Migrate from WordPress to Hugo, Step by Step

Migrate from WordPress to Hugo, Step by Step, available at $54.99, has an average rating of 4.4, with 96 lectures, based on 172 reviews, and has 1136 subscribers.

You will learn about Migrate a blog from the WordPress platform to an ultra-fast website using the Hugo static site generator. Leverage your HTML/CSS skills to create custom Hugo themes. Learn Hugo as you go! Determine whether or not Hugo will work for your website or blog. Understand how to use Hugo to easily post content to your blog. Understand some solid hosting options for your site and how to configure each one. This course is ideal for individuals who are Web developers interested in learning Hugo or Anyone with a slow WordPress site looking for greatly increased performance and enhanced SEO. or Anyone tired of constantly patching WordPress security vulnerabilities. or Anyone looking for free (or extremely low-cost) hosting options for their website. It is particularly useful for Web developers interested in learning Hugo or Anyone with a slow WordPress site looking for greatly increased performance and enhanced SEO. or Anyone tired of constantly patching WordPress security vulnerabilities. or Anyone looking for free (or extremely low-cost) hosting options for their website.

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Summary

Title: Migrate from WordPress to Hugo, Step by Step

Price: $54.99

Average Rating: 4.4

Number of Lectures: 96

Number of Published Lectures: 96

Number of Curriculum Items: 96

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 96

Original Price: $199.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Migrate a blog from the WordPress platform to an ultra-fast website using the Hugo static site generator.

Leverage your HTML/CSS skills to create custom Hugo themes.

Learn Hugo as you go!

Determine whether or not Hugo will work for your website or blog.

Understand how to use Hugo to easily post content to your blog.

Understand some solid hosting options for your site and how to configure each one.

Who Should Attend

Web developers interested in learning Hugo

Anyone with a slow WordPress site looking for greatly increased performance and enhanced SEO.

Anyone tired of constantly patching WordPress security vulnerabilities.

Anyone looking for free (or extremely low-cost) hosting options for their website.

Target Audiences

Web developers interested in learning Hugo

Anyone with a slow WordPress site looking for greatly increased performance and enhanced SEO.

Anyone tired of constantly patching WordPress security vulnerabilities.

Anyone looking for free (or extremely low-cost) hosting options for their website.

Hugo is a super fast static site generator that’s here to save you time and make your site fast, secure, and inexpensive to host. There’s just one catch, your current website is already on WordPress&. This course will guide you through safely migrating your site and your workflow from WordPress to Hugo.

NOTE: Some of the earlier course content is out of date, because Hugo has continued to advance since I started creating this course a few years ago. There is still a TON of great content here, but a little “elbow grease” may be required to get things working on your machine.

NOTE2: I don’t have time to finish and update this course.  :'(  If you are an experienced course content creator and would like to take over the superhero cape, reach out to me on LinkedIn.

Background:

WordPress is the most popular website management system in the world. And with good reason: it’s easy to get up and running, and there is a rich ecosystem of beautiful themes and feature-enhancing plugins. 

However, (queue the eerie mood music), WordPress has is faults

Every year, security vulnerabilities are discovered in WordPress and its underlying programming language, PHP.

Content is served dynamically, so site performance suffers. Getting a solid PageSpeed ranking requires lots of of time, plugins, and hacks.

Good hosting options can be quite expensive.

Its database back-end limits hosting options and complicates backup and recovery.

But here’s a secret you probably already know: Today, the vast majority of sites don’t need to be on WordPress. Most sites serve static, or unchanging, content. For example, I’m doing good if I can publish to my blog once a month or so. So why was I using a Content Management System (CMS) like WordPress? In my case, I didn’t want to have to write my posts as HTML, upload them over FTP, update index pages to include my new post, manually add pagination, headers, footers, format images, etc. WordPress automated all of this. For the most part, all I had to do was focus on the content; WordPress took care of the rest. It was glorious!

That was the early 2000s. Nowadays we have static site generators like Hugo! With Hugo, I just write my blog post. Then Hugo generates my entire site, including all of those updated links, headers, footers, even a sitemap. And get this: it does it in about 1 second. Then, with a single command I can push my updated site to a service like Netlify, and my new post is live within a few minutes.

With Hugo, you get:

Ultra-fast site generation

Free hosting options

More security because there is no database or run-time to hack

Static pages are faster to serve and easy to cache. A faster site means better SEO.

Backups are essentially unnecessary if you store your repo on GitHub or GitLab.

Change tracking comes for free if you store your site in a Git repo.

Of course, for long-time WordPress users like myself, a number of questions come up:

What about my SEO plugin (yoast)? (Coming)

What about my syntax highlighting plugin (for tech blogs)? (Coming)

What about my comments!? (Coming)

What about my cool theme? Can I port it Hugo? (In progress)

What about help with spelling, grammar, writing style? (Coming)

What about advanced plugins for asset bundling, minification, etc? (In progress)

Learn all this and more with this comprehensive course. Enjoy!

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Hugo to the Rescue!

Lecture 2: Hugo – The Origin Story

Lecture 3: Is Hugo the best fit for your site?

Lecture 4: Course prerequisites

Lecture 5: Recap and whats next

Chapter 2: Set up your tools

Lecture 1: Section introduction

Lecture 2: Install Chocolatey package manager (Windows only)

Lecture 3: Install Hugo

Lecture 4: Install Visual Studio Code and extensions

Lecture 5: Installing Git

Lecture 6: Learning Git

Lecture 7: Install posh-git (Windows, optional)

Lecture 8: Install Node.js

Lecture 9: Install 7-zip (Windows only)

Lecture 10: Recap and whats next

Chapter 3: Groundwork: Configure repository on GitLab

Lecture 1: Section introduction

Lecture 2: Meet GitLab

Lecture 3: Create a GitLab account

Lecture 4: Create a new private repo on Gitlab

Lecture 5: Setup your SSH keys

Lecture 6: Clone the repo on your machine

Lecture 7: Sidebar: Hey, what about GitHub?

Lecture 8: Recap and whats next

Chapter 4: Build a new Hugo site to move into

Lecture 1: Section introduction

Lecture 2: Create a new Hugo site with hugo new site

Lecture 3: Baby Steps: save your work with git commit

Lecture 4: Add .editorconfig for consistent file formatting

Lecture 5: .gitignore: telling files to talk to the hand

Lecture 6: Recap and whats next

Chapter 5: Choose and configure a theme

Lecture 1: Section introduction

Lecture 2: Why do I need a new theme?

Lecture 3: Choosing a Hugo theme

Lecture 4: Install your new Hugo theme

Lecture 5: Configure the theme using the config.toml file

Lecture 6: Discovering front matter

Lecture 7: Recap and whats next

Chapter 6: Write a new post with Hugo

Lecture 1: Section introduction

Lecture 2: Meet markdown, the easiest way to format text

Lecture 3: Create a new post with Hugo

Lecture 4: Live site preview with the Hugo server

Lecture 5: Add a picture with {{ figure }}

Lecture 6: Unleash your draft post

Lecture 7: Alternative: Create a new post as a page bundle

Lecture 8: Recap and whats next

Chapter 7: Manually move posts and pages from WordPress to Hugo

Lecture 1: Section introduction

Lecture 2: Migrate a single post

Lecture 3: Preserve your post metadata

Lecture 4: Migrate post images

Lecture 5: Alternative: Migrate post images as a page bundle

Lecture 6: Clean up your markdown

Lecture 7: Migrate the About page

Lecture 8: Recap and whats next

Chapter 8: Deploy site with GitLab Pages

Lecture 1: Section introduction

Lecture 2: Configure CI/CD with a .gitlab-ci.yml file

Lecture 3: Watch your site build in the CI pipeline

Lecture 4: Viewing your deployed site (404 not found?)

Lecture 5: My site has no style! Troubleshoot locally with http-server

Lecture 6: Configure a custom domain name

Lecture 7: Recap and whats next

Chapter 9: Deploy site with Netlify (robust alternative to GitLab Pages)

Lecture 1: Section introduction

Lecture 2: Meet Netlify

Lecture 3: A note about security

Lecture 4: How much will Netlify cost?

Lecture 5: Create a Netlify account and explore

Lecture 6: Link GitLab repo to Netlify

Lecture 7: Deploy the site to Netlify!

Lecture 8: Configure a custom domain name with Netlify

Lecture 9: Make use of automatic deploy previews for merge requests

Lecture 10: Get more control with netlify.toml

Lecture 11: Configure branch-specific deploy settings

Lecture 12: Get notified of deployment events and Netlify outages

Lecture 13: Section recap

Chapter 10: Edit content easier with a CMS

Lecture 1: Section introduction

Lecture 2: What’s so great about a CMS?

Lecture 3: Meet Netlify CMS

Lecture 4: Add Netlify CMS to your site

Lecture 5: Configuring Collections

Lecture 6: Enable Identity and Git-Gateway

Lecture 7: Add a new post with Netlify CMS

Lecture 8: Customize Netlify CMS (a little bit)

Lecture 9: Hey, what about Forestry.io?

Lecture 10: Section recap

Chapter 11: Lets create a theme! (UNDER CONSTRUCTION)

Lecture 1: Section introduction (TBD)

Lecture 2: Templates – Part 1

Lecture 3: Aside: Hugo Variables

Lecture 4: Templates – Part 2

Lecture 5: hugo new theme

Lecture 6: Understanding baseof.html

Lecture 7: Using blocks (without dropping them on your foot!)

Instructors

Ty Walls
Software engineer in love with creating and learning

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