Why a New Website?
My personal website and blog was a WordPress site for a long time, and I was mostly okay with that, but it gradually seemed more and more silly. Running a database, a PHP server, and a caching engine to serve a simple, static website felt like using a $5000 robot to butter my toast.
I decided to switch to using Hugo, a simple static site generator. Just be clear, I still write everything here myself. All Hugo does is convert what I write (using Markdown) to modern HTML so that it can be published online.
I hoped that I would be able to automatically migrate my old WordPress website and blog to Hugo, but in the end, I never found a tool that did everything I wanted. Instead, I exported the old site to a static site (i.e. a big pile of HTML files), and I put that at troymcconaghy.ca.
You may have noticed that this new personal website and blog is at troymcconaghy.com, my main domain for a long time.
I might manually transfer some pages and blog posts from the old site to this new one. I found a Firefox plugin that claims to give me the power to select some text from my old website and then copy it to my clipboard as Markdown. I could then paste that into a source file for Hugo. I’ll give it a try and see how well it works.
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