My blog

Aeons ago I started with Movable Type, then switched to Wordpress. Now I'd like to take away a ton of dependencies and just let it run by a static site generator.

At the moment, Hugo in combination with Netlify seems like a compelling solution to simplify my life.

Steps to export and convert the data

Export an XML file from the WordPress admin interface. Probably you only want the posts, not everything.
Clone the exitwp repository by issuing git clone https://github.com/thomasf/exitwp.git ~/Dev/exitwp in your terminal. This piece of fine software converts a WordPress export to a bunch of Markdown files and also grabs (most of) the images.
Copy the exported XML file to the path where exitwp would like to have it: cp ~/Downloads/*.xml ~/Dev/exitwp/wordpress-xml
Run exitwp: cd ~/Dev/exitwp/ && python2.7 exitwp.py (If you set download_images: True in config.yaml you should also get (most of) the images).
You now get an export of the site in ~/Dev/exitwp/build/jekyll/habi.gna.ch.

Start a new hugo site with cd ~/Dev && hugo new site blog --force. This only has to be done the first time...
cd blog
git submodule add https://github.com/budparr/gohugo-theme-ananke.git themes/ananke
echo 'theme = "ananke"' >> config.toml
Edit config.toml to taste.
Now unzip the hugo-export.zip file from above.
Copy all the posts from the exported directory to the blog directory: mkdir -p ~/Dev/blog/content/posts && cp ~/Dev/exitwp/build/jekyll/habi.gna.ch/_posts/* ~/Dev/blog/content/posts/
Copy all the images from the exitwp directory to the blog directory: mkdir -p ~/Dev/blog/static/images && cp ~/Dev/exitwp/build/jekyll/habi.gna.ch/images/*/*.* ~/Dev/blog/static/images/. We move the images from their subfolder to a single new folder.
Now you should have a (semi)working hugo blog, test it with cd ~/Dev/blog && hugo server. All images are still served from their original URLs.

Follow this guide
Set up DNS, e.g. set the following in the admin panel of cyon. Netlify tells us to do blog CNAME very-fancy-strings-with-numbers.netlify.com