Hugo Markdown Cheatsheet

created: 11/06/2016
updated: 04/01/2019

update: Hugo doesn’t seem to like blog posts with dates far in the future anymore. Sticking the actual cheatsheet in the lab now.

TL;DR there is a cheatsheet for Hugo Markdown available in my github, transcribed from a guide here (not all of it mind) and a couple of bits from gohugo docs.

You can make this particularly handy by keeping a cheatsheet.md post like this:

$ tree osgav/content
osgav/content
├── page
│   ├── hugo-markdown-cheatsheet.md 
│   └── projects.md
└── post
    ├── cheatsheet.md 
    ├── whois-osgav.md
    └── zerodots.md

Keep a copy of cheatsheet.md as a draft post, with a date in the future - this will make it the most recent post in your blog, so it will be the first post you see when testing locally with hugo server (and passing in the --buildDrafts parameter).

$ head content/post/cheatsheet.md
+++
author = "osgav"
date = "2070-01-01T00:00:00Z"
draft = true
slug = "cheatsheet"
tags = ["formatting-cheatsheet-dont-undraft"]
title = "cheatsheet"

+++