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Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG): Hugo and WordPress
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TechTea ☛ September 2026 Review | TechTea
This website is it is now using Hugo 0.163.3, it was using 0.151 before. I always use the newest version of Hugo available in my Linux distro’s repos locally, but I’m very slow to update the Netlify config as I really don’t like breaking things. I’ve finally fixed all the random deprecated function names (Hugo really needs to stabilize their API, they really love to rename functions) and removed random bits of HTML from old articles. I’m officially without any errors in my Hugo output at the moment. I’ve even added updates to articles that reference deprecated Hugo functions so they should still work.
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[Repeat] Nolan Lawson ☛ Goodbye WordPress
This blog has moved from WordPress.com to self-hosting. If you were following it via WordPress, you should use an RSS reader pointed at nolanlawson.com/feed instead.
WordPress has served me faithfully for 15 years, but I think it’s time to move on. A few things have nudged me in that direction: [...]
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James Cherti ☛ A better WordPress robots.txt and common mistakes to avoid
When legacy directives block crawlers from fetching JavaScript and CSS, search engines may not be able to render the page as users see it, which can affect visibility in search results.