Migrating to Static HTML

One this year's projects has been moving the (eight) websites I shepherd for various projects and community organizations from Wordpress to static HTML. I tried a bunch and settled on Hugo and Publii

I used Hugo for several simple sites. It's good for some things but it's really only suitable for coders and the image handling is a headache.  It's a fine choice for sites that are mostly text, with one or more technical site managers.  It's a good one if you want to keep everything in source The Wordpress migration tool wp2hugo works very well, as described by Bastian.  

Oct 26, 2024: I haven't finished the content migration, but using Wordpress is now such a grating experience for me, that I went ahead and made the static site live.  A whole bunch of posts have been disabled until I can fix up the links and images.  Everything will be restored little by little over the next few weeks.  My Wordpress-to-Publii process (and some thoughts) are here.


This article was updated on March 7, 2025

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