Switched From WordPress to Hugo

I’ve switched my site from WordPress to Hugo. I was intrigued by Markdown and the ability of just focusing on the content and not having to deal directly with HTML. I hate HTML. Then I went down the path of choosing a static site generator. There’s a lot of them but I chose Hugo because it’s fast and not written in Javascript. I may start learning Go as well. I didn’t need a full-blown CMS for this site anyway and could do without having to update WordPress/theme/plugins periodically. Plus editing the site on the command-line is fun too. Let’s see if I start posting more often.

For comments, I went with Cactus Comments. I wasn’t interested in using social logins from the big social media companies and I also wasn’t completely into the idea of visitors signing up to comment on my site only. So Cactus checked all the boxes. Privacy friendly, free and open source, decentralized. I’m self-hosting it on my matrix homeserver.