My first blog post using Emacs and Hugo is finally finished! I thought about it and I think I’m going to store Hugo in a git repository on github to take advantage of github pages. Also the alternative would be to use nextcloud and that seems like a pain. Although keeping it with my org-mode TODO stuff would be nice (will probably be a later blog post about it).
To start off about my Hugo setup I am using the Blackburn theme (bottom of the left sidebar). Originally I was going to make this separate from my main HTML setup(blog.renzix.com) but I decided that I probable wasn’t going to make a HTML website for a while and other reasons.
After I choose the theme I setup my configuration which was pretty much a
copy/paste form the example given by the theme author. The real reason why I am
using Hugo is because there is a nice plugin called ox-hugo which allows me to
write my posts in org mode and export to Hugo markdown. This is actually REALLY
nice as all I have to do is setup a couple properties. You just need to setup
#+HUGO_BASE_DIR and add the :EXPORT_FILE_NAME: filename to the properties
tag of a bullet OR you can use separate files(I think 1 file is better tho).
After that you can set a few more options like EXPORT_DATE for the date and it
actually intergrates with org mode.
Hugo has this notion of Drafts which in ox-hugo is represented by TODO. This is a REALLY smart idea. Not only that but tags in org mode work just like tags in ox-hugo making it even easier to use. Export date is manual from what i can see but I probably can make a function with org-time-stamp-inactive or something.
If you want to see how I configured it see my git repo at git.renzix.com/Renzix/Blog
EDIT: I have also found out that if you enable time on DONE tasks you don’t even need to put a date on it making it even more awesome. All you need is a filename and to mark it as done.