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24 alternatives to I made a service to convert WordPress blogs to Hugo

Hi Hacker News! I made this project to read a WordPress export and create the markdown files for Hugo. It'll speed up the process of moving your blog over to Hugo and let you avoid a bunch of manual work. It came about when I was talking to somebody who was trying to move their site over and didn't want to manually copy and reformat all their posts. They had trouble finding a tool to do it, so I wrote one. I want to make sure it's useful to people before charging them, so it'll give you a download with 3 pages and 5 blog posts converted for free and without asking for any information. If you…

This service converts WordPress blog exports into markdown files formatted for Hugo, automating the migration process that would otherwise require manual reformatting of posts and pages. It's designed for bloggers… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    My partner usually writes substack posts which I then mirror to our website’s blog section. To automate this, I made a simple tool to scrape the post and clean it so that I can drop it to our blog easily. This might be useful to others as well. Oh and ofcourse you can instruct GPT to make any final edits :D

    2024 · markdowndown.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    Switch from Medium to your own blog in a few minutes - mathieudutour/medium-to-own-blog

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I built simple Git-based CMS for Hugo static site generators. No backend, no database, no configs. Just login with Github, select your repo and start editing. If you use Hugo for blogging, feel free to check it out at https://github.com/arashthr/hugo-flow > Why did you make it? I wanted to be able to write posts on my phone, and it's not easy to do that with Markdown. Adding images is also always a headache: copy them, minimize and compress them, remember the correct syntax for images, and type the path. > How did you make it? I used Google Stitch for the design and…

    May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I'm Rufus, one of the founders of Flowershow. We love markdown and use it everywhere from making websites, to docs, to knowledgebases. Plus AI splits it everywhere now. Got tired of the framework/config/deploy overhead every time we wanted to share a file or put a site online. So we built the thing we wanted. Files in. Website out. "Vercel for Content" is our aspiration - make deploying (markdown) content as fast, seamless and easy as Vercel did for JS. Command line plus you can connect to github repos, use Obsidian via plugin, or drag and drop files. npm i -g…

    Mar 2026 · flowershow.app · its alternatives →

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    Convert text to markdown for LLMs like ChatGPT

    2025 · copyasmarkdown.com · its alternatives →

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    Edit videos as easily as editing plain text. Script videos using Markdown files in minutes.

    2020 · videopuppet.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! I originally built “html-to-markdown” back in 2018 (while still in high school) to handle complex HTML conversions where other libraries struggled. Now, I’ve released v2 — a complete rewrite designed to handle even more edge cases. It supports entire websites with a high accuracy. Example use: I’ve used it in my RSS reader to strip HTML down to clean Markdown, similar to the "Reader Mode" in your Browser. It can be used as a Golang package or as an CLI. Give it a try & tell me what edge cases you encounter!

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A cli tool to convert and manage jupyter notebook blogs. Proudly host your notebooks even as a static site. - GitHub - hemanta212/blogger-cli: A cli tool to convert and manage jupyter notebook blogs. Proudly host your notebooks even as a static site.

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    plok.sh▲328

    Github to blog. Instantly. Free forever.

    Nov 2025 · plok.sh · its alternatives →

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    A simple CLI tool to migrate from Wordpress to Gatsby.

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Markdown conversion tool for the AI era.

    2025 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, maker here. It was a serious 4-6 months of effort to build this. I have never poured as much love, attention and detail into a project before. So I really appreciate you having a looksie! The homepage has a fresh list of articles every hour and is open to all. Still, I recommend signing up so you can add stuff to your reading list and follow blogs. My initial plan was to monetize this with subtle ads, but that didn't work out as the traffic to the site isn't nearly enough for that. That said, I have a fair bit invested in this and I need your help figuring out a way to make this…

    2023 · boredreading.com · its alternatives →

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    DOM to Semantic-Markdown for use with LLMs. Contribute to romansky/dom-to-semantic-markdown development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Convert a Google Drive Document to the Markdown format, suitable for publishing. - mangini/gdocs2md

    2013 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Transform any document, web page, or eBook into a research paper (ChatGPT not required) - jstrieb/paperify

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Markdown as Web Page/Site. Contribute to casualwriter/casual-markdown-page development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Convert the page content of any blogging page into markdown.

    2020 · url-to-markdown.herokuapp.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN I built MarkdownConverters.com — a tool that converts any file format (PDF, DOCX, PPTX, HTML, or URL) into clean, structured Markdown. I often needed to prep documents, reports, or scraped pages for AI pipelines, documentation, or version control, but existing tools either broke formatting, lost code blocks, or produced unreadable Markdown. So I built something that focuses on: • Accurate structure (headings, lists, tables, code, links) • Consistent Markdown output ready for LLMs or docs • Fast, browser-based conversion with privacy-friendly processing • Support for multi-format and…

    2025 · markdownconverters.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I built a free Markdown to HTML converter that solves a pain I kept running into with AI-generated content. For years, I relied on tools like ChatGPT and Claude to draft blog posts, but the Markdown they produced often broke existing converters. Instead of standard "*" or "-" for lists, I'd get odd symbols like ":" or "•". The converter would fail, leaving me to manually fix formatting every single time. It was frustrating and time-consuming. So I decided to build my own: Markdownhtmlgen.com. Key features: - Converts Markdown to HTML that actually works with AI-generated quirks -…

    2025 · markdownhtmlgen.com · its alternatives →

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    This project allows you to easily add a nice looking, mobile-friendly blog to your existing NextJS app without a lot of heavy dependencies or complex stuff to configure. You just set up a repo on GitHub with some markdown files with some metadata at the top, and it will automatically retrieve and convert the markdown to rich html/css blog posts that works well with SEO. I made it for my own webapp because I wanted something simple and easy and didn't want to deal with a complex library/system that does tons of stuff I don't care about.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Converts webpage to markdown for free

    2025 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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