Hugo

Upgrading from WordPress to the Hugo static site generator

. Posted in: Optimization
Tags: WordPress, Hugo, Site Speed

I’ve been posting on this site for almost three years. The entire site has been running on WordPress from the beginning. I chose WordPress because it’s really easy and I’m really comfortable with PHP. But as time goes you often realise your actual needs. WordPress is a powerful CMS. For one, there are tonnes of themes (I mostly use the Genesis framework) and plugins. It’s very extensible and the many hooks and filters allow developers to customize the website to a very large degree. Read more →