Content Management
A static site generator needs to extend beyond front matter and a couple of templates to be both scalable and manageable. Hugo was designed with not only developers in mind, but also content managers and authors.
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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Syntax Highlighting
Hugo comes with really fast syntax highlighting from Chroma.
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Content Formats
Both HTML and Markdown are supported content formats.
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Related Content
List related content in “See Also” sections.
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Front Matter
Hugo allows you to add front matter in yaml, toml, or json to your content files.
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Build Options
Build options help define how Hugo must treat a given page when building the site.
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Shortcodes
Shortcodes are simple snippets inside your content files calling built-in or custom templates.
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Content Types
Hugo is built around content organized in sections.
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Archetypes
Archetypes are templates used when creating new content.
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Taxonomies
Hugo includes support for user-defined taxonomies.
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Content Summaries
Hugo generates summaries of your content.
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Links and Cross References
Shortcodes for creating links to documents.
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URL Management
Hugo supports permalinks, aliases, link canonicalization, and multiple options for handling relative vs absolute URLs.
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If all you want is a simple menu for your sections, see the “Section Menu for Lazy Bloggers” in Menu Templates.
You can do this:
Place content in one or many menus Handle nested menus with unlimited depth Create menu entries without being attached to any content Distinguish active element (and active branch) What is a Menu in Hugo? A menu is a named array of menu entries accessible by name via the .
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Static Files
Files that get served statically (as-is, no modification) on the site root.
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Table of Contents
Hugo can automatically parse Markdown content and create a Table of Contents you can use in your templates.
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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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Multilingual Mode
Hugo supports the creation of websites with multiple languages side by side.
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Page Bundles
Content organization using Page Bundles
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Page Resources
Page Resources – images, other pages, documents etc. – have page-relative URLs and their own metadata.
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Image Processing
Image Page resources can be resized and cropped.
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