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``` git subtree add --prefix=docs/ https://github.com/gohugoio/hugoDocs.git master --squash ``` Closes #11925
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+---
+title: About Hugo
+linkTitle: Overview
+description: Hugo's features, roadmap, license, and motivation.
+categories: []
+keywords: []
+menu:
+ docs:
+ identifier: about-hugo-overview
+ parent: about
+ weight: 10
+weight: 10
+aliases: [/about-hugo/,/docs/]
+---
+
+Hugo is not your average static site generator.
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+---
+title: Benefits of static site generators
+linkTitle: Static site generators
+description: Improved performance, security and ease of use are just a few of the reasons static site generators are so appealing.
+categories: [about]
+keywords: [ssg,static,performance,security]
+menu:
+ docs:
+ parent: about
+ weight: 40
+weight: 40
+---
+
+The purpose of website generators is to render content into HTML files. Most are "dynamic site generators." That means the HTTP server---i.e., the program that sends files to the browser to be viewed---runs the generator to create a new HTML file every time an end user requests a page.
+
+Over time, dynamic site generators were programmed to cache their HTML files to prevent unnecessary delays in delivering pages to end users. A cached page is a static version of a web page.
+
+Hugo takes caching a step further and all HTML files are rendered on your computer. You can review the files locally before copying them to the computer hosting the HTTP server. Since the HTML files aren't generated dynamically, we say that Hugo is a *static site generator*.
+
+This has many benefits. The most noticeable is performance. HTTP servers are *very* good at sending files---so good, in fact, that you can effectively serve the same number of pages with a fraction of the memory and CPU needed for a dynamic site.
+
+## More on static site generators
+
+* ["An Introduction to Static Site Generators", David Walsh]
+* ["Hugo vs. WordPress page load speed comparison: Hugo leaves WordPress in its dust", GettingThingsTech][hugovwordpress]
+* ["Static Site Generators", O'Reilly]
+* [StaticGen: Top Open-Source Static Site Generators (GitHub Stars)]
+* ["Top 10 Static Website Generators", Netlify blog]
+* ["The Resurgence of Static", dotCMS][dotcms]
+
+["An Introduction to Static Site Generators", David Walsh]: https://davidwalsh.name/introduction-static-site-generators
+["Static Site Generators", O'Reilly]: https://github.com/gohugoio/hugoDocs/files/1242701/static-site-generators.pdf
+["Top 10 Static Website Generators", Netlify blog]: https://www.netlify.com/blog/2016/05/02/top-ten-static-website-generators/
+[hugovwordpress]: https://gettingthingstech.com/hugo-vs.-wordpress-page-load-speed-comparison-hugo-leaves-wordpress-in-its-dust/
+[StaticGen: Top Open-Source Static Site Generators (GitHub Stars)]: https://www.staticgen.com/
+[dotcms]: https://dotcms.com/blog/post/the-resurgence-of-static
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+---
+title: Hugo features
+description: Hugo boasts blistering speed, robust content management, and a powerful templating language making it a great fit for all kinds of static websites.
+categories: [about]
+keywords: []
+menu:
+ docs:
+ parent: about
+ weight: 30
+weight: 30
+toc: true
+---
+
+## General
+
+* [Extremely fast] build times (&lt; 1 ms per page)
+* Completely cross platform, with [easy installation][install] on macOS, Linux, Windows, and more
+* Renders changes on the fly with [LiveReload] as you develop
+* [Powerful theming]
+* [Host your site anywhere][hostanywhere]
+
+## Organization
+
+* Straightforward [organization for your projects], including website sections
+* Customizable [URLs]
+* Support for configurable [taxonomies], including categories and tags
+* [Sort content] as you desire through powerful template [functions]
+* Automatic [table of contents] generation
+* [Dynamic menu] creation
+* [Pretty URLs] support
+* [Permalink] pattern support
+* Redirects via [aliases]
+
+## Content
+
+* Native Markdown and Emacs Org-Mode support, as well as other languages via *external helpers* (see [supported formats])
+* TOML, YAML, and JSON metadata support in [front matter]
+* Customizable [homepage]
+* Multiple [content types]
+* Automatic and user defined [content summaries]
+* [Shortcodes] to enable rich content inside of Markdown
+* ["Minutes to Read"][pagevars] functionality
+* ["WordCount"][pagevars] functionality
+
+## Additional features
+
+* Integrated [Disqus] comment support
+* Integrated [Google Analytics] support
+* Automatic [RSS] creation
+* Support for [Go] HTML templates
+* [Syntax highlighting] powered by [Chroma]
+
+[aliases]: /content-management/urls/#aliases
+[Chroma]: https://github.com/alecthomas/chroma
+[content summaries]: /content-management/summaries/
+[content types]: /content-management/types/
+[Disqus]: https://disqus.com/
+[Dynamic menu]: /templates/menu-templates/
+[Extremely fast]: https://github.com/bep/hugo-benchmark
+[front matter]: /content-management/front-matter/
+[functions]: /functions/
+[Go]: https://pkg.go.dev/html/template
+[Google Analytics]: https://google-analytics.com/
+[homepage]: /templates/homepage/
+[hostanywhere]: /hosting-and-deployment/
+[install]: /installation/
+[LiveReload]: /getting-started/usage/
+[organization for your projects]: /getting-started/directory-structure/
+[pagevars]: /variables/page/
+[Permalink]: /content-management/urls/#permalinks
+[Powerful theming]: /hugo-modules/theme-components/
+[Pretty URLs]: /content-management/urls/
+[RSS]: /templates/rss/
+[Shortcodes]: /content-management/shortcodes/
+[sort content]: /templates/
+[supported formats]: /content-management/formats/
+[Syntax highlighting]: /content-management/syntax-highlighting/
+[table of contents]: /content-management/toc/
+[taxonomies]: /content-management/taxonomies/
+[URLs]: /content-management/urls/
diff --git a/docs/content/en/about/hugo-and-gdpr.md b/docs/content/en/about/hugo-and-gdpr.md
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+---
+title: Hugo and the General Data Protection Regulation
+linkTitle: Hugo and the GDPR
+description: About how to configure your Hugo site to meet the new regulations.
+categories: [about]
+keywords: ["GDPR", "Privacy", "Data Protection"]
+menu:
+ docs:
+ parent: about
+ weight: 60
+weight: 60
+toc: true
+aliases: [/privacy/,/gdpr/]
+---
+
+ General Data Protection Regulation ([GDPR](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation)) is a regulation in EU law on data protection and privacy for all individuals within the European Union and the European Economic Area. It became enforceable on 25 May 2018.
+
+ **Hugo is a static site generator. By using Hugo you are already standing on very solid ground. Static HTML files on disk are much easier to reason about compared to server and database driven web sites.**
+
+ But even static websites can integrate with external services, so from version `0.41`, Hugo provides a **privacy configuration** that covers the relevant built-in templates.
+
+ Note that:
+
+ * These settings have their defaults setting set to _off_, i.e. how it worked before Hugo `0.41`. You must do your own evaluation of your site and apply the appropriate settings.
+ * These settings work with the [internal templates](/templates/internal/). Some theme may contain custom templates for embedding services like Google Analytics. In that case these options have no effect.
+ * We will continue this work and improve this further in future Hugo versions.
+
+## All privacy settings
+
+Below are all privacy settings and their default value. These settings need to be put in your site configuration (e.g. `hugo.toml`).
+
+{{< code-toggle file=hugo >}}
+[privacy]
+[privacy.disqus]
+disable = false
+[privacy.googleAnalytics]
+disable = false
+respectDoNotTrack = false
+anonymizeIP = false
+useSessionStorage = false
+[privacy.instagram]
+disable = false
+simple = false
+[privacy.twitter]
+disable = false
+enableDNT = false
+simple = false
+[privacy.vimeo]
+disable = false
+enableDNT = false
+simple = false
+[privacy.youtube]
+disable = false
+privacyEnhanced = false
+{{< /code-toggle >}}
+
+## Disable all services
+
+An example privacy configuration that disables all the relevant services in Hugo. With this configuration, the other settings will not matter.
+
+{{< code-toggle file=hugo >}}
+[privacy]
+[privacy.disqus]
+disable = true
+[privacy.googleAnalytics]
+disable = true
+[privacy.instagram]
+disable = true
+[privacy.twitter]
+disable = true
+[privacy.vimeo]
+disable = true
+[privacy.youtube]
+disable = true
+{{< /code-toggle >}}
+
+## The privacy settings explained
+
+### GoogleAnalytics
+
+anonymizeIP
+: Enabling this will make it so the users' IP addresses are anonymized within Google Analytics.
+
+respectDoNotTrack
+: Enabling this will make the GA templates respect the "Do Not Track" HTTP header.
+
+useSessionStorage
+: Enabling this will disable the use of Cookies and use Session Storage to Store the GA Client ID.
+
+{{% note %}}
+`useSessionStorage` is not supported when using Google Analytics v4 (gtag.js).
+{{% /note %}}
+
+### Instagram
+
+simple
+: If simple mode is enabled, a static and no-JS version of the Instagram image card will be built. Note that this only supports image cards and the image itself will be fetched from Instagram's servers.
+
+**Note:** If you use the _simple mode_ for Instagram and a site styled with Bootstrap 4, you may want to disable the inline styles provided by Hugo:
+
+{{< code-toggle file=hugo >}}
+[services]
+[services.instagram]
+disableInlineCSS = true
+{{< /code-toggle >}}
+
+### Twitter
+
+enableDNT
+: Enabling this for the twitter/tweet shortcode, the tweet and its embedded page on your site are not used for purposes that include personalized suggestions and personalized ads.
+
+simple
+: If simple mode is enabled, a static and no-JS version of a tweet will be built.
+
+**Note:** If you use the _simple mode_ for Twitter, you may want to disable the inline styles provided by Hugo:
+
+{{< code-toggle file=hugo >}}
+[services]
+[services.twitter]
+disableInlineCSS = true
+{{< /code-toggle >}}
+
+### YouTube
+
+privacyEnhanced
+: When you turn on privacy-enhanced mode, YouTube won’t store information about visitors on your website unless the user plays the embedded video.
+
+### Vimeo
+
+enableDNT
+: Enabling this for the vimeo shortcode, the Vimeo player will be blocked from tracking any session data, including all cookies and stats.
+
+simple
+: If simple mode is enabled, the video thumbnail is fetched from Vimeo's servers and it is overlaid with a play button. If the user clicks to play the video, it will open in a new tab directly on Vimeo's website.
diff --git a/docs/content/en/about/license.md b/docs/content/en/about/license.md
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+---
+title: License
+description: Hugo is released under the Apache 2.0 license.
+categories: [about]
+keywords: [license,apache]
+menu:
+ docs:
+ parent: about
+ weight: 70
+weight: 70
+---
+
+## Apache License
+
+
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+---
+title: Hugo's security model
+description: A summary of Hugo's security model.
+categories: [about]
+keywords: [security,privacy]
+menu:
+ docs:
+ parent: about
+ weight: 50
+weight: 50
+toc: true
+aliases: [/security/]
+---
+
+## Runtime security
+
+Hugo produces static output, so once built, the runtime is the browser (assuming the output is HTML) and any server (API) that you integrate with.
+
+But when developing and building your site, the runtime is the `hugo` executable. Securing a runtime can be [a real challenge](https://blog.logrocket.com/how-to-protect-your-node-js-applications-from-malicious-dependencies-5f2e60ea08f9/).
+
+**Hugo's main approach is that of sandboxing and a security policy with strict defaults:**
+
+* Hugo has a virtual file system and only the main project (not third-party components) is allowed to mount directories or files outside the project root.
+* Only the main project can walk symbolic links.
+* User-defined components have read-only access to the filesystem.
+* We shell out to some external binaries to support [Asciidoctor](/content-management/formats/#list-of-content-formats) and similar, but those binaries and their flags are predefined and disabled by default (see [Security Policy](#security-policy)). General functions to run arbitrary external OS commands have been [discussed](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/796), but not implemented because of security concerns.
+
+## Security policy
+
+Hugo has a built-in security policy that restricts access to [os/exec](https://pkg.go.dev/os/exec), remote communication and similar.
+
+The default configuration is listed below. Any build using features not in the allow list of the security policy will fail with a detailed message about what needs to be done. Most of these settings are allow lists (string or slice, [Regular Expressions](https://pkg.go.dev/regexp) or `none` which matches nothing).
+
+{{< code-toggle config=security />}}
+
+Note that these and other configuration settings in Hugo can be overridden by the OS environment. If you want to block all remote HTTP fetching of data:
+
+```txt
+HUGO_SECURITY_HTTP_URLS=none hugo
+```
+
+## Dependency security
+
+Hugo is built as a static binary using [Go Modules](https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Modules) to manage its dependencies. Go Modules have several safeguards, one of them being the `go.sum` file. This is a database of the expected cryptographic checksums of all of your dependencies, including transitive dependencies.
+
+[Hugo Modules](/hugo-modules/) is a feature built on top of the functionality of Go Modules. Like Go Modules, a Hugo project using Hugo Modules will have a `go.sum` file. We recommend that you commit this file to your version control system. The Hugo build will fail if there is a checksum mismatch, which would be an indication of [dependency tampering](https://julienrenaux.fr/2019/12/20/github-actions-security-risk/).
+
+## Web application security
+
+These are the security threats as defined by [OWASP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OWASP).
+
+For HTML output, this is the core security model:
+
+<https://pkg.go.dev/html/template#hdr-Security_Model>
+
+In short:
+
+Template and configuration authors (you) are trusted, but the data you send in is not.
+This is why you sometimes need to use the _safe_ functions, such as `safeHTML`, to avoid escaping of data you know is safe.
+There is one exception to the above, as noted in the documentation: If you enable inline shortcodes, you also say that the shortcodes and data handling in content files are trusted, as those macros are treated as pure text.
+It may be worth adding that Hugo is a static site generator with no concept of dynamic user input.
+
+For content, the default Markdown renderer is [configured](/getting-started/configuration-markup) to remove or escape potentially unsafe content. This behavior can be reconfigured if you trust your content.
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+---
+title: What is Hugo
+description: Hugo is a fast and modern static site generator written in Go, and designed to make website creation fun again.
+categories: [about]
+keywords: []
+menu:
+ docs:
+ parent: about
+ weight: 20
+weight: 20
+toc: true
+aliases: [/overview/introduction/,/about/why-i-built-hugo/]
+---
+
+Hugo is a general-purpose website framework. Technically speaking, Hugo is a [static site generator]. Unlike systems that dynamically build a page with each visitor request, Hugo builds pages when you create or update your content. Since websites are viewed far more often than they are edited, Hugo is designed to provide an optimal viewing experience for your website's end users and an ideal writing experience for website authors.
+
+Websites built with Hugo are extremely fast and secure. Hugo sites can be hosted anywhere, including [Netlify], [Heroku], [GoDaddy], [DreamHost], [GitHub Pages], [GitLab Pages], [Surge], [Firebase], [Google Cloud Storage], [Amazon S3], [Rackspace], [Azure], and [CloudFront] and work well with CDNs. Hugo sites run without the need for a database or dependencies on expensive runtimes like Ruby, Python, or PHP.
+
+We think of Hugo as the ideal website creation tool with nearly instant build times, able to rebuild whenever a change is made.
+
+## How fast is Hugo?
+
+{{< youtube "CdiDYZ51a2o" >}}
+
+## What does Hugo do?
+
+In technical terms, Hugo takes a source directory of files and templates and uses these as input to create a complete website.
+
+## Who should use Hugo?
+
+Hugo is for people that prefer writing in a text editor over a browser.
+
+Hugo is for people who want to hand code their own website without worrying about setting up complicated runtimes, dependencies and databases.
+
+Hugo is for people building a blog, a company site, a portfolio site, documentation, a single landing page, or a website with thousands of pages.
+
+[@spf13]: https://twitter.com/spf13
+[Amazon S3]: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/
+[Azure]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/storage-blob-static-website
+[CloudFront]: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/
+[DreamHost]: https://www.dreamhost.com/
+[Firebase]: https://firebase.google.com/docs/hosting/
+[GitHub Pages]: https://pages.github.com/
+[GitLab Pages]: https://about.gitlab.com/features/pages/
+[Go language]: https://go.dev/
+[GoDaddy]: https://www.godaddy.com/
+[Google Cloud Storage]: https://cloud.google.com/storage/
+[Heroku]: https://www.heroku.com/
+[Jekyll]: https://jekyllrb.com/
+[Middleman]: https://middlemanapp.com/
+[Nanoc]: https://nanoc.ws/
+[Netlify]: https://netlify.com
+[Rackspace]: https://www.rackspace.com/cloud/files
+[Surge]: https://surge.sh
+[contributing to it]: https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo
+[rackspace]: https://www.rackspace.com/openstack/public/files
+[static site generator]: /about/benefits/