Netlify, Hugo, and Wowchemy or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Blog
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A developer shares their experience migrating a long-running WordPress blog to a static site stack using Hugo, Wowchemy, and Netlify. The post covers the pain points of self-hosted WordPress (plugin vulnerabilities, PHP version management, unreliable hosting, backup complexity) that ultimately prompted the move, the migration process for 290+ posts from WordPress XML to Markdown, and the benefits of the new setup including faster load times, zero maintenance overhead, Git-based backups, and easy deployment via GitHub integration.
Table of contents
tl;drIntroductionStarting at the endThe WordPress YearsThe Plugin Update that Brought the Site DownThe Great MigrationHugo and WowchemyNetlifyDown Goes the Old Site AgainThe DNS ChangeConclusion1 Impression