From WordPress to Hugo

Why?

So I can move from shared hosting to static file hosting with Netlify or Firebase and not have to maintain a WordPress site.

How?

Export content from WordPress with https://github.com/SchumacherFM/wordpress-to-hugo-exporter. This WordPress plug-in made me a .zip file with all my posts converted to .md files and my uploads folder of images
Move all the .md files into the new Hugo site’s content/posts folder
Move WordPress’s uploads folder to Hugo’s static folder
Eat lunch
Test new Hugo site and find issues

Write a config file. Copy all the options from https://gohugo.io/getting-started/configuration/#yaml-configuration and wittle them down to what I need like this

baseURL: http://kb.imakewebsites.ca
googleAnalytics: [my uid here]
permalinks:
  post: /:year/:month/:title/
sitemap:
  changefreq: monthly
  priority: 0.5
  filename: sitemap.xml
theme: ananke
title: Knowledge Base

Fix lack of syntax highlighting by installing prism.js and doing a search and replace to change code like
```
<pre><code class="language-js">
[sample code here]
</code></pre>
```
into
```
```js
[sample code here]
```
```
Fix character encoding issues like < being replaced with > unnecessarily in code samples
Manually add featured_image info to front-matter for posts because that field wasn’t included in the WordPress export.
Add _index.md file with content for homepage to /content directory so that the homepage has some content
Restart on theme, using https://themes.gohugo.io/blank/ as a base
Submit a PR to fix blank theme’s filtering issue
Copy a bunch of CSS from http://www.imakewebsites.ca to style the blank theme (which has a surprisingly similar HTML structure to my own site)