Tag: frontmatter

  • Static Web Generators and CMSes

    Static Web Generators and CMSes

    Reading Time: 3 minutesFor weeks, or even months, by now I have been playing/experimenting with Hugo, 11ty and other solutions. I really like that with Hugo I can use FrontMatter as a CMS to create new posts, add the appropriate meta data, and keep track of what is published and what is in draft form.…

  • YQ, FrontMatter and Jekyll

    YQ, FrontMatter and Jekyll

    Reading Time: 4 minutesFor two days I have been trying to understand how to use Jekyll, a Ruby version of Hugo. It is a Static website generator that is similar to Hugo but rather than being written in Go, it is written in Ruby. I find that it renders sites faster than Hugo, but that…

  • Playing with Front Matter

    Playing with Front Matter

    Reading Time: 2 minutesFor those who want to use Hugo, but find post creation and management complicated there is a FrontMatter plugin that should help. This is a plugin that makes it easy to create new posts in the category of your choice. It automatically creates the title, description field, that you need to populate,…