For a long time, my personal website ran on WordPress. It’s a powerful platform with a vast ecosystem, but over time, I found myself wanting something simpler, faster, and more aligned with how I prefer to work as a software engineer. That led me to migrate the site to a new stack: Hugo as the static site generator and Cloudflare Pages for hosting.

Why Migrate from WordPress?

WordPress helped me achievev an attractive look and feel and dynamic content like presenting Youtube videos from my channel or managing my publications, but I encountered a few drawbacks for my personal site: