{ "title": "Configuring Hugo", "Pubdate": "2013-07-01" } The directory structure and templates provide the majority of the configuration for a site. In fact a config file isn't even needed for many websites since the defaults used follow commonly used patterns. The following is an example of a config file with the default values { "SourceDir" : "content", "LayoutDir" : "layouts", "PublishDir" : "public", "BuildDrafts" : false, "Tags" : { "category" : "categories", "tag" : "tags" }, "BaseUrl" : "http://yourSite.com/" }