Hugo Documentation
Hugo is the world’s fastest static website engine. It’s written in Go (aka Golang) and developed by bep , spf13 and friends .
Below you will find some of the most common and helpful pages from our documentation.
Introduction to Hugo Templating
Hugo uses Go’s
html/template and text/template libraries as the basis for the templating.
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Content Organization
Hugo assumes that the same structure that works to organize your source content is used to organize the rendered site.
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Hugo's Lookup Order
Hugo searches for the layout to use for a given page in a well defined order, starting from the most specific.
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Base Templates and Blocks
The base and block constructs allow you to define the outer shell of your master templates (i.e., the chrome of the page).
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Install Hugo
Install Hugo on macOS, Windows, Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and on any machine where the Go compiler tool chain can run.
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Directory Structure
Hugo’s CLI scaffolds a project directory structure and then takes that single directory and uses it as the input to create a complete website.
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Code Toggle
Code Toggle tryout and showcase.
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Configure Hugo
How to configure your Hugo site.
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Configure Markup
How to handle Markdown and other markup related configuration.
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Comments
Hugo ships with an internal Disqus template, but this isn’t the only commenting system that will work with your new Hugo website.
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