My First New Post

I have installed Hugo. What is the next steps?

I have installed Hugo for the first time following to the guide on Cloudflare. What is the next step? There are two choices:

• Add some testing content,
• Try to instal a new theme.

I chose the first one. Then I had the following question:

How to create new post in Hugo

There is two ways to create new content files:

• Manually, i.e. place new-file.md into content/posts folder and write metadata (front matter) in them manually too.
• Automatically, i.e. use the new command.

Of course, I chose automatic method: opened the terminal in my editor and wrote:

hugo new posts/my-first-post.md

And I immediately saw such an important advantage of creating new posts through the Terminal, as I received a new file with the already generated Frontmatter.

How to insert an image in Hugo content

Content organization in Hugo can be done in different ways. More often I use the Page Bundles, that is Leaf Bundle (🔗📘 Hugo Docs), because it allows me to gather all the elements of the post.

So, create a folder with the name of this new post - new-post-with-images, then add a file index.md to it and the desired images. The structure should look something like this:

content/
   ├── posts/
   │   ├── new-post-with-images/
   │   │   ├── index.md
   │   │   ├── image1.jpg
   │   │   ├── image2.png
   │   └── my-other-post/
   │       └── index.md

Нow i tried to create my first new page in Hugo

The page is not a post, but a slightly different type of post, I thought. Unexpectedly, the method of creating a new page was not so simple for me. I described my experience in the next post: How to create new page in Hugo

Useful links I used for creating the first new post in Hugo

• Basic syntax of Markdown: The Markdown Guide
• Getting started with Hugo: Hugo Docs