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title: "Netlify, Hugo, and Wowchemy or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Blog"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/netlify-hugo-and-wowchemy-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-blog-kvqdqcxr7
source_url: https://nodogmablog.bryanhogan.net/2021/05/netlify-hugo-and-wowchemy-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-blog
type: article
source: "No Dogma Blog (Bryan Hogan)"
published: 2026-05-31T07:47:02.360Z
updated: 2026-05-31T08:19:47.246Z
tags: ["wordpress", "netlify"]
reading_time: 10
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
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# Netlify, Hugo, and Wowchemy or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Blog

**[No Dogma Blog \(Bryan Hogan\)](https://daily.dev/sources/bryanhogan)** · 10 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

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.

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