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. Just run your string through emojify and you should see an icon.
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{{emojify":v:"}}
Results in: ✌️
For more options and a list of emojis you can use, see the cheatsheet below.
To automatically convert emoji within your blog posts when using Hugo, we can enable them within our config file. In our example, it’s called config.toml and found in the root of our project.
config.toml
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enableEmoji=true
Once we turn this on, we can just type the tags from the cheatsheet above, and then should show as an icon.
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.
Markdown for Hugo: Cheatsheet
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This is designed to be a ‘cheatsheet’ to help you find the syntax you need quickly for creating markdown content on Hugo sites.
Code Block 1 2 3 4 5 ```css body { background: red; } ``` To define a code block, wrap the code in backticks like: `
Three of them, and you can define the code language after the first set, like we’ve said the above code is css.
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?
Migrate Wordpress to Hugo
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Wordpress is a fantastically popular blogging platform, but judging by the fact you are here, you’re looking to move to Hugo (great choice!)
The software we’ve used in the past to do this for us is called wordpress-to-hugo-exporter (does as it’s name suggests). This will essentially convert the database posts saved into markdown files which you can use in Hugo and with your theme of choice.
View on Github How to It’s important to note this works as a Wordpress plugin, so if you can’t install plugins it may not work for you.
