13th June 2016
At times WordPress.com uses its user base to experiment with some half baked new features, see for example Classical editor in WordPress.com, or see this Hello Jekyll, bye Wordpress.com! These are the times when I consider migrating from WordPress.com to another blogging platform. Usually after some grumbling I stick with WordPress.com, simply because it is very good. WordPress.com is working very reliably, offering a multitude of features not found elsewhere.
Hugo is probably the best choice regarding static website generators. Hugo's strongest point is its speed, see 6 Static Blog Generators That Aren’t Jekyll. As this blog has more than 200 posts, and my other blog at Collected Links has almost 3.000 posts, speed is of concern. For a list of more static website generators see Top Open-Source Static Site Generators.
Below is a list of tasks and open issues when migrating from WordPress.com to Hugo static website generator:
Below list of features are already built-in in Hugo, and there is no need to work around it:
Added 11-Jun-2017: Julia Evans also uses Hugo. She migrated from Jekyll to Hugo. Her Hugo blog source is in GitHub.
Added 18-Jan-2018: This post is referenced in Awesome Hugo.
Categories: WordPress
Author: Elmar Klausmeier