Hugo Features
General
- Extremely fast build times (< 1 ms per page)
- Completely cross platform, with easy installation on macOS, Linux, Windows, and more
- Renders changes on the fly with LiveReload as you develop
- Powerful theming
- Host your site anywhere
Organization
- Straightforward organization for your projects, including website sections
- Customizable URLs
- Support for configurable taxonomies, including categories and tags
- Sort content as you desire through powerful template functions
- Automatic table of contents generation
- Dynamic menu creation
- Pretty URLs support
- Permalink pattern support
- Redirects via aliases
Content
- Native Markdown and Emacs Org-Mode support, as well as other languages via external helpers (see supported formats)
- TOML, YAML, and JSON metadata support in front matter
- Customizable homepage
- Multiple content types
- Automatic and user defined content summaries
- Shortcodes to enable rich content inside of Markdown
- “Minutes to Read” functionality
- “Wordcount” functionality
Additional Features
- Integrated Disqus comment support
- Integrated Google Analytics support
- Automatic RSS creation
- Support for Go, Amber, and Ace HTML templates
- Syntax highlighting powered by Chroma (partly compatible with Pygments)