ref: 6a1a038c57b4084718743112e8fbb8bc6ea72f0a
parent: 6efbd93a38860063160abe26e0e9428b037b9b56
author: spf13 <[email protected]>
date: Fri Aug 2 23:31:25 EDT 2013
Shrinking the readme to just the basics to avoid dupe with doc site
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# Hugo
+A Fast and Flexible Static Site Generator built with love by [spf13](http://spf13.com)
+and [friends](http://github.com/spf13/hugo/contributors) in Go.
-A really fast static site generator written in GoLang.
-
## Overview
Hugo is a static site generator written in GoLang. It is optimized for
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Hugo makes use of markdown files with front matter for meta data.
A typical website of moderate size can be
-rendered in a fraction of a second. It is written to work well with any
+rendered in a fraction of a second. A good rule of thumb is that Hugo
+takes around 1 millisecond for each piece of content.
+
+It is written to work well with any
kind of website including blogs, tumbles and docs.
+**Complete documentation is available at [Hugo Documentation](http://hugo.spf13.com).**
# Getting Started
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Ideally you should install it somewhere in your path for easy use. `/usr/local/bin`
is the most probable location.
-*the Hugo executible has no external dependencies.*
+*The Hugo executible has no external dependencies.*
### Installing from source
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#### Get directly from Github:
-If you don't intend to contribute, it's even easier.
+If you only want to build from source, it's even easier.
go get github.com/spf13/hugo
-#### Running Hugo
-
- cd /path/to/hugo
- go install github.com/spf13/hugo/hugolibs
- go run main.go
-
#### Building Hugo
cd /path/to/hugo
@@ -77,503 +75,10 @@
go build -o hugo main.go
mv hugo /usr/local/bin/
-## Source Directory Organization
+#### Running Hugo
-Hugo takes a single directory and uses it as the input for creating a complete website.
+ cd /path/to/hugo
+ go install github.com/spf13/hugo/hugolibs
+ go run main.go
-Hugo has a very small amount of configuration, while remaining highly customizable.
-It accomplishes by assuming that you will only provide templates with the intent of
-using them.
-
-An example directory may look like:
-
- .
- ├── config.json
- ├── content
- | ├── post
- | | ├── firstpost.md
- | | └── secondpost.md
- | └── quote
- | | ├── first.md
- | | └── second.md
- ├── layouts
- | ├── chrome
- | | ├── header.html
- | | └── footer.html
- | ├── indexes
- | | ├── category.html
- | | ├── post.html
- | | ├── quote.html
- | | └── tag.html
- | ├── post
- | | ├── li.html
- | | ├── single.html
- | | └── summary.html
- | ├── quote
- | | ├── li.html
- | | ├── single.html
- | | └── summary.html
- | ├── shortcodes
- | | ├── img.html
- | | ├── vimeo.html
- | | └── youtube.html
- | ├── index.html
- | └── rss.xml
- └── static
-
-This directory structure tells us a lot about this site:
-
-1. the website intends to have two different types of content, posts and quotes.
-2. It will also apply two different indexes to that content, categories and tags.
-3. It will be displaying content in 3 different views, a list, a summary and a full page view.
-
-Included with the repository is an example site ready to be rendered.
-
-## Configuration
-
-The directory structure and templates provide the majority of the
-configuration for a site. In fact a config file isn't even needed for many websites
-since the defaults used follow commonly used patterns.
-
-**Please note the field names must be all lowercase**
-
-### Config Examples
-
-The following is an example of a yaml config file with the default values:
-
- ---
- sourcedir: "content"
- layoutdir: "layouts"
- publishdir: "public"
- builddrafts: false
- indexes:
- category: "categories"
- tag: "tags"
- baseurl: "http://yoursite.com/"
- ...
-
-
-The following is an example of a json config file with the default values:
-
- {
- "sourcedir": "content",
- "layoutdir": "layouts",
- "publishdir": "public",
- "builddrafts": false,
- "indexes": {
- category: "categories",
- tag: "tags"
- },
- "baseurl": "http://yoursite.com/"
- }
-
-
-The following is an example of a toml config file with the default values:
-
- sourcedir = "content"
- layoutdir = "layouts"
- publishdir = "public"
- builddrafts = false
- baseurl = "http://yoursite.com/"
- [indexes]
- category = "categories"
- tag = "tags"
-
-
-## Usage
-Make sure either hugo is in your path or provide a path to it.
-
- $ hugo --help
- usage: hugo [flags] []
- -b, --base-url="": hostname (and path) to the root eg. http://spf13.com/
- -D, --build-drafts=false: include content marked as draft
- --config="": config file (default is path/config.yaml|json|toml)
- -d, --destination="": filesystem path to write files to
- -h, --help=false: show this help
- --port="1313": port to run web server on, default :1313
- -S, --server=false: run a (very) simple web server
- -s, --source="": filesystem path to read files relative from
- --uglyurls=false: use /filename.html instead of /filename/
- -v, --verbose=false: verbose output
- --version=false: which version of hugo
- -w, --watch=false: watch filesystem for changes and recreate as needed
-
-The most common use is probably to run hugo with your current
-directory being the input directory.
-
-
- $ hugo
- > X pages created
- > Y indexes created
-
-
-If you are working on things and want to see the changes
-immediately, tell Hugo to watch for changes. **It will
-recreate the site faster than you can tab over to
-your browser to view the changes.**
-
- $ hugo --source ~/mysite --watch
- Watching for changes. Press ctrl+c to stop
- 15 pages created
- 0 tags created
- in 8 ms
-
-Hugo can even run a server and create your site at the same time!
-
- $hugo --server -ws ~/mysite
- Watching for changes. Press ctrl+c to stop
- 15 pages created
- 0 tags created
- in 8 ms
- Web Server is available at http://localhost:1313
- Press ctrl+c to stop
-
-# Layout
-
-Hugo is very flexible about how you organize and structure your content.
-
-## Templates
-
-Hugo uses the excellent golang html/template library for it's template engine. It is an extremely
-lightweight engine that provides a very small amount of logic. In our
-experience that it is just the right amount of logic to be able to create a good static website
-
-This document will not cover how to use golang templates, but the [golang docs](http://golang.org/pkg/html/template/)
-provide a good introduction.
-
-### Template roles
-
-There are 5 different kinds of templates that Hugo works with.
-
-#### index.html
-This file must exist in the layouts directory. It is the template used to render the
-homepage of your site.
-
-#### rss.xml
-This file must exist in the layouts directory. It will be used to render all rss documents.
-The one provided in the example application will generate an ATOM format.
-
-*Important: Hugo will automatically add the following header line to this file.*
-
- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes" ?>
-
-#### Indexes
-An index is a page that list multiple pieces of content. If you think of a typical blog, the tag
-pages are good examples of indexes.
-
-
-#### Content Type(s)
-Hugo supports multiple types of content. Another way of looking at this is that Hugo has the ability
-to render content in a variety of ways as determined by the type.
-
-#### Chrome
-Chrome is simply the decoration of your site. It's not a requirement to have this, but in practice
-it's very convenient. Hugo doesn't know anything about Chrome, it's simply a convention that you may
-likely find beneficial. As you create the rest of your templates you will include templates from the
-/layout/chrome directory. I've found it helpful to include a header and footer template
-in Chrome so I can include those in the other full page layouts (index.html, indexes/ type/single.html).
-
-### Adding a new content type
-
-Adding a type is easy.
-
-**Step 1:**
-Create a directory with the name of the type in layouts.Type is always singular. *Eg /layouts/post*.
-
-**Step 2:**
-Create a file called single.html inside your directory. *Eg /layouts/post/single.html*.
-
-**Step 3:**
-Create a file with the same name as your directory in /layouts/indexes/. *Eg /layouts/index/post.html*.
-
-**Step 4:**
-Many sites support rendering content in a few different ways, for instance a single page view and a
-summary view to be used when displaying a list of contents on a single page. Hugo makes no assumptions
-here about how you want to display your content, and will support as many different views of a content
-type as your site requires. All that is required for these additional views is that a template
-exists in each layout/type directory with the same name.
-
-For these, reviewing the example site will be very helpful in order to understand how these types work.
-
-## Variables
-
-Hugo makes a set of values available to the templates. Go templates are context based. The following
-are available in the context for the templates.
-
-**.Title** The title for the content. <br>
-**.Description** The description for the content.<br>
-**.Keywords** The meta keywords for this content.<br>
-**.Date** The date the content is published on.<br>
-**.Indexes** These will use the field name of the plural form of the index (see tags and categories above)<br>
-**.Permalink** The Permanent link for this page.<br>
-**.FuzzyWordCount** The approximate number of words in the content.<br>
-**.RSSLink** Link to the indexes' rss link <br>
-
-Any value defined in the front matter, including indexes will be made available under `.Params`.
-Take for example I'm using tags and categories as my indexes. The following would be how I would access them:
-
-**.Params.Tags** <br>
-**.Params.Categories** <br>
-
-Also available is `.Site` which has the following:
-
-**.Site.BaseUrl** The base URL for the site as defined in the config.json file.<br>
-**.Site.Indexes** The names of the indexes of the site.<br>
-**.Site.LastChange** The date of the last change of the most recent content.<br>
-**.Site.Recent** Array of all content ordered by Date, newest first<br>
-
-# Content
-Hugo uses markdown files with headers commonly called the front matter. Hugo respects the organization
-that you provide for your content to minimize any extra configuration, though this can be overridden
-by additional configuration in the front matter.
-
-## Organization
-In Hugo the content should be arranged in the same way they are intended for the rendered website.
-Without any additional configuration the following will just work.
-
- .
- └── content
- ├── post
- | ├── firstpost.md // <- http://site.com/post/firstpost.html
- | └── secondpost.md // <- http://site.com/post/secondpost.html
- └── quote
- ├── first.md // <- http://site.com/quote/first.html
- └── second.md // <- http://site.com/quote/second.html
-
-
-## Front Matter
-
-The front matter is one of the features that gives Hugo it's strength. It enables
-you to include the meta data of the content right with it. Hugo supports a few
-different formats each with their own identifying tokens.
-
-Supported formats: <br>
- **YAML**, identified by '\-\-\-'. <br>
- **TOML**, indentified with '+++'.<br>
- **JSON**, a single JSON object which is surrounded by '{' and '}' each on their own line.
-
-### YAML Example
-
- ---
- title: "spf13-vim 3.0 release and new website"
- description: "spf13-vim is a cross platform distribution of vim plugins and resources for Vim."
- tags: [ ".vimrc", "plugins", "spf13-vim", "vim" ]
- pubdate: "2012-04-06"
- categories:
- - "Development"
- - "VIM"
- slug: "spf13-vim-3-0-release-and-new-website"
- ---
- Content of the file goes Here
-
-### TOML Example
-
- +++
- title = "spf13-vim 3.0 release and new website"
- description = "spf13-vim is a cross platform distribution of vim plugins and resources for Vim."
- tags = [ ".vimrc", "plugins", "spf13-vim", "vim" ]
- Pubdate = "2012-04-06"
- categories = [
- "Development",
- "VIM"
- ]
- slug = "spf13-vim-3-0-release-and-new-website"
- +++
- Content of the file goes Here
-
-### JSON Example
-
- {
- "title": "spf13-vim 3.0 release and new website",
- "description": "spf13-vim is a cross platform distribution of vim plugins and resources for Vim.",
- "tags": [ ".vimrc", "plugins", "spf13-vim", "vim" ],
- "date": "2012-04-06",
- "categories": [
- "Development",
- "VIM"
- ],
- "slug": "spf13-vim-3-0-release-and-new-website",
- }
- Content of the file goes Here
-
-### Variables
-There are a few predefined variables that Hugo is aware of and utilizes. The user can also create
-any variable they want to. These will be placed into the `.Params` variable available to the templates.
-**Field names are case insensitive.**
-
-#### Required
-
-**title** The title for the content. <br>
-**description** The description for the content.<br>
-**date** The date the content will be sorted by.<br>
-**indexes** These will use the field name of the plural form of the index (see tags and categories above)
-
-#### Optional
-
-**draft** If true the content will not be rendered unless `hugo` is called with -d<br>
-**type** The type of the content (will be derived from the directory automatically if unset).<br>
-**markup** (Experimental) Specify "rst" for reStructuredText (requires
- `rst2html`,) or "md" (default) for the Markdown.<br>
-**slug** The token to appear in the tail of the url.<br>
- *or*<br>
-**url** The full path to the content from the web root.<br>
-*If neither is present the filename will be used.*
-
-## Example
-Somethings are better shown than explained. The following is a very basic example of a content file:
-
-**mysite/project/nitro.md <- http://mysite.com/project/nitro.html**
-
- ---
- Title: "Nitro : A quick and simple profiler for golang"
- Description": ""
- Keywords": [ "Development", "golang", "profiling" ]
- Tags": [ "Development", "golang", "profiling" ]
- Pubdate": "2013-06-19"
- Topics": [ "Development", "GoLang" ]
- Slug": "nitro"
- project_url": "http://github.com/spf13/nitro"
- ---
-
- # Nitro
-
- Quick and easy performance analyzer library for golang.
-
- ## Overview
-
- Nitro is a quick and easy performance analyzer library for golang.
- It is useful for comparing A/B against different drafts of functions
- or different functions.
-
- ## Implementing Nitro
-
- Using Nitro is simple. First use go get to install the latest version
- of the library.
-
- $ go get github.com/spf13/nitro
-
- Next include nitro in your application.
-
-
-# Extras
-
-## Shortcodes
-Because Hugo uses markdown for it's content format, it was clear that there's a lot of things that
-markdown doesn't support well. This is good, the simple nature of markdown is exactly why we chose it.
-
-However we cannot accept being constrained by our simple format. Also unacceptable is writing raw
-html in our markdown every time we want to include unsupported content such as a video. To do
-so is in complete opposition to the intent of using a bare bones format for our content and
-utilizing templates to apply styling for display.
-
-To avoid both of these limitations Hugo has full support for shortcodes.
-
-### What is a shortcode?
-A shortcode is a simple snippet inside a markdown file that Hugo will render using a template.
-
-Short codes are designated by the opening and closing characters of '{{%' and '%}}' respectively.
-Short codes are space delimited. The first word is always the name of the shortcode. Following the
-name are the parameters. The author of the shortcode can choose if the short code
-will use positional parameters or named parameters (but not both). A good rule of thumb is that if a
-short code has a single required value in the case of the youtube example below then positional
-works very well. For more complex layouts with optional parameters named parameters work best.
-
-The format for named parameters models that of html with the format name="value"
-
-### Example: youtube
-
- {{% youtube 09jf3ow9jfw %}}
-
-This would be rendered as
-
- <div class="embed video-player">
- <iframe class="youtube-player" type="text/html"
- width="640" height="385"
- src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/09jf3ow9jfw"
- allowfullscreen frameborder="0">
- </iframe>
- </div>
-
-### Example: image with caption
-
- {{% img src="/media/spf13.jpg" title="Steve Francia" %}}
-
-Would be rendered as:
-
- <figure >
- <img src="/media/spf13.jpg" />
- <figcaption>
- <h4>Steve Francia</h4>
- </figcaption>
- </figure>
-
-
-### Creating a shortcode
-
-All that you need to do to create a shortcode is place a template in the layouts/shortcodes directory.
-
-The template name will be the name of the shortcode.
-
-**Inside the template**
-
-To access a parameter by either position or name the index method can be used.
-
- {{ index .Params 0 }}
- or
- {{ index .Params "class" }}
-
-To check if a parameter has been provided use the isset method provided by Hugo.
-
- {{ if isset .Params "class"}} class="{{ index .Params "class"}}" {{ end }}
-
-
-# Meta
-
-## Release Notes
-
-* **0.8.0** August 1, 2013
- * Added support for pretty urls (filename/index.html vs filename.html)
- * Hugo supports a destination directory
- * Will efficiently sync content in static to destination directory
- * Cleaned up options.. now with support for short and long options
- * Added support for TOML
- * Added support for YAML
- * Added support for Previous & Next
- * Support for Series
- * Adding verbose output
- * Loads of bugfixes
-* **0.7.0** July 4, 2013
- * Hugo now includes a simple server
- * First public release
-* **0.6.0** July 2, 2013
- * Hugo includes an [example documentation site](http://hugo.spf13.com) which it builds
-* **0.5.0** June 25, 2013
- * Hugo is quite usable and able to build [spf13.com](http://spf13.com)
-
-## Roadmap
-In no particular order, here is what I'm working on:
-
- * Pagination
- * Support for top level pages (other than homepage)
- * Series support
- * Syntax highlighting
- * Previous & Next
- * Related Posts
- * Support for other formats
-
-## Contributing
-
-1. Fork it
-2. Create your feature branch (`git checkout -b my-new-feature`)
-3. Commit your changes (`git commit -am 'Add some feature'`)
-4. Push to the branch (`git push origin my-new-feature`)
-5. Create new Pull Request
-
-## Contributors
-
-* [spf13](https://github.com/spf13)
-
-
-## License
-
-Hugo is released under the Simple Public License. See [LICENSE.md](https://github.com/spf13/hugo/blob/master/LICENSE.md).
+**Complete documentation is available at [Hugo Documentation](http://hugo.spf13.com).**