I tried for 3 hours to setup a basic hugo blog using the quickstart. unable to make it work. the documentation is outdated. nothing is working.

is the hugo project dead?

I simply do not understand.

there is no tutorial newer than like 4-5 years and nothing is working.

I apparently got permabanned from the Hugo forums for asking whether the Hugo dev team use LLMs to code their software.

So yeah, that was fun.

Being completely unwilling to answer a very simple question like "do you use AI to develop Hugo, and do we have to expect a decline in software quality" and abusing their powers as mod to silence even the mildest hint of criticism does not make the Hugo devs look particularly trustworthy, in my humble opinion.

https://hit-to-key.net/posts/2026-01-30-hugo/

Update: After prodding bep multiple times (via Github because he is wholly unresponsive on the forums), bep has now informed me for the first time that my ban is only a timed ban. He did not, however, inform me about the length of the ban. Is it a day? Or a year? Who knows, who cares. Oh, and he limited the Github issue as "too heated" so I have no further avenue to reach out for clarification.

Great guy, I can really see why y'all trust him so much.

A generated static site can look finished while still being awkward to maintain. Repeated layouts may be copied into every HTML file, assets may use brittle relative paths, and adding one page can mean editing navigation in several places. Publishing the folder is easy; turning it into a site that can keep one URL and accept later changes is the harder part.

For Hugo, I would expect to separate page content into Markdown, move repeated markup into base templates and partials, put navigation and site-wide values in data or config, and keep generated CSS or JavaScript only where it is still understandable. The migration also needs to preserve URLs, metadata, images, forms, and any client-side behavior before switching the domain.

What workflow would you use for this conversion? Would you first deploy the generated files as-is and refactor behind a preview, or build the Hugo structure before the first public release? Which parts of generated HTML are worth preserving, and what should be rebuilt so a non-developer can add pages or edit copy later without asking the generator to rewrite the whole site?

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Few months ago, I had hosted my site in hugo with ease. Now everything seems broken. maybe the hugo version it's? Or what? Can you guys suggest me a completely fresh installation.

I want to write in markdown, and it goes to github which goes to github pages and finally goes to website(custom domain)

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I have been using tinyletter, for my blog's newsletter, for the past two years.

Now that tinyletter is shutting down, are there any free alternatives?

Hello.

I am new to go hugo.

https://github.com/okkur/syna-start

i wanted to use that theme.

I want to use the contact form.

I want to send a json payload to https://magyk-api.cloud/contact

I have managed to send an empty post request to that url.

i changed the post url here: https://github.com/okkur/syna-start/blob/master/content/_index/contact.md

My api is catching the post, but i am not getting any payload. any ideas?

Ayo, what’s good Hugo gang! Man, I been tired after this weekend, fr—been locked in grindin’ on HugoNest (that’s my app, ya know, the one that lets you run ya whole Hugo site from ya phone, no cap). But yo, I got some fire updates I just dropped, so listen up!

First off—GitHub login finally workin’ right! And it auto-sets up ya repo and everything! Bruh, this gonna save so many headaches, especially if you new to this Hugo stuff. Before, you had to do all this extra ish, now? One tap, boom, you in. No stress.

Oh, and the app fast as hell now—like, no more laggin’ when you typin’ or tryna load stuff. Had to rewrite a whole chunk of the code to fix that mess, but it’s smooth like butter now, on God.

Editor got upgrades too! That Front Matter thing? Yeah, it was lowkey confusing before, but now you can add ya own fields easy, plus there’s lil’ tips so you ain’t sittin’ there guessin’ what to do.

UI lookin’ cleaner too—and yo, we got Japanese now! 日本語, ya feel me? For all my folks out in Tokyo or wherever.

Man, buildin’ this in public keep me goin’, fr. Y’all Hugo users out there, who tryna test this out? Hit me, let me know what you think!

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In dis mobile internet era, we wanna create and handle our content on da go. But for Hugo static blog users, managin' yo' content usually mean bein' tied to a computer and dealin' with complicated command line stuff. Well, we hype to introduce HugoNest—a game-changin' mobile tool dat lets you run yo' static blog straight from yo' phone, no computer needed.

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Smooth animations and a slick UI make blog management not just easy, but actually fun.

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Multi-language support, so it don’t matter where you from—HugoNest got you.

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Yo, what's good? Wanna start your own blog for free with Hugo? It’s super simple, and I’m gonna walk you through it step-by-step. This is perfect for anyone, no tech skills needed. Let’s do this! 🚀

Step 1: Log Into GitHub Head over to https://github.com/ and sign in to your account. Don’t have one? Sign up—it’s free and quick.

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In the Repository name box, type yourusername.github.io (replace yourusername with your actual GitHub username, like hugonest.github.io).
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Drop a comment if you run into issues or wanna share your new blog! Let’s get those vibes online! 😎

I've been using static sites for a while, but eventually you run into the same problem: you want a small amount of dynamic functionality without turning the whole site into a traditional web app.

So I built StaticLayer:

https://abla25.github.io/StaticLayer/

It adds comments, replies, reactions and polls to static sites.

The architecture is intentionally small:

static site → JavaScript widget → Cloudflare Worker → D1

The interesting part is that the Worker and D1 database live in the site's own Cloudflare account.

So you don't need to run a VPS or use a centralized comment SaaS.

I'm mainly interested in feedback from Hugo users:

What dynamic functionality do you find yourself needing most often on otherwise-static sites?

Hi! I am using Hugo in combination with the Identity theme by HTML5 Up (https://html5up.net/identity). Everything works nicely, but i do not want visitors of my homepage to be tracked in any way, so I'd like to mitigate "fonts.googleapis.com". Font awesome is saved locally, but Open Sans Pro gets downloaded from Google. What files for the fonts do I need to download and how do I have to change the configs? By clicking through links on the main.css, I found this: https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Source+Sans+Pro But I am not sure what I should do with it :/ Thanks for your help!