Migrating from WordPress to Hugo
I’ve had a blog for years at sqlsmarts.com (no link, its dead now) that I very occasionally wrote on. I was on WordPress, and every time I wanted to just write a post, there seemed to be a hundred things that needed fixing or updating. Most of the time it honestly felt like it was more effort than it was worth. My blog had always been hosted by an old colleague, and when that was coming to and end it was either move it or lose it time.
I had seen that a friend, Justin Bird had setup his blog using Hugo, and had written a bunch of posts about how it worked. I looked like a great solution for me, I could use Markdown, VSCode and GitHub as the main tools, and could host it on Azure using the Azure Static Web Apps free tier. All of that sounded a million miles better than the Wordpress setup I had loathed for so long.
I’m not going to write a big post on how to setup Hugo on Azure, Justin has done a great job on that already. There are also a bunch of great blogs that describe the process of converting wordpress backups to Hugo markdown file, so have a search for that if you’re interested.
The most important thing for me is I now have a simple blog that makes it easy for me to share things I have learned or find interesting with minimal impedance, so I should be posting more often!