Nearly six years ago, I finally said goodbye to WordPress and switched to a static site generator called Hugo. It was the perfect solution as it eliminated all the security risks associated with WordPress in one fell swoop, and also dramatically increased the performance of the blog due to the resulting static website.
Another significant advantage was that I could write my posts in Markdown, which automatically generated more attractive output. Over time, I made several optimizations to the configuration and, especially, to the theme. The latter might not have been the most elegant, but it visually suited me and was functionally optimized to the maximum for search engine optimization and automated semantic evaluations using RDFa. As a result, I consistently appeared at the top of search engine results. An automatically generated sitemap even allowed for perfect evaluation of subpages by search engines. One of the best, though sadly underused features, was the multilingual capability, which allowed me to publish some articles in English as well.
After some consideration about whether it really makes sense to continue writing my small blog in handwritten HTML files, I decided that it might be a good idea to switch to a static website generator. That’s why I’ve now opted for Hugo. In the coming time, it will become clear whether and how much better Hugo is.
It’s also nice that I can finally use simple Markdown here. Although I’ve
noticed that with this theme, the following elements do not work in the
preview or overview of the posts: