Shifting Gears
Well I've completely switched away from using Hugo. Thanks to a post from Jack Baty I decided to check out pureblog by Kev Quirk and it's pretty much exactly what I've been trying to create with Hugo.
Pureblog is PHP and has a nice admin screen with just the right amount of settings and customizability. It handles markdown files with yaml frontmatter so I was able to import all of my existing posts and all I had to do was a quick sed through my old posts to update the draft status wording in the frontmatter to get everything working.
I also picked up a new blog to follow.