I moved this personal blog to a static site from Wordpress tonight, mostly on a whim.
If this was 10 years ago, I’d have written out a step-by-step instructions of exports and one-off migration scripts but since this is 2026, this is a much more anticlimatic post.
Instead, using Claude Code, I essentially said, “Here is an export from my wordpress site. Make a static site with a clean, simple layout, preserving the current URL structure.” A few minutes later, after asking me a few questions like which generator to use (I went with Hugo), I had a new site. That was it. Magical!
I then quizzed Claude on the best place to host a static site, and it suggested Cloudflare Pages. Setting up the GitHub hook so that a git push automatically triggers a new site build took a couple of minutes but that was the bulk of the complexity. Cloudflare has a very easy to use DNS migration wizard. Even though that’s always a little scary, the switchover worked fine.
I have to say: building software with Claude is fun. I had stepped away from writing code for the better part of a decade and stepping away for a few weeks usually means new languages, libraries, tools, and services to research and learn how to use. Even when I had the itch to build something, the starting cost was huge and I just wouldn’t. Now, I can just describe what I want to see and off it goes. Excited to keep doing this more.