elmineI’ve got a static version of my personal blog running on my laptop using Hugo. Now I need to decide whether to really jump ship and replace the live wordpress version 😱😅
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Erik Visser@elmine why not use WordPress as a headless cms instead of going for Hugo?
I have thought about going static with my WP site for a long time but I'm not technical enough to pull that off.
But the tech is getting easier but I still don't have the guts to do it.
So I'm very interested in your proces and the choices you make/made to make it happen.
@erikvisser I’ll probably blog about it once I decided ;-)
Rolf Kleef@elmine I've been trying to set something up for a situation like that... work in progress to combine Wordpress and a static site
https://drostan.org/updates/2026/03/an-update-on-wordpress-as-my-social-hub/
@rolfkleef Very interesting experiment!
@rolfkleef @elmine Hello Rolf! Very interested party here. Is your static site still powered by WordPress or are you using a different cms/system?
I would love to make my WP site static but it's still to technical for me to have faith in een working end result.
@erikvisser @elmine I now really manage my content in Obsidian, WP was just publishing. [See my journey](https://drostan.org/updates/2025/07/digital-gardening/), warning "this is probably not for you" ;-)
Publishing Markdown files is doable if you're willing to endure some technical work, but still far from "crossing the chasm".
We're looking at it as an option for Doaidag, though.
In the Social Web devroom I concluded WP has a lot of fediverse etc out-of-the-box, and is the most comfortable for me to build out that part.
@rolfkleef thanks! The warning is definitely ment for me :)
But I really like the concept of one place to create/manage content and "declassify" some to my public static site.
Tried Obsidian too (so many people are happy with it) but I couldn't make it as friction-less as I need to really use it consistently.
So here I am still using all kinds of apps to solidify stuff and copy pasting and transforming it. All time consuming barriers keeping it from reaching the publishing stage.
Roy@elmine I'm sure you'd be able to figure this out yourself, but since its also hugo: https://blog.royscholten.nl/nl/posts/2026/share-on-mastodon/
Share on Mastodon
Een nieuw tooltje waarmee je een ‘deel dit op Mastodon’ link aan je site, blog kunt toevoegen. Klik de link Kom uit op share.joinmastodon.org waar je: Wat je wil delen kunt schrijven of aanpassen De eerste keer aangeeft wat je mastodon handle is zodat je naar de bijbehorende server, vooruit, instance, doorgestuurd kunt worden. Inderdaad wordt doorgestuurd naar het berichtformulier op die eigen server alwaar je op ‘Post’ kunt duwen.
Michael Boelen@elmine
The answer is... YES!
The answer is... YES!