PaperMod

Theme configuration Now that we have our initial blog ready, we need to configure it. Most configuration parameters belong to our chosen theme, there is an example config.yml file in the paperMod theme repository: https://github.com/adityatelange/hugo-PaperMod/blob/be00e5a557212de1067016f0fe8a4aa00d23f2e2/config.yml Some important values to update are: baseURL params.title params.description params.keywords params.editPost.URL menu.main googleAnalytics Others are optional and depend on the features of your theme that you want to use. After you update those values, we can review them by running hugo server, With this, we can see our initial page with its header, main content, and footer rendered properly with our config....

To create your blog, you need to follow some steps: Install Hugo Create a new sit Add a theme Sync a push to a remote git repository Installing Hugo There are some alternatives to installing Hugo. Let’s use Homebrew (Linux and MacOS). brew install hugo Creating a new site Run the following command hugo new site <site-name> -f yaml hugo new site alejandro-blog -f yaml That command will create a new site in the current folder with the name alejandro-blog and it will output something similar to this:...

Where do I start? Well, you need somewhere to host your publications. There are plenty of alternatives from low to high complexity. To name a few nowadays, we use: Wordpress (with deployment as SaaS, hosting-services, self-hosted) Git backed Gitlab pages Github pages Static generators Hugo Gatsby Jekyll Nuxt Medium Ghost Each one having its own set of advantages and drawbacks on blog creation, daily use, deployment and maintenance What alternatives should I choose?...