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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 %}}
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).
- assetDir ("assets")
- The directory where Hugo finds asset files used in Hugo Pipes.
- baseURL
- Hostname (and path) to the root, e.g. http://bep.is/
- blackfriday
- See Configure Blackfriday
- 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
- canonifyURLs (false)
- Enable to turn relative URLs into absolute.
- contentDir ("content")
- The directory from where Hugo reads content files.
- dataDir ("data")
- The directory from where Hugo reads data files.
- 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/
. - 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.
- enableGitInfo (false)
- Enable
.GitInfo
object for each page (if the Hugo site is versioned by Git). This will then update theLastmod
parameter for each page using the last git commit date for that content file. - 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
- 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.
- languages
- See Configure Languages.
- languageCode ("")
- The site's language code.
- languageName ("")
- The site's language name.
- disableLanguages
- See 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).
- menu
- See Add Non-content Entries to a Menu.
- metaDataFormat ("toml")
- Front matter meta-data format. Valid values:
"toml"
,"yaml"
, or"json"
. - 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 pages per page in pagination.
- paginatePath ("page")
- The path element used during pagination (https://example.com/page/2).
- permalinks
- See Content Management.
- pluralizeListTitles (true)
- Pluralize titles in lists.
- preserveTaxonomyNames (false)
- Preserve special characters in taxonomy names ("Gérard Depardieu" vs "Gerard Depardieu").
- publishDir ("public")
- The directory to where Hugo will write the final static site (the HTML files etc.).
- pygmentsCodeFencesGuessSyntax (false)
- Enable syntax guessing for code fences without specified language.
- pygmentsStyle ("monokai")
- Color-theme or style for syntax highlighting. See Pygments Color Themes.
- pygmentsUseClasses (false)
- Enable using external CSS for syntax highlighting.
- related
- See Related Content.
- 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
orrelref
to resolve page links and a link cannot resolved, it will be logged with this logg level. Valid values areERROR
(default) orWARNING
. AnyERROR
will fail the build (exit -1
). - refLinksNotFoundURL
- URL to be used as a placeholder when a page reference cannot be found in
ref
orrelref
. Is used as-is. - rssLimit (unlimited)
- Maximum number of items in the RSS feed.
- sectionPagesMenu ("")
- See "Section Menu for Lazy Bloggers".
- sitemap
- Default sitemap configuration.
- staticDir ("static")
- A directory or a list of directories from where Hugo reads static files.
- stepAnalysis (false)
- Display memory and timing of different steps of the program.
- summaryLength (70)
- The length of text to show in a
.Summary
. - taxonomies
- See 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.
- 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 %}}
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:
./config.toml
./config.yaml
./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: post: /: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 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.
{{% /note %}}
{{< todo >}} Test and document setting params via JSON env var. {{< /todo >}}
Ignore Files When Rendering
The following statement inside ./config.toml
will cause Hugo to ignore 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:
[frontmatter]
date = ["date", "publishDate", "lastmod"]
lastmod = [":git", "lastmod", "date", "publishDate"]
publishDate = ["publishDate", "date"]
expiryDate = ["expiryDate"]
If you, as an example, have a non-standard date parameter in some of your content, you can override the setting for date
:
[frontmatter]
date = ["myDate", ":default"]
The :default
is a shortcut to the default settings. The above will set .Date
to the date value in myDate
if present, if not we will look in date
,publishDate
, lastmod
and pick the first valid date.
In the list to the right, values starting with ":" are date handlers with a special meaning (see below). The others are just names of date parameters (case insensitive) in your front matter configuration. Also note that Hugo have some built-in aliases to the above: lastmod
=> modified
, publishDate
=> pubdate
, published
and expiryDate
=> unpublishdate
. With that, as an example, using pubDate
as a date in front matter, will, by default, be assigned to .PublishDate
.
The special date handlers are:
:fileModTime
- Fetches the date from the content file's last modification timestamp.
An example:
[frontmatter]
lastmod = ["lastmod", ":fileModTime", ":default"]
The above will try first to extract the value for .Lastmod
starting with the lastmod
front matter parameter, then the content file's modification timestamp. The last, :default
should not be needed here, but Hugo will finally look for a valid date in :git
, date
and then publishDate
.
:filename
- Fetches the date from the content file's filename. For example,
2018-02-22-mypage.md
will extract the date2018-02-22
. Also, ifslug
is not set,mypage
will be used as the value for.Slug
.
An example:
[frontmatter]
date = [":filename", ":default"]
The above will try first to extract the value for .Date
from the filename, then it will look in front matter parameters date
, publishDate
and lastly lastmod
.
:git
- This is the Git author date for the last revision of this content file. This will only be set if
--enableGitInfo
is set orenableGitInfo = true
is set in site config.
Configure Blackfriday
Blackfriday is Hugo's built-in Markdown rendering engine.
Hugo typically configures Blackfriday with sane default values that should fit most use cases reasonably well.
However, if you have specific needs with respect to Markdown, Hugo exposes some of its Blackfriday behavior options for you to alter. The following table lists these Hugo options, paired with the corresponding flags from Blackfriday's source code ( html.go and markdown.go).
{{< readfile file="/content/en/readfiles/bfconfig.md" markdown="true" >}}
{{% note %}}
- Blackfriday flags are case sensitive as of Hugo v0.15.
- Blackfriday flags must be grouped under the
blackfriday
key and can be set on both the site level and the page level. Any setting on a page will override its respective site setting. {{% /note %}}
{{< code-toggle file="config" >}} [blackfriday] angledQuotes = true fractions = false plainIDAnchors = true extensions = ["hardLineBreak"] {{< /code-toggle >}}
Configure Additional Output Formats
Hugo v0.20 introduced the ability to render your content to multiple output formats (e.g., to JSON, AMP html, or CSV). See Output Formats for information on how to add these values to your Hugo project's configuration file.
Configure File Caches
Since Hugo 0.52 you can configure more than just the cacheDir
. This is the default configuration:
[caches]
[caches.getjson]
dir = ":cacheDir"
maxAge = -1
[caches.getcsv]
dir = ":cacheDir"
maxAge = -1
[caches.images]
dir = ":resourceDir/_gen"
maxAge = -1
[caches.assets]
dir = ":resourceDir/_gen"
maxAge = -1
You can override any of these cache setting in your own config.toml
.
The keywords explained
- :cacheDir
- This is the value of the
cacheDir
config option if set (can also be set via OS env variableHUGO_CACHEDIR
). It will fall back to/opt/build/cache/hugo_cache/
on Netlify, or ahugo_cache
directory below the OS temp dir for the others. This means that if you run your builds on Netlify, all caches configured with:cacheDir
will be saved and restored on the next build. For other CI vendors, please read their documentation. For an CircleCI example, see this configuration. - :resourceDir
- This is the value of the
resourceDir
config option. - maxAge
- This is the time in seconds before a cache entry will be evicted, -1 means forever and 0 effectively turns that particular cache off.
- dir
- The absolute path to where the files for this cache will be stored. Allowed starting placeholders are
:cacheDir
and:resourceDir
(see above).