Content Management
A static site generator needs to extend beyond front matter and a couple 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 reallly fast syntax highlighting from Chroma.
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Supported Content Formats
Markdown and Emacs Org-Mode have native support, and additional formats (e.g. Asciidoc) come via external helpers.
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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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Shortcodes
Shortcodes are simple snippets inside your content files calling built-in or custom templates.
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Content Sections
Hugo supports content sections, which according to Hugo’s default behavior, will reflect the structure of the rendered website.
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Content Types
Hugo supports sites with multiple content types and assumes your site will be organized into sections, where each section represents the corresponding type.
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Archetypes
Archetypes allow you to create new instances of content types and set default parameters from the command line.
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Taxonomies
Hugo includes support for user-defined taxonomies to help you demonstrate logical relationships between content for the end users of your website.
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Content Summaries
Hugo generates summaries of your content.
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Links and Cross References
Hugo makes it easy to link documents together.
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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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Menus
Hugo has a simple yet powerful menu system.
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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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