Are you planning on attending HugoConf this year? I hope so! We’ll be kicking off on Thursday September 21 (PDT) over at hugoconf.io. We’re particularly excited that Hugo contributor Joe Mooring will be joining us for a live interview, focusing on how users can contribute most effectively to the Hugo project.
Want to speak at HugoConf? Get in touch, and send us your ideas. We’d love to showcase a range of topics, from beginner to expert level — and I’m happy to discuss your ideas for talks, however rough they may be.
You can get in touch with me by replying to this email, or filling out the form linked below.
We’d love to grow HugoConf even more, reach more Hugo developers, and generally help introduce Hugo to more people. The best way to help us do all of this is to spread the word about HugoConf — let your fellow Hugo developers know; tweet, toot, thread, or post about it, or encourage your friendly neighborhood web developer to take part.
Call for sponsors
In order to help spread the word about HugoConf, we’re looking for more sponsors. We’ve set up a new sponsorship page with a little more information if you’re interested, or know a company who might be.
Thanks to CloudCannon's continuing sponsorship, HugoConf will remain a completely free event.
Since my last email, we've reached version 0.115.2 of Hugo. The Hugo team has extended the security support of hugo server, added support for both major versions of the Dart Sass Embedded protocol, and allow both section and taxonomy pages to have a permalink configuration.
BJØRN ERIK PEDERSEN / MAI-LAPYST / HUGO CONTRIBUTORS
A great (short) article on how Chris uses Hugo and a little PHP to create all the HTML for his Lean Web Club. If you're interested, he's also written about how he uses flat JSON storage instead of a database.
Low-tech Magazine has moved from Pelican to Hugo. If you haven't come across it, it's a fantastic site — big ideas with excellent execution, and now with Hugo, an even more efficient website. (And yes, it's completely solar-powered!) The team behind the rebuild have also released their Hugo theme as open-source software.
A shell script based on a GitHub Action makes it a breeze to install both Hugo and Dart Sass. (For the last year Bryce has been my go-to source for context on Hugo's Dart Sass saga — and the various implementation workarounds that were necessary until version 0.114.0.)
I've shared the Hugo module bundle that this one is in before, but I thought it was worth pointing out this one in particular: it's a vanilla JS implementation with excellent customization features.
A free starter template with Hugo and Tailwind CSS, so you can jumpstart your projects and save development time. It's surprisingly complete, with multi-author setup, similar posts suggestions, search, dark mode, forms, comments, and pre-designed pages.
A thoughtful discussion of "light" websites — sites with a minimal data volume and are responsible for correspondingly low CO2 emissions. Here, the sections are managed as page bundles, and Erhard has implemented a "low-tech CMS" in the form of a single PHP file.
This one is much less about Hugo than it is about serverless functions, build hooks, and Apple Shortcuts, but it's a neat party trick! (And could be a slightly faster party trick with Hugo...)
CloudCannon's Git-based CMS has everything you need for content management — with full support for Hugo shortcodes under CloudCannon's 'Snippets' feature, your team can build new pages, edit them visually with live preview URLs, and host the best performing sites on the web.
CLOUDCANNON
I’d love to share more cool stuff with everyone. If you’ve got Hugo-related news, events, or tutorials you’d like to share with the Hugo community, please let me know either by replying to this email or byTwitterDM, and I’ll add it to my list of resources to share.
Happy coding, and feel free to pass this email on to friends or colleagues who might be interested!
DAVID LARGE
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