April 16, 2026
Why I Switched from WordPress to Hugo
I used WordPress for years before switching to Hugo. Static HTML, no database, no plugins, 100/100 Lighthouse. Here is why I am not going back.
I used WordPress for years before switching to Hugo. Static HTML, no database, no plugins, 100/100 Lighthouse. Here is why I am not going back.
This script creates an image gallery. The script reads all images from a specific (user-defined) folder in the assets directory of Hugo, automagically crops them to 300px squares and shows them in rows of five.
Beautiful Mountains Museum of Pop Culture Seattle View Seattle by Night Space Needle How it works The script searches for any file in the folder ‘album’ in the assets directory of Hugo. It creates an image tag with a thumbnail for these images. The thumbnail is a 300 pixel wide square cropped version of the image. The script wraps the thumbnail in a link, which links to a larger version and will trigger a lightbox if present. The caption is the file name without extension.
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This change adds/updates translations and I have used the …
This is the best migrator for migrating WordPress export to Hugo. It handles several weird edge cases that I encountered while trying to migrate my personal website to Hugo-based site.
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The minimal example for relative markdown links:
[My Article](../my-article/index.md)Template:
/layouts/_default/_markup/render-link.html:<a href="{{ (.Page.GetPage .Destination).RelPermalink | safeURL }}"> {{ .Text | safeHTML }} </a>