Moving From WordPress to an Azure Static Site with Hugo

I’ve moved from WordPress to an Azure Static website built with Hugo. The conversion, including grooming all my old posts and a special setup for my free courses took up most of my personal time for a week (including a 4 day weekend).

Here’s why I made the change. I’ll also share the basic components I chose for my site, the tools and steps I used in the conversion, and some lessons learned from the implementation.

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Adding a Downloadable Calendar Event File to Wordpress without a Plugin

Let’s say you’ll be doing an event soon – say a Facebook Live event– and you want to create a calendar reminder for folks to download. Lots of us live and die by calendar invites, so this can be helpful to get people to attend.

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My Wordpress Setup: Canvas, MailChimp, GravityForms and Other Tools

I recently gave LittleKendra.com a bit of a refresh. I wanted the website to be colorful, personal, and approachable.

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