Developer tools

One of Hugo’s greatest strengths is its passionate—and always evolving—developer community. With the exception of the highlight shortcode mentioned in Syntax Highlighting, the tools and other projects featured in this section are offerings from both commercial services and open-source projects, many of which are developed by Hugo developers just like you.

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Editor plugins for Hugo

The Hugo community uses a wide range of preferred tools and has developed plug-ins for some of the most popular text editors to help automate parts of your workflow. Read More »

Frontend interfaces with Hugo

Do you prefer a graphical user interface over a text editor? Give these frontends a try. Read More »

Search for your Hugo website

See some of the open-source and commercial search options for your newly created Hugo website. Read More »

Migrate to Hugo

A list of community-developed tools for migrating from your existing static site generator or content management system to Hugo. Read More »

Other community projects

Some interesting projects developed by the Hugo community that don’t quite fit into our other developer tool categories. Read More »