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Creating a Blog with Hugo
Thom Greene
@tbgree00
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Static Website Generator
Local editing, local builds
Open source, no upfront costs
Written in Markdown, generates HTML
What Is Hugo?
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Reduce Costs for Maintaining Blog
Offline Editing
Hundreds of Templates
Why Use Hugo?
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Access to a Linux, Mac, or Windows OS
Static HTML Compatible Hosting (Github Pages, S3)
Content
Markdown and Git
Getting Started
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Install Hugo
GoHugo.i
o
Quick Start
Left Navigation
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Secure Hosting
Github
Pages
S3
Gitlab
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Hugo new site
Content
Themes
Creating the Site Files
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Install a Theme
Hugo new postpostname.md
Test, then Push
Site Creation Lightning Round
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Themes into Themes Folder
Themes
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Configuration
Parameters
Accounts
Config.toml
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Hugo new posthellovbb.md
Frontmatter = Metadata
Saved in Architypes >
Defaults
Create Content
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Hugo Server
Git Submodule ( or
copy/paste from public
folder)
Commit
Test and Push
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