Comment by random_savv
4 hours ago
I am so happy that I asked Codex to rewrite our website as Hugo templates which allowed us to statically host it and get rid of Wordpress. So much stress gone!
4 hours ago
I am so happy that I asked Codex to rewrite our website as Hugo templates which allowed us to statically host it and get rid of Wordpress. So much stress gone!
You can make the most intricate drag and drop admin interfaces to allow the editor to customize everything, and they will still call you to put up every post, so might as well go static
Codex wrote you a website, or wrote you a pluggable CMS usable and configurable by non-coders?
When I finally got approval to rewrite the company blog from Wordpress into something that was mostly static, it was the best week. I used PHP to do mobile/desktop and language selection, because PHP is pretty useful, and it can be pretty fast and secure if you only do simple things.
Never had to worry again about sequencing updates where the update changed the database schema and I had a cluster of 6 web servers. Never had to worry anymore about long ass load times because the web servers were in 3 colos and wordpress wouldn't play nice with local read only mysql replicas. No more worries about why pingbacks and comments keep showing up in the database even those those features were turned off; at least they weren't showing up in a moderation queue, but still.
Is there a good replacement for wordpress comments? That's the one thing holding me back from porting at the moment.
I had the same itch when I ported my personal blog from WordPress to Astro. I built a fully customisable self-hosted comment system called Discuss. It's got a dashboard and tokenized UI customisation. Pretty light weight too. It's available here - https://github.com/karthikeyankc/discuss . Do give it a spin or fork it. Would love to hear your feedback.
Yes! https://comments.purecommons.org/
I think you can render Disqus on static websites, but Disqus is its own piece of crap so not sure you'd want to.
Sorry in advance if you were joking, but for readers who aren't in the know: Hugo had, in fact, two 9.3 CVSS vulnerabilities just 11 days ago...
https://app.opencve.io/cve/CVE-2026-89259
https://app.opencve.io/cve/CVE-2026-89258
To be clear, those are CVEs in the tooling, not in the generated static sites. Not great, but very different from this WordPress CVE
I have full control over the inputs for hugo and the output is pure static HTML. It's better if there are no CVEs but I really don't sweat these. My Hugo template runs 100% pure CSS and no JS.
This thread is fucking unhinged