Hugo news 📰

[David]

I’ve just published my latest Hugo newsletter on LinkedIn — the top-line news is that Hugo will eventually be getting “dimensional support” for multiple sites per language. Upcoming Hugo releases will add version and role to the build matrix, essentially enabling multi-dimensional site builds.

Also exciting: Bjørn Erik Pedersen is planning plugin support for 's core parts, including WASM files via module mounts — which could be useful for extending functionality.

The newsletter also covers some new community resources around link validation, Pagefind search implementation (including search in local dev mode), a couple of new themes, and menu management.

(If you’d rather skip LinkedIn entirely, you can sign up for the email newsletter at hugoconf.io; I send it out roughly monthly.)

[David]

We’ve just released a Hugo Starter template, with Tailwind CSS, built-in search, image processing, and Font Awesome icons. Let us know what you think!

Note, this template is aimed at helping devs build new sites quickly, rather than providing editors with a fully built editable site.

It does, however, have quite a big list of cool features:

• Blog with pagination & tags
• Markdown options & styles
• Tailwind
• Font Awesome icons
• Page building in CloudCannon with Bookshop components
• Built-in search with Pagefind
• Image processing
• Pre-configured shortcodes
• Header and Footer controls
• Creating and deleting pages
• Accessibility controls
• SEO controls
• Color palette controls

GitHub repo: GitHub - CloudCannon/hugo-starter
Demo site: https://moss-goldfish.cloudvent.net/

Thanks to @Tom_Richardson for putting all this together!