Migrating a Hugo site from Forestry to Tina
I launched the current version of my website a year ago. Having become a developer advocate in 2021, I didn’t think a WordPress site that hadn’t been updated in a decade would cut it any more. I wanted to do something a bit more modern. At my previous company, I’d built a developer portal on Hugo. The company ended up hosting the site itself, but I’d had discussions with Netlify and Forestry at the time. And I’d been using GitHub for my big open source projects for a long time. I picked a free Hugo starter theme from Themefisher that had built-in support for Netlify and Forestry. I spent a weekend on it: setting up the site structure, customizing the theme and adding content. I didn’t have all the features at first (search, tags and RSS came later), but it was a huge step up from my old site.
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