Antiparos Homes – Luxury Villa Website Migrated from WordPress to Hugo

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Hi everyone,
I’l like to share a recent project our team at Zeon Studio completed for Antiparos Homes, a luxury villas and holiday homes provider on the island of Antiparos, Greece.

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Project Scope & Goals

The project involved a complete redesign and technical rebuild of the client’s existing WordPress site, with a strong focus on:

  • Faster performance on mobile and desktop

  • A more stable, secure architecture

  • Easy content management and long-term scalability

  • Clean, modern design aligned with Cycladic aesthetics

  • SEO improvements + structured page hierarchy

  • Better gallery performance for photo-heavy pages

  • Smooth booking experience with Beds24

  • Multilingual handling using professionally translated content

What We Built

1. High-performance Hugo architecture

  • Rebuilt the entire site in Hugo

  • Optimized asset pipeline

  • Fast-loading image + video galleries

  • Lighthouse score improved dramatically — nearly 100% on desktop

2. Migration from WordPress

  • Matched the original layout while modernising structure

  • Rewrote components in modular Hugo partials

  • Improved maintainability for future changes

3. SEO & multilingual optimization

  • GA4 + Consent Mode v2 integration

  • Human-translated titles preserved (no auto-translation)

  • Clean URLs for all house pages for SEO (reflecting real product names)

  • Structured content for search engines

4. Booking system integration

  • Persistent Book Now and WhatsApp CTA on all pages

  • Beds24 integrated, with future option for a fully redesigned booking page

  • Widget rules prepared for occupancy limits

5. Hosting setup

  • Configured GitHub + Azure deployment

  • Ensured CDN-level speed and cache optimization

We’d love to hear your thoughts.
Thanks, Hugo community! :raising_hands:

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Amazing website you’ve built! :+1: :+1: :+1:

Is there any chance to see your code? I want to review your code for learning purposes.

I just saw that your site has different page layouts and sections (like a landing page style). I’m curious how you built those pages. Are they just hard-coded in HTML/CSS, or are they more dynamic using Hugo shortcodes?

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Nice! One question I have — are you maintaining content by simply editing Hugo’s text files? The reason I ask is, I’ve a number of small businesses using Wordpress and I hate having to deal with their messes. However, the thought of giving none-technically-savvy people Hugo to work with fills me with dread (yes, I find it far simpler than a GUI, but I’m a former Unix engineer turned marketer, so I don’t count as the typical none-techie customer I have :smiley: ) I’ve thought about looking into CMS frontends for Hugo, but I wonder if then I’m just taking one mess and making another.

If you have experience of guiding none technical folks how to maintain their content in Hugo, I’d love to hear about that experience.

Many thanks for sharing your story nonetheless! :smiling_face:

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Unfortunately, I can’t share the source code since it’s a private project, but you can check this starter template, GitHub - zeon-studio/hugoplate: Hugoplate is a free starter template built with Hugo and Tailwind CSS v4.0 that will save you hours of work., which was used as a base.

For the layouts, I think they used both shortcodes and hard-coded HTML/CSS. I’ll ask the dev to confirm and let you know.

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This is a very common issue. Developers love Hugo. But non-technical clients want something easier for managing content.

To answer your question:

  • Some use Markdown.

  • Some use a CMS like Sitepins.

  • And some just ask us to handle the updates for them.

We built Sitepins exactly for the use case you mentioned.
We noticed many developers struggle when handing off a Hugo site to clients.
Sitepins is a simple Git-based CMS for people who prefer visual editing. It’s easy to setup and use. Its a web-based app. You just need to connect your repository it will give you manage the content visually.

Feel free to check it out. It’s still in beta, so any feedback would be super helpful.

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Nice! Thank you. I shall take a look :+1:

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