How to Create a New Hugo Post

  • Creating: using hugo new

After a hugo blog is set up on a local computer, to create and publish a new blog, you need to use the hugo new command. It generates a new markdown file starting with its creation date, draft status and title. To run this command, first go to the site directory that contains all of the blog files within, e.g., one of them is the content folder that we access below.

cd /my/hugo/site/folder

Then in the terminal run:

hugo new content/posts/how-to-create-a-new-hugo-post.md

This will create a markdown file under the folder content/posts/, now we can edit.

  • Editting: any editor you use

After editing the markdown file we created above, remember to change the draft: true to draft: false before publish it. Or we could first change its value to false at first.

  • Publishing: case for using Git

Finally, use the git command to commit and push the blog file to remote server.

git push -u origin main