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Show HN: I made a service to convert WordPress blogs to Hugo

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Post by symkat »

Hi Hacker News!

I made this project to read a WordPress export and create the markdown files for Hugo. It'll speed up the process of moving your blog over to Hugo and let you avoid a bunch of manual work.

It came about when I was talking to somebody who was trying to move their site over and didn't want to manually copy and reformat all their posts. They had trouble finding a tool to do it, so I wrote one.

I want to make sure it's useful to people before charging them, so it'll give you a download with 3 pages and 5 blog posts converted for free and without asking for any information. If you like what you see, there is a one-time charge through Stripe to convert everything.

I hope you find it useful, and I welcome any and all feedback on it!

Thanks for reading!

Show HN: I made a service to convert WordPress blogs to Hugo
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Re: Show HN: I made a service to convert WordPress blogs to Hugo

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Post by toomuchtodo »

JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B wrote: post #4

Good. But I do wonder why we're flooded with "services" like that when a simple open-source Python script could do this. $150 FFS. I hope you have clients but the open-source dev inside me is dying a bit. Edit: 413 Request Entity Too Large.

People pay to have their problems solved, not code (although code is one of the ways to solve some problems!). If you made such a service for free, that's great! It's helpful, it scratches an itch to build you have, it is a net positive to put it into the world. Importantly, non technical people want their hand held and usually, are willing to pay for it. Something to consider. There is room for both solutions and code, based on bucketing of use cases and personas.

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Post by BryantD »

JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B wrote: post #4

Good. But I do wonder why we're flooded with "services" like that when a simple open-source Python script could do this. $150 FFS. I hope you have clients but the open-source dev inside me is dying a bit. Edit: 413 Request Entity Too Large.

https://github.com/ashishb/wp2hugo is pretty good. That said I think there's probably room for a good solution that doesn't require command line proficiency.

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Post by JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #5
JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B wrote: post #4

Good. But I do wonder why we're flooded with "services" like that when a simple open-source Python script could do this. $150 FFS. I hope you have clients but the open-source dev inside me is dying a bit. Edit: 413 Request Entity Too Large.

People pay to have their problems solved, not code (although code is one of the ways to solve some problems!). If you made such a service for free, that's great! It's helpful, it scratches an itch to build you have, it is a net positive to put it into the world. Importantly, non technical people want their hand held and usually, are willing to pay for it. Something to consider. There is room for both solutions and co…

> non technical people want their hand held

I know but I'm still not happy about it. Also Hugo is not what I would call a WYSIWYG application like Wordpress, so...

Re: Show HN: I made a service to convert WordPress blogs to Hugo

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Post by toomuchtodo »

GlacierFox wrote: post #7

$150 haha. Wtf.

This is ~1 hour of software engineer, ~2 hours of technology generalist time. Time is non renewable, and humans have a cost. If you're an agency, business, whatever, and have the need to make something WP static via Hugo, this is a reasonable cost to solve the problem quick.
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