Hosting your Hugo website for free

As promised, here I am with a blog post about how I shifted to Hugo from Wordpress. What we’ll achieve by the end of this blog post: Migrating your data out of Wordpress (optional) Installing Hugo Creating a new blank Hugo website Importing your wordpress content into your new Hugo site (optional) Committing your new website to Github Setting up a free account with DigitalOcean and linking your GitHub website repo to DigitalOcean apps to enable automated deployments Setting up a custom domain for your website on DigitalOcean Migrating your data out of Wordpress I found the easiest way to do this is to use the WordPress Jekyll Exporter plugin. Just install this on your WordPress site, and download an export. Keep the zip file somewhere safe, we will need it later on. ...

September 29, 2022 · 4 min · 666 words · Kalpik Nigam