Hugo on

Blog Redesign 2026

christoph.stoettner@stoeps.de (Christoph Stoettner) — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 18:28:05 +0200

After attending the session Der eigene Blog mit Hugo - Ein Praxisbeispiel by Tobi Heine at the Chemnitz Linux Days 2026, I was curious to work on the blog again.

Automate hugo

christoph.stoettner@stoeps.de (Christoph Stoettner) — Mon, 30 Dec 2019 14:19:52 +0100

Mid 2018 I switched my blog from Wordpress to Hugo. Main reason was performance and that I can use Asciidoctor to write the posts.

What happened the last 18 months? I stayed with the theme I selected 2018, but I tweaked it a little bit. So I added lunr to implement searching, changed all scripts and fonts from CDN to local (privacy and tracking), updated Bootstrap 3 to 4.

Working with Bootstrap was quite fun, I haven’t done a lot of HTML or CSS the last years, but the grid and css classes from Bootstrap are working without checking each change on all browsers and are responsive.

New Blog Engine

christoph.stoettner@stoeps.de (Christoph Stoettner) — Sat, 14 Jul 2018 14:15:09 +0200

I switched my blog to Hugo the last days. After nearly 12 years with WordPress, I needed something new. Why did I drop WordPress, one of the most used blog engines in the world?

Most used means always most interesting for bad guys. Dynamic pages are slower and can contain more vulnerabilities than static pages (which Hugo generates). Hugo supports git, so I have version control in my posts and design. I can start a small web server locally and test the posts: hugo server -D and the most convenient thing: I can use VIM for editing.