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title: "Moving my blog from Nikola to Hugo"
date: 2019-04-27T22:53:24-06:00
tags:
- blog
- nikola
- hugo
- go
- server
draft: false
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After some research I've determined that Nikola was too painful to use as a blogging engine. Entering a virt environment, mainting all that code and keeping it updated was tedious and it doesn't run on my espressobin. Hugo is my replacement of choice. Written in go it compiles into one binary and it runs on my espressobin. It works the same, I create the site on my remote machine, write posts in markdown, run hugo to pack it all up into a static site and send it to the server. Nice. Now to figure out a theme.....
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The [terminal](https://github.com/panr/hugo-theme-terminal) theme fits what I'm blogging about best.
One issue that I had with hugo that I have since fixed was weird post summaries on the main page. To fix this use manual summary by adding
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at the end of the portion wanted in the summary.