Add Search To A Hugo Site

As with many sites these days, once they get beyond a certain size then search becomes an essential part of them. It can however we one of the trickier parts of a statically built websites because without a back-end to do the search for you then it has to be done client-side in the web browser. Luckily solutions to this problem already exist and we show off one these solutions below which uses both FuseJS and MarkJS.

#search #markjs #fusejs #js #static #frontend #query #form

Show All Tags For a Post as a List

When showing your blog post, either as a single page or within a blog post list it can be nice to show the tags associated with that post (we do here on MakeWithHugo!). This is going to be a quick post (hopefully) showing you how to add your tags as a list and each linked up. You can add this code to either your single.html layout file or inside the loop in list.

#tags #post #single #list #range #loop #hashtag #urlize

Print UK Date Format for Post Date

When making this site, we wanted to show the date (above the title) in the British format by putting the day before the month. Controversial, I know. This also means including the date ordinal/suffix after the day, e.g. th, st and nd. If you were writting this format in PHP it would look like this: 1 jS M Y With the ‘S’ standing for: English ordinal suffix for the day of the month, 2 characters

#date #format #uk #ordinal #british #go #time #post

Minify and Load CSS Through Hugo

This post is about loading your CSS files with Hugo in an easy and efficient way, now that Hugo has asset and minification built-in. The advantages of using the functions that come with Hugo are that you don’t have to do any of the building yourself (or use a third party), it just does it! There are a few steps involved in the code that we will walk through: Specify your main scss filename (the one where everything imports into).

#minify #css #fingerprint #integrity #resource #assets #performance #loading

Adding Social Meta Tags into <head> for Hugo

Adding social media tags to the <head> section of your website helps Facebook and Twitter know how to show your page when someone shares it. For example, what image to use and what the title should be. Hugo themes will often come with these tags added already - but if they don’t we wanted to look at how you can add them. Facebook uses Open Graph tags and Twitter uses Cards.

#socialmedia #head #meta #tags #config #twitter #facebook #opengraph

Syntax Highlighting with Hugo (without JS)

If you are into writing code and use Hugo for building a personal or tech blog - then you’ll want syntax highlighting setup for when you show off your code snippets (like we do on this site!) It is also quite simple when you know how. Some advantages of using this method include not having to download a JS library to do the job (so performance), not having the code flash on load after the JS finishes and not having to manage another library to do a job that’s already included in Hugo.

#syntax #code #highlight #block #design #theme #chroma

Check If a Page Is the Home Page

When writing and changing Hugo templates you will often want to act differently based on whether the page you are looking at is the home page, or any other page. So the post pages, contact, about etc won’t have this content show.

#home #html #show #hide #template #logic #if

Only Show HTML When on Local/Production

For Hugo Themes, you will sometimes want to act differently between you working on the site, developing it, and the site if it’s running publicly on the internet. One example of this is if you show advertisements - you don’t want them showing on local (and contributing to impressions) but you would want to show them to the world. The reverse is also true, you could load scripts like livereload only on local development, through hugo server.

#if #template #theme #local #production #ads #code #html

Hello world! Welcome to MakeWithHugo.com

This is our very first post on MakeWithHugo.com - where we are going to make tutorials on how to create, work with and adapt websites built with Hugo. A Bit of Background Hugo is a static site generator built in Go. It is fast and extendable and a good choice for building a static (html-based sites). It does, however, have some nuances that requiring some research as they’re not immediately obvious.

#welcome #hugo #static #generation #deploy #make #learn