The simplest blog is just text files

Moved my blog from WordPress to Hugo on GitHub Pages.

No more PHP. No MySQL. No /wp-admin. No plugin updates. No server to maintain.

Just markdown files in a Git repo. Push to deploy. Everything is pre-built HTML — there’s nothing to hack, nothing to crash, nothing to patch.

Why it matters

A blog should be simple. WordPress was overkill for 25 posts. Hugo builds the entire site in under 200ms. GitHub Pages serves it for free. SSL auto-renewed. No hosting panel, no control panel, no cron jobs, no email alerts about outdated plugins at 2am.

Bare metal in spirit, even if it’s on GitHub’s infra.

The migration

Wrote a quick Python script that pulls posts from the WordPress REST API, converts HTML to Markdown, maps categories and tags, and downloads images locally. Two posts imported today. The rest queued.

What I lost: a GUI.
What I gained: everything else.

This is how a personal blog should work. No maintenance. Just write and push.