Hugo Post Formatting Basics

Frontmatter There are some standard Hugo frontmatter, but there’s also a lot of theme-specific frontmatter. In this post I might be referring to theme-specific frontmatter that you won’t find in another theme. But the general idea of frontmatters is universal. You can add tags: [swift, json, network call] and it will then add the tags to your post. Add showToc: true and will show a table of contents for your post....

May 3, 2024 · 3 min

Hugo High Level

This is the 2nd post of “Everything I learned from blogging with Hugo” series Why Hugo? Hugo is a Static Site Generator. Key is the word “static”. It means: A static website is made up of one or more HTML webpages that load the same way every time. Static websites contrast with dynamic websites, which load differently based on any number of changing data inputs, such as the user’s location, the time of day, or user actions....

April 30, 2024 · 7 min

Tips for post creation

This is the 1st post of “Everything I learned from blogging with Hugo” series I started blogging in Dec 2021. It’s been a wonderful journey. Has enabled me to gather my thoughts in a far more structured way. The series is based on my setup of Hugo - Netlify - GitHub. I’ll shared my knowledge in terms of Hugo knowledge, how to write a blog post and more. If anyone is interested in the Netlify setup, see Hugo Quick Start then Netlify - Hugo setup....

October 1, 2023 · 9 min