Create Blog With HUGO

Before create your blog, make sure you have these steps completed:

• You have Git 2.8 or greater. How To Install Git on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

• You have a GitHub account. GitHub

• You have HUGO installed. Install HUGO on Debian and Ubuntu

• Create Site or blog to publish. Create a new Site (Add a Theme here, chose wathever you want Hugo Themes)

Follow these steps to put your website on GitHub

1. Now it’s time to create a repository on GitHub: <USERNAME>.github.io, this is the repository will contain the fully rendered version of your Hugo website.
2. Make your website work locally(hugo server -t <YOURTHEME>). Open your browser to http://localhost:1313.
3. git submodule add -b master git@github.com:<USERNAME>/<USERNAME>.github.io.git public. This creates a git submodule and a folder called ‘public’ , perhaps you will see a warning related to the folder recently created, please ommit it. Now you can see an empty folder ‘public’.
4. run hugo, once done press CTRL + C and the ‘public’ folder will have all the content rendered
5. Here you have a script to automate all the process, once you create a new post you can execute this script: Script on GitHub