Porting a Template from WordPress to Hugo

2024-01-04 8 min read Geek Marco

Static Site Generators (SSG) are all the rage and are quickly becoming viable alternative to heavier Content Management Systems (CMS) like WordPress. I switched sites from WordPress to Hugo, one of the leadings SSG sites, but wanted to keep the site look and feel the same. To do so, I needed to port the theme I had used on WordPress. This article shows how to go about it if you want to do the same. Continue reading

Introducing the Dayada Encoding

2023-12-01 5 min read Programming Marco

Imagine you need to transfer small chunks of binary data over a channel that doesn’t like binary of any kind. You want to disguise it as regular text, maybe in a language the text processor/forwarder cannot analyze. That’s exactly what the Dayada encoding does. Continue reading

Adding Search to a HUGO Site

2023-11-11 10 min read Site Programming Marco

One function that is harder to do without a database backend, as static sites don’t, is search. With WordPress, search is baked into the core and all templates have to do is not get in the way. But on a static site, there is no backend to call, no infrastructure to invoke, and no user interface to show.

Static sites have gotten around this by using third party search providers. Basically, you add some third party code to your site and then magic happens. There are two options on how to do it: