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title: "Hugo Builders"
linktitle: "Builders"
date: "2014-05-26"
weight: 12
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Hugo provides the functionality to quickly get a site, theme or page
started.
## New Site
Want to get a site built quickly?.
hugo new site /path/to/site
Hugo will create all the needed directories and files to get started
quickly.
Hugo will only touch the files and create the directories (in the right
places), [configuration](/overview/configuration) and content are up to
you... but luckily we have builders for content (see below).
## New Theme
Want to design a new theme?
hugo new theme `THEME_NAME`
Run from your working directory, this will create a new theme with all
the needed files in your themes directory. Hugo will provide you with a
license and theme.toml file with most of the work done for you.
Follow the [Theme Creation Guide](/themes/creation) once the builder is
done.
## New Content
You will use this builder the most of all. Every time you want to create
a new piece of content, the content builder will get you started right.
Leveraging [content archetypes](/content/archetypes) the content builder
will not only insert the current date and appropriate metadata, but it
will pre-populate values based on the content type.
hugo new relative/path/to/content
This assumes it is being run from your working directory and the content
path starts from your content directory.
I typically keep two different terminals open, one to run `hugo server
--watch`, and another to use the builders to create new content.