wp2hugo
Dev tools
static site migration
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How HN took it
3 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 7 critical, out of 16 comments about the project. Thread score -0.25.
Idea: 1 for, 4 againstPricing: 2 for, 3 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful for moving blogs off WordPress without manual work.
From 2 comments
This is ~1 hour of software engineer, ~2 hours of technology generalist time. Time is non renewable, and humans have a cost. If you're an agency, business, whatever, and have the…
toomuchtodo on HNThat's a great tool! When I migrated from WordPress to Astro before, I used my own custom script for the migration. I think having tools like this is very convenient and useful.
codenote on HN
Objections
Charging $150 seems high for a conversion script.
From 2 comments
$150 haha. Wtf.
GlacierFox on HNGood. But I do wonder why we're flooded with "services" like that when a simple open-source Python script could do this. $150 FFS. I hope you have clients but the open-source dev…
JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B on HN
Name suggests Hugo theme conversion but it only converts content to Markdown.
From 1 comment
Isn't this a bit deceiving to call this "WordPress 2 Hugo"? Because isn't this just "WordPress 2 Markdown". Unless I'm mistaken, this does not recreate your WordPress…
tiffanyh on HN
Plugins and dynamic functionality such as WooCommerce are not handled.
From 2 comments
WordPress is not just content - it's plugins such as WooCommerce, GiveWP, email marketing, BuddyPress, membership plugins, etc.
nikolay on HNThe real money is in converting sites with plugins and retaining the functionality which in many cases isn’t static. The copying of data to another tool is the easy part.
binary_slinger on HN
Requests
Keep URLs stable during conversion.
From 1 comment
That's pretty cool! I ported my own WP blog to a static site generator (my own but with a format inspired by Hugo) a while back and hacked together a script with wpparser and…
gpjt on HN
Handle images and media uploads.
From 1 comment
And how do I upload an image of my cat to my all new Hugo site? WP lets me drag/drop or upload media very very easily. Has done for years. Hugo? or indeed most SSG's?
markx2 on HN
Questions
Does it handle themes and plugins?
From 1 comment
Does it handle themes, plugins, etc., as well? Thx.
alok-g on HN
Are URLs kept stable?
From 1 comment
That's pretty cool! I ported my own WP blog to a static site generator (my own but with a format inspired by Hugo) a while back and hacked together a script with wpparser and…
gpjt on HN
Alternatives named
ashishb/wp2hugo open-source script on GitHub.
From 1 comment
https://github.com/ashishb/wp2hugo is pretty good. That said I think there's probably room for a good solution that doesn't require command line proficiency.
BryantD on HN
Custom scripts using wpparser or pandoc.
From 2 comments
That's pretty cool! I ported my own WP blog to a static site generator (my own but with a format inspired by Hugo) a while back and hacked together a script with wpparser and…
gpjt on HNThat's a great tool! When I migrated from WordPress to Astro before, I used my own custom script for the migration. I think having tools like this is very convenient and useful.
codenote on HN