Hugo

Hugo Extended Setup

Now that I’m on the other side of the daunting task of setting up Hugo and making an extensible enough theme, I figure I can share what I’ve done and learned. My Design process While envisioning what I wanted out of this, here is the process of selection and implementation. My Objectives When setting out to make this, I wanted a few simple things: A simple way to write and publish posts.

Getting Started with Hugo

Holy Crap Hugo docs are worse than I recall. This literally took me 3 or 4 hours. In the end the quickstart is beyond useless, to the point of harmful. Just use the custom theme option to start and learn to make your own themes. Here’s my quickstart Install Hugo’s binary Create a new site with hugo new site whatever When it asks about theme, just say to make a custom one.