Add Ghost content to Hugo

Mar 31, 2021

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! 🎉🎉🎉