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diff --git a/docs/content/en/getting-started/_index.md b/docs/content/en/getting-started/_index.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..1615bdd91 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/content/en/getting-started/_index.md @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +--- +title: Get Started +linktitle: Get Started Overview +description: Quick start and guides for installing Hugo on your preferred operating system. +date: 2017-02-01 +publishdate: 2017-02-01 +lastmod: 2017-02-01 +categories: [getting started] +keywords: [usage,docs] +menu: + docs: + parent: "getting-started" + weight: 1 +weight: 0001 #rem +draft: false +aliases: [/overview/introduction/] +toc: false +--- + +If this is your first time using Hugo and you've [already installed Hugo on your machine][installed], we recommend the [quick start][]. You can also use [external learning resources][] to learn Hugo. + +[installed]: /getting-started/installing/ +[quick start]: /getting-started/quick-start/ +[external learning resources]: /getting-started/external-learning-resources/ diff --git a/docs/content/en/getting-started/code-toggle.md b/docs/content/en/getting-started/code-toggle.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..c15391b04 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/content/en/getting-started/code-toggle.md @@ -0,0 +1,79 @@ +--- +title: Code Toggle +description: Code Toggle tryout and showcase. +date: 2018-03-16 +categories: [getting started,fundamentals] +keywords: [configuration,toml,yaml,json] +weight: 60 +sections_weight: 60 +draft: false +toc: true +--- + +## The Config Toggler! + +This is an example for the Config Toggle shortcode. +Its purpose is to let users choose a Config language by clicking on its corresponding tab. Upon doing so, every Code toggler on the page will be switched to the target language. Also, target language will be saved in user's `localStorage` so when they go to a different pages, Code Toggler display their last "toggled" config language. + +{{% note %}} +The `code-toggler` shortcode is not an internal Hugo shortcode. This page's purpose is to test out a custom feature that we use throughout this site. See: https://github.com/gohugoio/gohugoioTheme/blob/master/layouts/shortcodes/code-toggle.html +{{% /note %}} + +## That Config Toggler + +{{< code-toggle file="config">}} + +baseURL: "https://yoursite.example.com/" +title: "My Hugo Site" +footnoteReturnLinkContents: "↩" +permalinks: + posts: /:year/:month/:title/ +params: + Subtitle: "Hugo is Absurdly Fast!" + AuthorName: "Jon Doe" + GitHubUser: "spf13" + ListOfFoo: + - "foo1" + - "foo2" + SidebarRecentLimit: 5 +{{< /code-toggle >}} + +## Another Config Toggler! + +{{< code-toggle file="theme">}} + +# theme.toml template for a Hugo theme + +name = "Hugo Theme" +license = "MIT" +licenselink = "https://github.com/budparr/gohugo.io/blob/master/LICENSE.md" +description = "" +homepage = "https://github.com/budparr/gohugo.io" +tags = ["website"] +features = ["", ""] +min_version = 0.18 + +[author] + name = "Bud Parr" + homepage = "https://github.com/budparr" + +{{< /code-toggle >}} + +## Two regular code blocks + +{{< code file="bf-config.toml" >}} +[blackfriday] + angledQuotes = true + fractions = false + plainIDAnchors = true + extensions = ["hardLineBreak"] +{{< /code >}} + +{{< code file="bf-config.yml" >}} +blackfriday: + angledQuotes: true + fractions: false + plainIDAnchors: true + extensions: + - hardLineBreak +{{< /code >}} diff --git a/docs/content/en/getting-started/configuration-markup.md b/docs/content/en/getting-started/configuration-markup.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..df4449bbf --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/content/en/getting-started/configuration-markup.md @@ -0,0 +1,196 @@ +--- +title: Configure Markup +description: How to handle Markdown and other markup related configuration. +date: 2019-11-15 +categories: [getting started,fundamentals] +keywords: [configuration,highlighting] +weight: 65 +sections_weight: 65 +slug: configuration-markup +toc: true +--- + +## Configure Markup + +{{< new-in "0.60.0" >}} + +See [Goldmark](#goldmark) for settings related to the default Markdown handler in Hugo. + +Below are all markup related configuration in Hugo with their default settings: + +{{< code-toggle config="markup" />}} + +**See each section below for details.** + +### Goldmark + +[Goldmark](https://github.com/yuin/goldmark/) is from Hugo 0.60 the default library used for Markdown. It's fast, it's [CommonMark](https://spec.commonmark.org/0.29/) compliant and it's very flexible. Note that the feature set of Goldmark vs Blackfriday isn't the same; you gain a lot but also lose some, but we will work to bridge any gap in the upcoming Hugo versions. + +This is the default configuration: + +{{< code-toggle config="markup.goldmark" />}} + +Some settings explained: + +unsafe +: By default, Goldmark does not render raw HTMLs and potentially dangerous links. If you have lots of inline HTML and/or JavaScript, you may need to turn this on. + +typographer +: This extension substitutes punctuations with typographic entities like [smartypants](https://daringfireball.net/projects/smartypants/). + +autoHeadingIDType ("github") {{< new-in "0.62.2" >}} +: The strategy used for creating auto IDs (anchor names). Available types are `github`, `github-ascii` and `blackfriday`. `github` produces GitHub-compatible IDs, `github-ascii` will drop any non-Ascii characters after accent normalization, and `blackfriday` will make the IDs work as with [Blackfriday](#blackfriday), the default Markdown engine before Hugo 0.60. Note that if Goldmark is your default Markdown engine, this is also the strategy used in the [anchorize](/functions/anchorize/) template func. + +### Blackfriday + + +[Blackfriday](https://github.com/russross/blackfriday) was Hugo's default Markdown rendering engine, now replaced with Goldmark. But you can still use it: Just set `defaultMarkdownHandler` to `blackfriday` in your top level `markup` config. + +This is the default config: + +{{< code-toggle config="markup.blackFriday" />}} + +### Highlight + +This is the default `highlight` configuration. Note that some of these settings can be set per code block, see [Syntax Highlighting](/content-management/syntax-highlighting/). + +{{< code-toggle config="markup.highlight" />}} + +For `style`, see these galleries: + +* [Short snippets](https://xyproto.github.io/splash/docs/all.html) +* [Long snippets](https://xyproto.github.io/splash/docs/longer/all.html) + +For CSS, see [Generate Syntax Highlighter CSS](/content-management/syntax-highlighting/#generate-syntax-highlighter-css). + +### Table Of Contents + +{{< code-toggle config="markup.tableOfContents" />}} + +These settings only works for the Goldmark renderer: + +startLevel +: The heading level, values starting at 1 (`h1`), to start render the table of contents. + +endLevel +: The heading level, inclusive, to stop render the table of contents. + +ordered +: Whether or not to generate an ordered list instead of an unordered list. + + +## Markdown Render Hooks + +{{< new-in "0.62.0" >}} + +Note that this is only supported with the [Goldmark](#goldmark) renderer. + +Render Hooks allow custom templates to override markdown rendering functionality. You can do this by creating templates with base names `render-{feature}` in `layouts/_default/_markup`. + +The features currently supported are: + +* `image` +* `link` +* `heading` {{< new-in "0.71.0" >}} + +You can define [Output-Format-](/templates/output-formats) and [language-](/content-management/multilingual/)specific templates if needed.[^hooktemplate] Your `layouts` folder may look like this: + +```bash +layouts +└── _default + └── _markup + ├── render-image.html + ├── render-image.rss.xml + └── render-link.html +``` + +Some use cases for the above: + +* Resolve link references using `.GetPage`. This would make links portable as you could translate `./my-post.md` (and similar constructs that would work on GitHub) into `/blog/2019/01/01/my-post/` etc. +* Add `target=_blank` to external links. +* Resolve and [process](/content-management/image-processing/) images. +* Add [header links](https://remysharp.com/2014/08/08/automatic-permalinks-for-blog-posts). + +### Render Hook Templates + +The `render-link` and `render-image` templates will receive this context: + +Page +: The [Page](/variables/page/) being rendered. + +Destination +: The URL. + +Title +: The title attribute. + +Text +: The rendered (HTML) link text. + +PlainText +: The plain variant of the above. + +The `render-heading` template will receive this context: + +Page +: The [Page](/variables/page/) being rendered. + +Level +: The header level (1--6) + +Anchor +: An auto-generated html id unique to the header within the page + +Text +: The rendered (HTML) text. + +PlainText +: The plain variant of the above. + +#### Link with title Markdown example: + +```md +[Text](https://www.gohugo.io "Title") +``` + +Here is a code example for how the render-link.html template could look: + +{{< code file="layouts/_default/_markup/render-link.html" >}} +<a href="{{ .Destination | safeURL }}"{{ with .Title}} title="{{ . }}"{{ end }}{{ if strings.HasPrefix .Destination "http" }} target="_blank" rel="noopener"{{ end }}>{{ .Text | safeHTML }}</a> +{{< /code >}} + +#### Image Markdown example: + +```md +![Text](https://d33wubrfki0l68.cloudfront.net/c38c7334cc3f23585738e40334284fddcaf03d5e/2e17c/images/hugo-logo-wide.svg "Title") +``` + +Here is a code example for how the render-image.html template could look: + +{{< code file="layouts/_default/_markup/render-image.html" >}} +<p class="md__image"> + <img src="{{ .Destination | safeURL }}" alt="{{ .Text }}" {{ with .Title}} title="{{ . }}"{{ end }} /> +</p> +{{< /code >}} + +#### Heading link example + +Given this template file + +{{< code file="layouts/_default/_markup/render-heading.html" >}} +<h{{ .Level }} id="{{ .Anchor | safeURL }}">{{ .Text | safeHTML }} <a href="#{{ .Anchor | safeURL }}">¶</a></h{{ .Level }}> +{{< /code >}} + +And this markdown + +```md +### Section A +``` + +The rendered html will be + +```html +<h3 id="section-a">Section A <a href="#section-a">¶</a></h3> +``` + +[^hooktemplate]: It's currently only possible to have one set of render hook templates, e.g. not per `Type` or `Section`. We may consider that in a future version. diff --git a/docs/content/en/getting-started/configuration.md b/docs/content/en/getting-started/configuration.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..be46870d6 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/content/en/getting-started/configuration.md @@ -0,0 +1,569 @@ +--- +title: Configure Hugo +linktitle: Configuration +description: How to configure your Hugo site. +date: 2013-07-01 +publishdate: 2017-01-02 +lastmod: 2017-03-05 +categories: [getting started,fundamentals] +keywords: [configuration,toml,yaml,json] +menu: + docs: + parent: "getting-started" + weight: 60 +weight: 60 +sections_weight: 60 +draft: false +aliases: [/overview/source-directory/,/overview/configuration/] +toc: true +--- + + +## Configuration File + +Hugo uses the `config.toml`, `config.yaml`, or `config.json` (if found in the +site root) as the default site config file. + +The user can choose to override that default with one or more site config files +using the command line `--config` switch. + +Examples: + +``` +hugo --config debugconfig.toml +hugo --config a.toml,b.toml,c.toml +``` + +{{% note %}} +Multiple site config files can be specified as a comma-separated string to the `--config` switch. +{{% /note %}} + +{{< todo >}}TODO: distinct config.toml and others (the root object files){{< /todo >}} + +## Configuration Directory + +In addition to using a single site config file, one can use the `configDir` directory (default to `config/`) to maintain easier organization and environment specific settings. + +- Each file represents a configuration root object, such as `Params`, `Menus`, `Languages` etc... +- Each directory holds a group of files containing settings unique to an environment. +- Files can be localized to become language specific. + + +``` +├── config +│ ├── _default +│ │ ├── config.toml +│ │ ├── languages.toml +│ │ ├── menus.en.toml +│ │ ├── menus.zh.toml +│ │ └── params.toml +│ ├── production +│ │ ├── config.toml +│ │ └── params.toml +│ └── staging +│ ├── config.toml +│ └── params.toml +``` + +Considering the structure above, when running `hugo --environment staging`, Hugo will use every settings from `config/_default` and merge `staging`'s on top of those. +{{% note %}} +Default environments are __development__ with `hugo serve` and __production__ with `hugo`. +{{%/ note %}} +## All Configuration Settings + +The following is the full list of Hugo-defined variables with their default +value in parentheses. Users may choose to override those values in their site +config file(s). + +archetypeDir ("archetypes") +: The directory where Hugo finds archetype files (content templates). {{% module-mounts-note %}} + +assetDir ("assets") +: The directory where Hugo finds asset files used in [Hugo Pipes](/hugo-pipes/). {{% module-mounts-note %}} + +baseURL +: Hostname (and path) to the root, e.g. https://bep.is/ + +blackfriday +: See [Configure Blackfriday](/getting-started/configuration-markup#blackfriday) + +build +: See [Configure Build](#configure-build) + +buildDrafts (false) +: Include drafts when building. + +buildExpired (false) +: Include content already expired. + +buildFuture (false) +: Include content with publishdate in the future. + +caches +: See [Configure File Caches](#configure-file-caches) + +canonifyURLs (false) +: Enable to turn relative URLs into absolute. + +contentDir ("content") +: The directory from where Hugo reads content files. {{% module-mounts-note %}} + +dataDir ("data") +: The directory from where Hugo reads data files. {{% module-mounts-note %}} + +defaultContentLanguage ("en") +: Content without language indicator will default to this language. + +defaultContentLanguageInSubdir (false) +: Render the default content language in subdir, e.g. `content/en/`. The site root `/` will then redirect to `/en/`. + +disableAliases (false) +: Will disable generation of alias redirects. Note that even if `disableAliases` is set, the aliases themselves are preserved on the page. The motivation with this is to be able to generate 301 redirects in an `.htaccess`, a Netlify `_redirects` file or similar using a custom output format. + +disableHugoGeneratorInject (false) +: Hugo will, by default, inject a generator meta tag in the HTML head on the _home page only_. You can turn it off, but we would really appreciate if you don't, as this is a good way to watch Hugo's popularity on the rise. + +disableKinds ([]) +: Enable disabling of all pages of the specified *Kinds*. Allowed values in this list: `"page"`, `"home"`, `"section"`, `"taxonomy"`, `"taxonomyTerm"`, `"RSS"`, `"sitemap"`, `"robotsTXT"`, `"404"`. + +disableLiveReload (false) +: Disable automatic live reloading of browser window. + +disablePathToLower (false) +: Do not convert the url/path to lowercase. + +enableEmoji (false) +: Enable Emoji emoticons support for page content; see the [Emoji Cheat Sheet](https://www.webpagefx.com/tools/emoji-cheat-sheet/). + +enableGitInfo (false) +: Enable `.GitInfo` object for each page (if the Hugo site is versioned by Git). This will then update the `Lastmod` parameter for each page using the last git commit date for that content file. + +enableInlineShortcodes (false) +: Enable inline shortcode support. See [Inline Shortcodes](/templates/shortcode-templates/#inline-shortcodes). + +enableMissingTranslationPlaceholders (false) +: Show a placeholder instead of the default value or an empty string if a translation is missing. + +enableRobotsTXT (false) +: Enable generation of `robots.txt` file. + +frontmatter + +: See [Front matter Configuration](#configure-front-matter). + +footnoteAnchorPrefix ("") +: Prefix for footnote anchors. + +footnoteReturnLinkContents ("") +: Text to display for footnote return links. + +googleAnalytics ("") +: Google Analytics tracking ID. + +hasCJKLanguage (false) +: If true, auto-detect Chinese/Japanese/Korean Languages in the content. This will make `.Summary` and `.WordCount` behave correctly for CJK languages. + +imaging +: See [Image Processing Config](/content-management/image-processing/#image-processing-config). + +languages +: See [Configure Languages](/content-management/multilingual/#configure-languages). + +languageCode ("") +: The site's language code. It is used in the default [RSS template](/templates/rss/#configure-rss) and can be useful for [multi-lingual sites](/content-management/multilingual/#configure-multilingual-multihost). + +languageName ("") +: The site's language name. + +disableLanguages +: See [Disable a Language](/content-management/multilingual/#disable-a-language) + +layoutDir ("layouts") +: The directory from where Hugo reads layouts (templates). + +log (false) +: Enable logging. + +logFile ("") +: Log File path (if set, logging enabled automatically). + +markup +: See [Configure Markup](/getting-started/configuration-markup).{{< new-in "0.60.0" >}} + +menu +: See [Add Non-content Entries to a Menu](/content-management/menus/#add-non-content-entries-to-a-menu). + +minify +: See [Configure Minify](#configure-minify) + +module +: Module config see [Module Config](/hugo-modules/configuration/).{{< new-in "0.56.0" >}} + +newContentEditor ("") +: The editor to use when creating new content. + +noChmod (false) +: Don't sync permission mode of files. + +noTimes (false) +: Don't sync modification time of files. + +paginate (10) +: Default number of elements per page in [pagination](/templates/pagination/). + +paginatePath ("page") +: The path element used during pagination (https://example.com/page/2). + +permalinks +: See [Content Management](/content-management/urls/#permalinks). + +pluralizeListTitles (true) +: Pluralize titles in lists. + +publishDir ("public") +: The directory to where Hugo will write the final static site (the HTML files etc.). + +related +: See [Related Content](/content-management/related/#configure-related-content).{{< new-in "0.27" >}} + +relativeURLs (false) +: Enable this to make all relative URLs relative to content root. Note that this does not affect absolute URLs. + +refLinksErrorLevel ("ERROR") +: When using `ref` or `relref` to resolve page links and a link cannot resolved, it will be logged with this logg level. Valid values are `ERROR` (default) or `WARNING`. Any `ERROR` will fail the build (`exit -1`). + +refLinksNotFoundURL +: URL to be used as a placeholder when a page reference cannot be found in `ref` or `relref`. Is used as-is. + +rssLimit (unlimited) +: Maximum number of items in the RSS feed. + +sectionPagesMenu ("") +: See ["Section Menu for Lazy Bloggers"](/templates/menu-templates/#section-menu-for-lazy-bloggers). + +sitemap +: Default [sitemap configuration](/templates/sitemap-template/#configure-sitemap-xml). + +staticDir ("static") +: A directory or a list of directories from where Hugo reads [static files][static-files]. {{% module-mounts-note %}} + +summaryLength (70) +: The length of text in words to show in a [`.Summary`](/content-management/summaries/#hugo-defined-automatic-summary-splitting). + +taxonomies +: See [Configure Taxonomies](/content-management/taxonomies#configure-taxonomies). + +theme ("") +: Theme to use (located by default in `/themes/THEMENAME/`). + +themesDir ("themes") +: The directory where Hugo reads the themes from. + +timeout (10000) +: Timeout for generating page contents, in milliseconds (defaults to 10 seconds). *Note:* this is used to bail out of recursive content generation, if your pages are slow to generate (e.g., because they require large image processing or depend on remote contents) you might need to raise this limit. + +title ("") +: Site title. + +titleCaseStyle ("AP") +: See [Configure Title Case](#configure-title-case) + +uglyURLs (false) +: When enabled, creates URL of the form `/filename.html` instead of `/filename/`. + +verbose (false) +: Enable verbose output. + +verboseLog (false) +: Enable verbose logging. + +watch (false) +: Watch filesystem for changes and recreate as needed. + +{{% note %}} +If you are developing your site on a \*nix machine, here is a handy shortcut for finding a configuration option from the command line: +``` +cd ~/sites/yourhugosite +hugo config | grep emoji +``` + +which shows output like + +``` +enableemoji: true +``` +{{% /note %}} + +## Configure Build + +{{< new-in "0.66.0" >}} + +The `build` configuration section contains global build-related configuration options. + +{{< code-toggle file="config">}} +[build] +useResourceCacheWhen="fallback" +writeStats = false +{{< /code-toggle >}} + + +useResourceCacheWhen +: When to use the cached resources in `/resources/_gen` for PostCSS and ToCSS. Valid values are `never`, `always` and `fallback`. The last value means that the cache will be tried if PostCSS/extended version is not available. + +writeStats {{< new-in "0.69.0" >}} +: When enabled, a file named `hugo_stats.json` will be written to your project root with some aggregated data about the build, e.g. list of HTML entities published to be used to do [CSS pruning](/hugo-pipes/postprocess/#css-purging-with-postcss). If you're only using this for the production build, you should consider placing it below [config/production](/getting-started/configuration/#configuration-directory). It's also worth mentioning that, due to the nature of the partial server builds, new HTML entities will be added when you add or change them while the server is running, but the old values will not be removed until you restart the server or run a regular `hugo` build. + +## Configure Server + +{{< new-in "0.67.0" >}} + +This is only relevant when running `hugo server`, and it allows to set HTTP headers during development, which allows you to test out your Content Security Policy and similar. The configuration format matches [Netlify's](https://docs.netlify.com/routing/headers/#syntax-for-the-netlify-configuration-file) with slighly more powerful [Glob matching](https://github.com/gobwas/glob): + + +{{< code-toggle file="config">}} +[server] +[[server.headers]] +for = "/**.html" + +[server.headers.values] +X-Frame-Options = "DENY" +X-XSS-Protection = "1; mode=block" +X-Content-Type-Options = "nosniff" +Referrer-Policy = "strict-origin-when-cross-origin" +Content-Security-Policy = "script-src localhost:1313" +{{< /code-toggle >}} + +Since this is is "development only", it may make sense to put it below the `development` environment: + + +{{< code-toggle file="config/development/server">}} +[[headers]] +for = "/**.html" + +[headers.values] +X-Frame-Options = "DENY" +X-XSS-Protection = "1; mode=block" +X-Content-Type-Options = "nosniff" +Referrer-Policy = "strict-origin-when-cross-origin" +Content-Security-Policy = "script-src localhost:1313" +{{< /code-toggle >}} + + +{{< new-in "0.72.0" >}} + +You can also specify simple redirects rules for the server. The syntax is again similar to Netlify's. + +Note that a `status` code of 200 will trigger a [URL rewrite](https://docs.netlify.com/routing/redirects/rewrites-proxies/), which is what you want in SPA situations, e.g: + +{{< code-toggle file="config/development/server">}} +[[redirects]] +from = "/myspa/**" +to = "/myspa/" +status = 200 +{{< /code-toggle >}} + + + + +## Configure Title Case + +Set `titleCaseStyle` to specify the title style used by the [title](/functions/title/) template function and the automatic section titles in Hugo. It defaults to [AP Stylebook](https://www.apstylebook.com/) for title casing, but you can also set it to `Chicago` or `Go` (every word starts with a capital letter). + +## Configuration Environment Variables + +HUGO_NUMWORKERMULTIPLIER +: Can be set to increase or reduce the number of workers used in parallel processing in Hugo. If not set, the number of logical CPUs will be used. + +## Configuration Lookup Order + +Similar to the template [lookup order][], Hugo has a default set of rules for searching for a configuration file in the root of your website's source directory as a default behavior: + +1. `./config.toml` +2. `./config.yaml` +3. `./config.json` + +In your `config` file, you can direct Hugo as to how you want your website rendered, control your website's menus, and arbitrarily define site-wide parameters specific to your project. + + +## Example Configuration + +The following is a typical example of a configuration file. The values nested under `params:` will populate the [`.Site.Params`][] variable for use in [templates][]: + +{{< code-toggle file="config">}} +baseURL: "https://yoursite.example.com/" +title: "My Hugo Site" +footnoteReturnLinkContents: "↩" +permalinks: + posts: /:year/:month/:title/ +params: + Subtitle: "Hugo is Absurdly Fast!" + AuthorName: "Jon Doe" + GitHubUser: "spf13" + ListOfFoo: + - "foo1" + - "foo2" + SidebarRecentLimit: 5 +{{< /code-toggle >}} + +## Configure with Environment Variables + +In addition to the 3 config options already mentioned, configuration key-values can be defined through operating system environment variables. + +For example, the following command will effectively set a website's title on Unix-like systems: + +``` +$ env HUGO_TITLE="Some Title" hugo +``` + +This is really useful if you use a service such as Netlify to deploy your site. Look at the Hugo docs [Netlify configuration file](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugoDocs/blob/master/netlify.toml) for an example. + +{{% note "Setting Environment Variables" %}} +Names must be prefixed with `HUGO_` and the configuration key must be set in uppercase when setting operating system environment variables. + +To set config params, prefix the name with `HUGO_PARAMS_` +{{% /note %}} + +{{< todo >}} +Test and document setting params via JSON env var. +{{< /todo >}} + +## Ignore Content Files When Rendering + +The following statement inside `./config.toml` will cause Hugo to ignore content files ending with `.foo` and `.boo` when rendering: + +``` +ignoreFiles = [ "\\.foo$", "\\.boo$" ] +``` + +The above is a list of regular expressions. Note that the backslash (`\`) character is escaped in this example to keep TOML happy. + +## Configure Front Matter + +### Configure Dates + +Dates are important in Hugo, and you can configure how Hugo assigns dates to your content pages. You do this by adding a `frontmatter` section to your `config.toml`. + + +The default configuration is: + +```toml +[frontmatter] +date = ["date", "publishDate", "lastmod"] +lastmod = [":git", "lastmod", "date", "publishDate"] +publishDate = ["publishDate", "date"] +expiryDate = ["expiryDate"] +``` |