Depends on what you’re doing with it. You could get away with a SSG for some use cases, but Wordpress with plugins can get pretty crazy and out of scope for simple SSGs.
Easy but intrusive option: disqus, most Hugo themes already support it and it doesn’t require a server
Hard but Foss: isso, it requires a vps as it’s in python, and literally zero Hugo themes support it so you have to edit their source to include it (not extremely hard, you just override the disqus part)
As someone who is running a simple WordPress portfolio / brochure style site, what are some alternatives?
Hugo
It doesn’t make sense for a site that gets new content 3-4 times a year to get generated from scratch to each single visitor
Depends on what you’re doing with it. You could get away with a SSG for some use cases, but Wordpress with plugins can get pretty crazy and out of scope for simple SSGs.
or if you want comments edit: self-hosted, not third-party
Easy but intrusive option: disqus, most Hugo themes already support it and it doesn’t require a server
Hard but Foss: isso, it requires a vps as it’s in python, and literally zero Hugo themes support it so you have to edit their source to include it (not extremely hard, you just override the disqus part)
yeah, i should specify self-hosted - if I wanted third party I could just use any old shit at all levels
there’s a ton of 'em
the sticking point will be a plugin or theme you depend on
third-party WP dev is extremely widely available, but not so much for other CMSes
Some kind of a community fork might happen, but I wouldn’t count on it.
there’s https://www.classicpress.net/ but it doesn’t have a ton of end users
If it’s a sinple site https://gohugo.io/ might be an option.
I saw someone suggest Publii today, but I’ve never used it