Can’t believe it’s been so many years… But the time has come to say farewell to WordPress.

It’s been on my mind for years, but never really put in the effort to export so many years worth of posts, media, etc to a better solution… It felt like a Herculean job and everytime I thought about it for more than 3 minutes, I dreaded the idea.

But since the future’s (finally) here, thanks to AI, I was able to export it all without fiddling with broken or paid addons and get everything in Hugo within a few hours worth of work. The site lives (for now) on Cloudflare, with the media in R2. The deploy via Gitlab-ci is (or should, let’s find out after this post 🥲) be fully automated and media should sync up in R2.

There’s not a single reason I was fed up with WordPress, it was a mix of drama, the potential security issues (althought it was all running in containers, but still), the fact WP felt slower and slower (with a lot of bloatware), but also really because I started to hate the editor. It was bulky and annoying and a real pain to deal with lately.

I’ve been running Hugo for 2-3 years now at FlatTurtle, and started to love the simplicity and speed. So that’s what I went with.

Nothing more to say about it … -.-)