Blog migration

How to migrate from WordPress to Hugo (Steps)

Pre-requisities Access to WordPress dashboard. Basic understanding of using command line. Site generator (my choice Hugo). Theme for the static site (my choice PaperMod). CloudFlare account (Free hosting on CloudFlare Pages). 1. Export WordPress to XML The first step would be to generate an XML file which is basically in the format of WordPress eXtended RSS (WXR) and contains all the data (posts, pages, comments etc). To do this:...

February 12, 2022 · 3 min · Mr. Kamath
Blog migration

Migrated the blog from WordPress to Hugo

Background I started blogging somewhere around 2004 with the initial blog using Blogger (Google owned) which was good and did what was required. Then somewhere in 2005, a friend known through Linux User Groups (LUGs) offered to get me a custom domain and also host it. He had the infrastructure so it would not have been too much additional cost for it. This is how my first domain nithinkamath.info came into picture....

January 29, 2022 · 4 min · Mr. Kamath