Personal Blog Migration: From Drupal to Hugo After 14 Years
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mikece
4mo ago· 5 min readenNews
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Slow-proofed and worth the wait. Worth its weight in flour.
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Summary
The author describes migrating their personal blog from Drupal to Hugo after using Drupal for over a decade. They explain that while they initially used Drupal to 'dogfood' the CMS they used professionally, maintaining the increasingly complex enterprise-focused platform became burdensome for a personal passion project. The migration to Hugo represents a shift to a simpler, more maintainable static site generator better suited for a personal blog.
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I used the site as a way to dogfood the same CMS I used in my day job for over a decade
my enthusiasm for maintaining what's now a more enterprise-focused Digital Experience Platform or 'DXP' for a personal blog has waned
the blog is a passion project. I use it as a scratchpad for thoughts, and deeper dives
Since 2009, this website has run on Drupal. Starting with Drupal 6, and progressing through major site upgrades and migrations to 7, 8, 9, and 10, I used the site as a way to dogfood the same CMS (Content Management System) I used in my day job for over a
