Frequently asked questions
I can’t see my content
Is your Markdown file in draft mode? When testing, run hugo server
with the -D
or --buildDrafts
switch.
Is your Markdown file part of a leaf bundle? If there is an index.md
file in the same or any parent directory then other Markdown files will not be rendered as individual pages.
Can I set configuration variables via OS environment?
Yes you can! See Configure with Environment Variables.
How do I schedule posts?
- Set
publishDate
in the page front matter to a datetime in the future. If you want the creation and publication datetime to be the same, it’s also sufficient to only setdate
1. - Build and publish at intervals.
How to automate the “publish at intervals” part depends on your situation:
- If you deploy from your own PC/server, you can automate with Cron or similar.
- If your site is hosted on a service similar to Netlify you can:
- Use a service such as ifttt to schedule the updates; or
- Set up a deploy hook which you can run with a cron service to deploy your site at intervals, such as cron-job.org (both Netlify and Cloudflare Pages support deploy hooks)
Also see this Twitter thread:
@GoHugoIO Converted https://t.co/icCzS7Ha7q from @Medium to Hugo yesterday. Once I figure out how to do scheduled posts I will be ecstatic.
— Chris "Not So" Short (@ChrisShort) February 10, 2018
Can I use the latest Hugo version on Netlify?
I get “… this feature is not available in your current Hugo version”
If you process SCSS
or Sass
to CSS
in your Hugo project with libsass
as the transpiler or if you convert images to the webp
format, you need the Hugo extended
version, or else you may see an error message similar to the below:
error: failed to transform resource: TOCSS: failed to transform "scss/main.scss" (text/x-scss): this feature is not available in your current Hugo version
We release two set of binaries for technical reasons. The extended version is not what you get by default for some installation methods. On the release page, look for archives with extended
in the name. To build hugo-extended
, use go install --tags extended
To confirm, run hugo version
and look for the word extended
.
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See Configure Dates for the order in which the different date variables are complemented by each other when not explicitly set. ↩︎