+1 We recently built 3-4 websites in hugo and highly recommend it.
Some samples: vizitorapp.netlify.com www.famstar.in On Tue, Feb 7, 2023, 23:37 Michael Brohl <michael.br...@ecomify.de> wrote: > Dear community, > > In the course of getting Wiebke to be able to help with our blog, it > turned out that Apache Roller will be discontinued as the platform for > blogs by infra [1]. > > There is an offer and already a pull request [2] to export the existing > blog posts for a migration to Hugo [3]. > Hugo is a static site generator which will generate individual pages > from every markdown blog posts file which is provided in the PR. > > That means we need to (at least) > > - setup a Hugo project > - build up templates for the blog posts which also include header and > footer for full page rendering > (hence, we have to take over some of the templates/html > code/javascrip/CSS to Hugo as well) > - generate the post pages and include them in the website under /blog. > > These are quite some steps we have to take anyway and I ask myself if we > should not switch over to Hugo for the whole website as well. > That should be not too difficult because we already have some kind of > templates (in php) and there is already some sectioning with header, > content, footer etc. > > The advantages would be > > - to truly separate content from the templates (it is now mixed > php/content) > - blog posts can be generated from OFBiz commits and, together with page > content, be send in by pull requests > - content automation (no need to change the copyright year manually, > automated taxonimies for the blog etc.) > - easy process for a git supported writing process for pages and blog > posts and a fast and automatable publishing process (git hooks or GitHub > integration). > > Coincidence: I am on a journey to migrate the ecomify websites to Hugo > we have at least some knowledge there (maybe others as well?). > > To sum up, I propose to migrate our blog and also the Apache OFBiz > website to be an integrated, Hugo based website. > > Opinions? > > Best regards, > > Michael Brohl > > ecomify GmbH - www.ecomify.de > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-22461 > [2] https://github.com/apache/ofbiz-site/pull/8/files > [3] https://gohugo.io/ > >