Hugo is a static site generator written in Go, optimized for speed and designed for flexibility. With its advanced templating system and fast asset pipelines, Hugo renders a complete site in seconds, often less.
Due to its flexible framework, multilingual support, and powerful taxonomy system, Hugo is widely used to create:
Corporate, government, nonprofit, education, news, event, and project sites
Documentation sites
Image portfolios
Landing pages
Business, professional, and personal blogs
Resumes and CVs
Use Hugo's embedded web server during development to instantly see changes to content, structure, behavior, and presentation. Then deploy the site to your host, or push changes to your Git provider for automated builds and deployment.
Hugo's fast asset pipelines include:
CSS Processing – Bundle, transform, minify, create source maps, perform SRI hashing, and integrate with PostCSS.
Image processing – Convert, resize, crop, rotate, adjust colors, apply filters, overlay text and images, and extract metadata
JavaScript bundling – Transpile TypeScript and JSX to JavaScript, bundle, tree shake, minify, create source maps, and perform SRI hashing.
Sass processing – Transpile Sass to CSS, bundle, tree shake, minify, create source maps, perform SRI hashing, and integrate with PostCSS
Tailwind CSS processing – Compile Tailwind CSS utility classes into standard CSS, bundle, tree shake, optimize, minify, perform SRI hashing, and integrate with PostCSS
And with Hugo Modules, you can share content, assets, data, translations, themes, templates, and configuration with other projects via public or private Git repositories.
See the features section of the documentation for a comprehensive summary of Hugo's capabilities.
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Editions
Hugo is available in several editions. Use the standard edition unless you need additional features.
Feature
standard
deploy
extended
extended/deploy
Core features
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Direct cloud deployment (1)
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LibSass support (2)
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(1) Deploy your site directly to a Google Cloud Storage bucket, an AWS S3 bucket, or an Azure Storage container. See details.
(2) Transpile Sass to CSS via embedded LibSass. Note that embedded LibSass was deprecated in v0.153.0 and will be removed in a future release. Use the Dart Sass transpiler instead, which is compatible with any edition.
Installation
Install Hugo from a prebuilt binary, package manager, or package repository. Please see the installation instructions for your operating system:
Please do not use the issue queue for questions or troubleshooting. Unless you are certain that your issue is a software defect, use the forum.
Hugo's forum is an active community of users and developers who answer questions, share knowledge, and provide examples. A quick search of over 20,000 topics will often answer your question. Please be sure to read about requesting help before asking your first question.
