Ive been hearing a lot about static sites lately. This post is a run down of all the steps I took to move my blog from blogger to a static site.
Before we begin, few gotchas
- My blog is relatively small. About 60 odd posts
- I decided to use Netlify as my CDN.
- Used Hugo to generate the static content.
- Used the PaperMod theme
Reasons why I decided to go to a static site
- Writing posts using just text files. Blogging as code! Hello vscode!
- Got bored with the layout of my current blog
- Wanted to get familiar with git
- Wanted to get familiar with markdown
Summary of all the steps I took to move my blog from blogger to a static site:
- I started by creating a free account on Netlify - https://www.netlify.com/
- Installed Hugo using homebrew - Further instructions here - https://gohugo.io/getting-started/quick-start/
- Created a repository on github.com - https://github.com/jahnin/unknownFault
- Cloned the repository locally.
- Created a new site using hugo:
hugo new site unknownfault -f yml - Downloaded and used the papermod theme from https://adityatelange.github.io/hugo-PaperMod/
cd unknownfault
git submodule add https://github.com/adityatelange/hugo-PaperMod.git themes/PaperMod --depth=1
- Customized the config.yml file using xcode and documentation from the PaperMod theme. To start, set the theme by editing config.yml
theme: "PaperMod"
- Exported my blog from blogger as an xml file.
- Used blog2md to extract and create blog posts in markdown format - https://github.com/palaniraja/blog2md
blog2md will create a folder with all of the posts and comments in separate text files, formatted in markdown. - You can test your site locally using the command
hugo server -D - Push changes back to the repository
git add *
git commit -m "Blog update"
git push origin main
- Create a new site using the github repository in netlify
- Publish site through netlify