This section highlights some projects around Hugo that are independently developed. These tools try to extend the functionality of our static site generator or help you to get started.
> **Note:** Do you know or maintain a similar project around Hugo? Feel free to open a [pull request](https://github.com/spf13/hugo/pulls) on GitHub if you think it should be added.
Take a look at this list of migration tools if you currently use other blogging tools like Jekyll or WordPress but intend to switch to Hugo instead. They'll take care to export
Alternatively, you can follow the manual [migration guide]({{< relref "tutorials/migrate-from-jekyll.md" >}}) or use the new [Jekyll import command]({{< relref "commands/hugo_import_jekyll.md" >}}).
- [wordpress-to-hugo-exporter](https://github.com/SchumacherFM/wordpress-to-hugo-exporter) - A one-click WordPress plugin that converts all posts, pages, taxonomies, metadata, and settings to Markdown and YAML which can be dropped into Hugo. (Note: If you have trouble using this plugin, you can [export your site for Jekyll](https://wordpress.org/plugins/jekyll-exporter/) and use Hugo's built in Jekyll converter listed above.)
- [tumblr2hugomarkdown](https://github.com/Wysie/tumblr2hugomarkdown) - Export all your Tumblr content to Hugo Markdown files with preserved original formatting.
- [contentful2hugo](https://github.com/ArnoNuyts/contentful2hugo) - A tool to create content-files for Hugo from content on [Contentful](https://www.contentful.com/).
If you don't want to use [Wercker for automated deployments]({{< relref "tutorials/automated-deployments.md" >}}), give these tools a try to get your content to the public:
- [hugomac](https://github.com/nickoneill/hugomac) - Hugomac is an OS X menubar app to publish your blog directly to Amazon S3. No command line is needed.
- [hugo-lambda](https://github.com/ryansb/hugo-lambda) - A wrapper around the Hugo static site generator to have it run in AWS Lambda whenever new (Markdown or other) content is uploaded.
- [hugodeploy](https://github.com/mindok/hugodeploy) - Simple SFTP deployment tool for static websites (e.g. created by Hugo) with optional minification.
- [rango](https://github.com/stayradiated/rango) - A web frontend for Hugo. It's designed to make it easy to manage a small site, even for people with little computer experience.
- [enwrite](https://github.com/zzamboni/enwrite) - Evernote-powered statically-generated blogs and websites. Now posting to your blog or updating your website is as easy as writing a new note in Evernote!
- [caddy-hugo](https://github.com/hacdias/caddy-hugo) - This is an add-on for [Caddy](https://caddyserver.com/) which wants to deliver a good UI to edit the content of the website.
A static site with a dynamic search function? Yes. Alternatively to embeddable scripts from Google or other search engines you can provide your visitors a custom search by indexing your content files directly.
- [Hugoidx](https://github.com/blevesearch/hugoidx) is an experimental application to create a search index. It's build on top of [Bleve](http://www.blevesearch.com/).
- This [GitHub Gist](https://gist.github.com/sebz/efddfc8fdcb6b480f567) contains simple workflow to create a search index for your static site. It uses a simple Grunt script to index all your content files and [lunr.js](http://lunrjs.com/) to serve the search results.
- [hugo-lunr](https://www.npmjs.com/package/hugo-lunr) - A simple way to add site search to your static Hugo site using [lunr.js](http://lunrjs.com/). Hugo-lunr will create an index file of any html and markdown documents in your Hugo project.
- [Algolia](https://www.algolia.com/)'s Search API makes it easy to deliver a great search experience in your apps & websites. Algolia Search provides hosted full-text, numerical, faceted and geolocalized search.
- [Appernetic.io](https://appernetic.io) is a Hugo Static Site Generator as a Service that is easy to use for non-technical users.
Features: inline PageDown editor, visual tree view, image upload and digital asset management with Cloudinary, site preview, continuous integration with GitHub, atomic deploy and hosting, Git and Hugo integration, autosave, custom domain, project syncing, theme cloning and management. Developers have complete control over the source code and can manage it with GitHub’s deceptively simple workflow.
- [Netlify.com](https://www.netlify.com), builds, deploy & hosts your static site or app (Hugo, Jekyll etc). Build, deploy and host your static site or app with a drag and drop interface and automatic deploys from GitHub or Bitbucket.
Features: global CDN, atomic deploys, ultra fast DNS, instant cache invalidation, high availability, automated hosting, Git integration, form submission hooks, authentication providers, custom domain. Developers have complete control over the source code and can manage it with GitHub’s or Bitbuckets deceptively simple workflow.
- [Forestry.io](https://forestry.io/) - A simple CMS for Jekyll and Hugo sites with an integration of GitHub and Bitbucket. Everytime an update is made via the CMS, Forestry will compile your site and deploy it to your host (S3, GitHub Pages, FTP, etc).
- [hugo-openapispec-shortcode](https://github.com/tenfourty/hugo-openapispec-shortcode) A shortcode which allows you to include [Open API Spec](https://openapis.org) (formerly known as Swagger Spec) in a page.
