Migrate from Hexo

Before migrating

Back up the Hexo source, configuration, data, and public assets. Make a clean Hugo site build before moving content.

Map the site model

• Move root and theme settings into Hugo standard configuration and params.solitude.
• Replace updated with lastmod; map categories, tags, series, aliases, and permalinks to Hugo Front Matter.
• Put posts under content/posts/ and site-owned static files under static/.
• Replace {% ... %} Hexo tags with matching Hugo shortcodes.
• Rebuild About, Links, Equipment, and Brevity data from exampleSite/data.
• Configure search and comments from the Hugo integration pages instead of copying plugins.

Preserve URLs deliberately

Use Front Matter aliases or Hugo redirects for old paths. Build with hugo --gc --minify, compare output URLs, then test navigation, search, comments, RSS, Sitemap, and feature pages.

The Hugo edition intentionally does not emulate removed Hexo fields at runtime.