I may be wrong here, but I understood Hugo sites to be static sites, therefore not supporting comments, for example. How does your tool handle migrating a WordPress side with comments to a Hugo site?
Thanks for sharing @symkat, love seeing developer side projects.
Was curious why you picked Hugo over something like Astro. I'm migrating a site off of Jekyll and have found Astro has a lot of interesting features if I want to use them but is at its heart a static site generator and seems to be a pretty easy lift to migrate to. Haven't done much evaluation of Hugo yet.
The 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.
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?
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 theme/template to be used in Hugo (nor nothing specific to Hugo).
It's just exporting your blog posts from WordPress database into a Markdown file format.
Note: still very useful, I just find the name confusing.
WordPress is not just content - it's plugins such as WooCommerce, GiveWP, email marketing, BuddyPress, membership plugins, etc.
Part of me was really hoping this was going to be for the Hugo interactive fiction game engine [0]
That'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.
Does it handle themes, plugins, etc., as well? Thx.
$150 haha. Wtf.
Good. 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 inside me is dying a bit.
Edit: 413 Request Entity Too Large.
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 some custom code to spit out markdown (it was a while back but I think just regexes). It got me the bulk of the way there but I still had to go through every page and tweak it to get everything just right. Would happily have paid $150 to avoid that.
Are you keeping URLs stable? That was tricky for me IIRC, along with RSS.
(The very trickiest bit was probably specific to me. I still have inbound links with the page in a "/?p=3" kind of query param, which I think was the WordPress default 20-odd years ago. I didn't want to make the root URL for the site non-static to handle that, so I wound up putting some JS in my index page template that checks for that kind of thing. If it spots it, it changes window.location to a specific URL that is delegated a Flask site that knows where to redirect people. Link in bio if anyone wants to see how it works. I should probably blog about it sometime!)