) off soon.
- joshstrange 2y ago
  Also very interested in this. I ended up paying for 2-3 years of WordPress.com to host my tiny-traffic blog and I had to pay for a higher tier to handle video (sidenote: fuck wordpress for offering a shitty watered-down WP version on WP.com, you know, literally the thing they complain about WPEngine doing). I'd love nothing more than to migrate away but I've already done a mess WP -> Hugo (or was it Jekyll? not sure) -> Ghost -> WP and I'd like to automate the migration as much as possible. Every other time I spent a while copy/pasting and hand-fixing posts. I know I won't get away from doing that completely but I'd like it be easier.
- jzb 2y ago
  Not the OP but I have migrated to Hugo as well. There's a number of tools to convert to Hugo from a WordPress XML export. I used wp2hugo, IIRC: https://github.com/ashishb/wp2hugo https://github.com/ashishb/wp2hugo Dead easy. Took an afternoon to do everything, including fiddling with DNS and trying different themes, etc.
gtsop 2y ago
Hugo is by no stretch of the imagination a drop in replacement for wordpress in my understanding. I understand the average joe uses wordpress for the UI and huge ecosystem, rather than it's technical capabilities (there are a million cms). Yes, technically speaking there is nothing preventing you from reimplementing everything in hugo, nothing except many months of labor Said differently, the person who will successfully and painlessly migrate wordpress to hugo is not an average case, but a minority.
system2 2y ago
People use WordPress for its plugins...

CrimsonRain 2y ago

What did you use to migrate posts? I'm going to move three WordPress sites (15yr+ running) off soon.

joshstrange 2y ago
Also very interested in this. I ended up paying for 2-3 years of WordPress.com to host my tiny-traffic blog and I had to pay for a higher tier to handle video (sidenote: fuck wordpress for offering a shitty watered-down WP version on WP.com, you know, literally the thing they complain about WPEngine doing). I'd love nothing more than to migrate away but I've already done a mess WP -> Hugo (or was it Jekyll? not sure) -> Ghost -> WP and I'd like to automate the migration as much as possible. Every other time I spent a while copy/pasting and hand-fixing posts. I know I won't get away from doing that completely but I'd like it be easier.
jzb 2y ago
Not the OP but I have migrated to Hugo as well. There's a number of tools to convert to Hugo from a WordPress XML export. I used wp2hugo, IIRC: https://github.com/ashishb/wp2hugo https://github.com/ashishb/wp2hugo Dead easy. Took an afternoon to do everything, including fiddling with DNS and trying different themes, etc.

gtsop 2y ago

Hugo is by no stretch of the imagination a drop in replacement for wordpress in my understanding. I understand the average joe uses wordpress for the UI and huge ecosystem, rather than it's technical capabilities (there are a million cms). Yes, technically speaking there is nothing preventing you from reimplementing everything in hugo, nothing except many months of labor Said differently, the person who will successfully and painlessly migrate wordpress to hugo is not an average case, but a minority.

system2 2y ago

People use WordPress for its plugins...