Finally migrated blog to Hugo, initially most worried was this theme didn’t exist on Hugo platform. But got excited, spent two or three days. This theme. Completely migrated to Hugo platform. Next I’ll introduce Hugo usage and pitfalls encountered, and solutions.

Hugo Performance

Precisely because hexo’s performance couldn’t satisfy, extremely unstable when generating static files. And time is relatively longer. With same page count, processing speed hugo is 20 times or more than hexo. This is why I switched to Hugo.

Configuration File

Two platforms have many commonalities, migration has much work that’s very natural. In configuration files hugo can also use yaml, so migrating from hexo will be relatively much better. Additionally hugo can also use json as configuration file, providing users many choices.

Hugo Basic Usage

On Mac Platform

Mac Hugo provides homebrew installation method, very convenient.

brew install hugo

On Debian and Ubuntu Platform

sudo apt-get install hugo

On Windows Platform

Windows Hugo provides Chocolatey installation method, through the following command.

choco install hugo -confirm

Verify Installation

After installation completes, we open terminal, enter the following command to verify if installation successful

hugo version

Create a Site

hugo new site quickstart

Add a Theme

cd quickstart;\
git init;\
git submodule add https://github.com/budparr/gohugo-theme-ananke.git themes/ananke;\

# Edit your config.toml configuration file
# Add a theme called Ananke
echo 'theme = "ananke"' >> config.toml

Create a New Article

hugo new posts/my-first-post.md

Start Hugo Service Locally

hugo server -D

Build Static Site

hugo

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