Add Ghost content to Hugo

2021-03-31

Ghost CMS is very easy to use, but the deployment overhead (maintaining db, ghost version, updates and etc) might be too much for some. Luckily, there's a way to convert a Ghost site to static pages, which you can later host on Github pages or something similar.

Setup

static site engine: Hugo
a Ghost instance

Usage

Install https://github.com/Fried-Chicken/ghost-static-site-generator
cd to static directory in your Hugo folder
run

gssg --domain ${YOUR_GHOST_INSTANCE_URL} --dest posts --url ${YOUR_STATIC_SITE_DOMAIN_WITHOUT_TRAILING_SLASH} --subDir posts

Update your hugo config to link to the above folder:

[[menu.main]]
    identifier = "posts"
    name       = "Posts"
    url        = "/posts"

All done! 🎉🎉🎉