From WordPress to Hugo

Can’t believe it’s been so many years … But the time has come to say farewell to WordPress . It’s been on my mind for years, but never really put in the effort to export so many years worth of posts, media, etc to a better solution… It felt like a Herculean job and everytime I thought about it for more than 3 minutes, I dreaded the idea. But since the future’s (finally) here, thanks to AI, I was able to export it all without fiddling with broken or paid addons and get everything in Hugo within a few hours worth of work. The site lives (for now) on Cloudflare, with the media in R2. The deploy via Gitlab-ci is (or should, let’s find out after this post 🥲) be fully automated and media should sync up in R2. There’s not a single reason I was fed up with WordPress, it was a mix of drama , the potential security issues (althought it was all running in containers, but still), the fact WP felt slower and slower (with a lot of bloatware), but also really because I started to hate the editor. It…