Why changing from WordPress to Hugo

Why leaving Wordpress for Hugo

Wordpress is one of the most popular CMS at this moment. Still a perfect solution for non-technical users. It has a lot of functionality and a lot of plugins are developed for Wordpress. And just because it is so popular, it is also a interesting target for hackers. You need to keep everything up-to-date. Every day I see in the logging what links the are trying. Never had a problem by the way, but I do not need a dynamic CMS. In the early days I had a simple HTML website and no chance to break in there ;). For a few years I was looking for a good static alternative for Wordpress.

Why Hugo

I tried Jekyll, but it wasn’t my cup of tea. Slow, a lot of installation packages. I didn’t like it. After that I tried Hugo and it was exactly what I was looking for. Benefits of Hugo:

No software safety updates on the website required
Simple and fast static website generation
Super fast rendering
Simple to install locally on my Windows machine
Theme’s are pretty easy to adapt and understand
Posts are easy to write in markdown language
Simple version management with Git
Easy to backup

Disadvantages of Hugo:

It is not for non-technical users
Not much tooling (yet) for migration from Wordpress, but I did my best in the following article Migration from Wordpress to Hugo

The next posts are guiding you through how to use Hugo: