Blog updated and migrated

Wed, 01 Apr 2020 11:41:28 +0200

In 2015 I started with a personal blog which was called Mindmelt.nl. This blog was based on Wordpress and up until now my blog was running there.Last year I talked with some colleagues about which platform they were using and some of them mentioned Hugo. I really like Hugo and also the fact that when you can check your post local before publishing, push it to a git repository and have it automatically being hosted online. So with the ‘intelligent lockdown’ we are in due to Corvid-19, I thought it was a good idea to migrate my current blog, based on Wordpress, to a new blog based on Hugo. I also decided to change the domain name from Mindmelt.nl to JurgenAllewijn.nl. When I decided to move to a new blog, I didn’t want to loose all my old blogposts so I tried some of the tools which were mentioned on the Hugo website. I was not very happy with the results of the tools I tried. Then I came over an article about migrating from Wordpress to Hugo by Christopher Kirk-Nielsen. As written in his article he used a tool called blog2md. First I logged on to my Wordpress site and exported all my posts to an xml file. With blog2md I converted this xml to markdown so that I had all my post as seperate markdown files. For the images I had to choose another approach. I installed the plugin WP file manager on my Wordpress site. With WP File Manager you get access to your Wordpress site. You can then select all images in the Upload directory and download them as an archive. I had now all the components I needed to start my new blog. First I installed Hugo using Homebrew:

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