Duplicator a Wordpress plugin for site migration

Posted on May 23, 2018

Wordpress migration to a new host and a new domain is tricky!

To move a problematic site I used Duplicator a plugin that did all the heavy lifting of changing the configuration settings, fix the db serialized strings, apply some legacy conversion to the queries and other stuff.

Without the plugin a manual migration was almost impossible.

Kudos to the authors.

#wordpress  #plugin 

Migrate Wordpress to Hugo

Migration of old sites and articles to Hugo

Posted on March 1, 2018

Jekyll Exporter (github page) is a plugin that will export everything from WordPress to Jekyll. There is also WordPress to Hugo Exporter but I choose the one for jekyll because the plugin is already available in the WordPress plugins. A good amount of work is still needed to fix the results so I didn’t bother. Change wordpress site URL The old site url is not available. I created a new CNAME in the DNS. [Read More]
#hugo  #wordpress