6 Jun
2020
6 Jun
'20
3:29 p.m.
On Sat, Jun 06, 2020 at 04:11:53PM +0100, Dave Mills wrote:
Long shot probably, but have any of you had any
success migrating away from
wordpress to a static site generator? I really want to ditch wordpress.
The guides on the hugo website are useful, but Ideally I'd like something
that can slurp in the whole site images and well as text and dump out a
directory structure with images and the posts they belong to together. If
it can be made to preserve relative URLs too that would be great.
Failing there being some tool I've overlooked, does anyone have suggestions
for a paid solution?
I migrated with a Drupal site to Hugo. I regretted the decision at
the time, and I'm not sure I can be bothered to manage the Hugo site
in the future. (Fortunately, I don't write much on my website any
more).
The data migration was a "simple" matter of dumping the database
tables, and writing a few shell scripts to extract the relevant data
into Hugo files.
However... I found the Hugo documentation absolutely appalling.
They do eventually give you information, but it's badly written and
poorly structured -- both at the level of individual pages and at the
level of the whole thing. There's no overview, nothing which gives a
reasonable description of how things fit together at a high level.
Actually working out how to achieve any particular goal was an
exercise in total frustration.
I don't know if any of the other static site generators out there
are any better, but I find it hard to recommend Hugo.
Hugo.
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