Migrating a 20-Year WordPress Blog to Hugo and Cloudflare

I moved my 20+ year old WordPress blog off Bluehost and onto a modern static site setup with Hugo and Cloudflare Workers. What I expected to be a painful, multi-week project turned into a surprisingly smooth 4-day migration, largely thanks to working with Claude as a coding agent throughout the process. Why Move Away from WordPress? WordPress has served me well for two decades, but it felt like overkill for what is essentially a personal blog. I’m not running e-commerce, I don’t need a database for every page load, and I definitely don’t need the constant plugin updates and security concerns. More importantly, Bluehost, while reliable, isn’t exactly a modern hosting vendor. I wanted to explore what a more current tech stack could offer.