Show HN: From WordPress to Hugo+Isso

by daitangioon 1/5/2025, 10:33 AMwith 3 comments

There has been a series of unfortunate events involving Wordpress recently.

Initially, I only followed the issue 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.

Neverless, let me know what do you think and if you want more details on how I migrated it (HN loves static site, I know it :).

Before: https://web.archive.org/web/20240625184044/https://gioorgi.c... Now: https://gioorgi.com/

by brudgerson 1/6/2025, 7:45 PM

Because I didn't see anything to play with or try out, it seems more like a candidate for regular submission and not so much in the spirit of Show HN...unless there is a tool for migrating and I missed it for my own ineptness.

by hellokatonon 1/5/2025, 10:35 AM

Now you can also choose astro