# News Website Wordpress to Hugo

**URL:** <https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/news-website-wordpress-to-hugo/39534>\
**Category:** Showcases\
**Created:** [July 16, 2022, 11:45pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/news-website-wordpress-to-hugo/39534 "2022-07-16T23:45:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![crhodgson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@crhodgson](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/crhodgson)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2022, 11:45pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/news-website-wordpress-to-hugo/39534/1 "2022-07-16T23:45:51Z")

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Just adding my Hugo based news website [https://viewnews.com.au](https://viewnews.com.au) to the showcase. Was Wordpress now converted to Hugo

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**Author:** ![gaetawoo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/gaetawoo/32/16789_2.png) [@gaetawoo](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/gaetawoo)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2022, 12:16am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/news-website-wordpress-to-hugo/39534/2 "2022-07-17T00:16:27Z")

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Very cool. It’s a bit slow on the load, where is it hosted?

Why did you switch from WordPress? I’m always curious

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**Author:** ![crhodgson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@crhodgson](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/crhodgson)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2022, 12:24am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/news-website-wordpress-to-hugo/39534/3 "2022-07-17T00:24:59Z")

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Hi, thanks for the feedback.

I think I need to look at the size of the images.

It’s hosted in Google Cloud (Sydney) using Firebase.

It’s a work in progress. Looking to learn off others doing similar things.

I switched initially to reduce hosting costs and ironically to try and speed the site up. Also to simplify the number of moving parts, database, PHP, Wordpress and improve security. Straight from the Hugo brochure I suppose.

Cheers

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**Author:** ![gaetawoo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/gaetawoo/32/16789_2.png) [@gaetawoo](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/gaetawoo)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2022, 2:05am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/news-website-wordpress-to-hugo/39534/4 "2022-07-17T02:05:43Z")

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> [@crhodgson](#):
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> I switched initially to reduce hosting costs and ironically to try and speed the site up. Also to simplify the number of moving parts, database, PHP, Wordpress and improve security. Straight from the Hugo brochure I suppose.

All good reasons. Good luck!

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**Author:** ![iaeiou](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/iaeiou/32/15332_2.png) [@iaeiou](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/iaeiou)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2022, 11:45am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/news-website-wordpress-to-hugo/39534/5 "2022-07-17T11:45:34Z")

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Congratulations for this migration!

You should optimize the pictures, some of them are way too heavy [according to Google Lighthouse](https://googlechrome.github.io/lighthouse/viewer/?psiurl=https%3A//viewnews.com.au/&strategy=mobile&category=performance&category=accessibility&category=best-practices&category=seo&category=pwa).  
For that, I use [Squoosh](https://squoosh.app/) when I just have a few pictures, or [XnConvert](https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.xnview.XnConvert) for bulk transformations.

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**Author:** ![bwintx](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/bwintx/32/10450_2.png) [@bwintx](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/bwintx)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2022, 3:34pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/news-website-wordpress-to-hugo/39534/6 "2022-07-17T15:34:52Z")

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> I think I need to look at the size of the images.

You can use Hugo for that, too: [Image processing | Hugo](https://gohugo.io/content-management/image-processing/)

If you prefer a faster solution, you could see whether your needs are served by [Cloudinary](https://cloudinary.com)’s free tier.