In an ideal world, every web page would exist, but sometimes links go to pages that doen’t exist. This is why we make “404 - not found” pages. In Hugo you can do the same. Many of our sites are hosted with Netlify which also support these files - automatically returning the correct http status code for them.
To make yours, you can add a file into your layouts folder.
Below is an example of a basic one, which you can change to anything you’d like.
{{ theme }}/layouts/404.html
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{{ define "main" }}
<main><br><br><h1>We couldn't find this Page!</h1><p> Please try our search page to look for it or go back
to the <ahref="/">home page</a>.
</p></main>{{ end }}
Edd is a PHP and Go developer who enjoys blogging about his experiences, mostly about creating and coding new things he's working on and is a big beliver in open-source and Linux.
Using Emoji In Posts & Themes
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Emojis have been named word of the year and are seen every day in modern culture. We use them every day on our messaging apps, emails and … err blogs!
This post is about how you can enable and use them in both your Hugo themes and, in general, when writing posts.
Using Emojis in Themes To use them within your theme, there’s a built in function which turns text in emojis.
Change a URL on a Post (While Preserving SEO)
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If you use Hugo, we’ve all been there: create a post, give it a url - spell something wrong in the url, doh! This post hopes to explain how you can change the URL of a post, while preserving the SEO benefits associated with it.
We can do this, by changing the URL on the post to what we want then setting up an alias for the old url. This was existing traffic and Google still know what’s going on and will treat it as the same page.
Hide a Page in Hugo
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Option 1: Draft The simplest way to hide a page when using Hugo is probably to set the post as a draft. This way, you still have the content ready to go for when you need it.
To hide a page by setting it as draft, so our drafts page:
Set Post as Draft Tutorial Option 2: Hide from Posts List You still want the page to be visible, but you don’t want to show it your blog posts list?
