# Hugo

Static site generator written in Go that builds websites from Markdown content and Go templates.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/hugo/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-18
Updated: 2026-10-25
Listed since: 2026-10-18

## Record

### Links

- home: https://gohugo.io/
- repository: https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo
- docs: https://gohugo.io/documentation/
- mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@gohugoio
- forum: https://discourse.gohugo.io/

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: The Hugo Authors
- maintainerType: community
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2013
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: ssg
- hosting: static
- language: go
- runtime: binary
- runtimeMin: unknown
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: flat-file
- databases: unknown
- adminUi: unknown
- headlessApi: unknown
- templating: go templates
- i18n: multilingual framework with single-host and multihost configurations

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: static
- renderingModes: static
- installMethod: prebuilt binary, snap, homebrew, linux distribution packages, go install, docker

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: Apache-2.0

### Releases

- currentMajor: 0
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-10-13

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 90146
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 933
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: 6148
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- urls: https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo (read 2026-10-18)
- urls: https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo (read 2026-10-18)
- urls: https://gohugo.io/ (read 2026-10-18)
- firstRelease: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24415127 (read 2026-10-18)
- maintainer: https://gohugo.io/ (read 2026-10-20)
- maintainerType: https://gohugo.io/about/introduction/ (read 2026-10-18)
- wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24415127 (read 2026-10-18)
- category: https://gohugo.io/about/introduction/ (read 2026-10-18)
- language: https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo (read 2026-10-18)
- runtime: https://gohugo.io/installation/linux/ (read 2026-10-18)
- contentStore: https://gohugo.io/content-management/formats/ (read 2026-10-18)
- templating: https://gohugo.io/templates/introduction/ (read 2026-10-18)
- i18n: https://gohugo.io/content-management/multilingual/ (read 2026-10-18)
- renderingModes: https://gohugo.io/about/introduction/ (read 2026-10-18)
- installMethod: https://gohugo.io/installation/linux/ (read 2026-10-18)
- license: https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo (read 2026-10-18)
- license: https://gohugo.io/about/license/ (read 2026-10-18)
- licenseModel: https://gohugo.io/about/license/ (read 2026-10-18)
- currentMajor: https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/latest (read 2026-10-18)
- latestReleaseDate: https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/latest (read 2026-10-18)
- githubStargazers: https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo (read 2026-10-18)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/gohugoio/hugo/contributors?anon=true (read 2026-10-18)
- runsAs: https://gohugo.io/getting-started/usage/ (read 2026-10-19)
- httpArchiveSites: https://cdn.httparchive.org/v1/technologies (read 2026-10-25)

## Notes

Hugo is a static site generator that builds websites from Markdown, HTML, Org mode and, through external tools, AsciiDoc and reStructuredText files. Templates use Go's text and html/template packages. Hugo ships as one self-contained binary, so building a site needs no separate language runtime, and the output needs only static file hosting. Multilingual sites can run on a single host or on multiple hosts. Extensions come as modules and themes, which are listed in a theme gallery. The Hugo Authors maintain it as a community project, and JetBrains and CloudCannon are named as sponsors. The [host and deploy guide](https://gohugo.io/host-and-deploy/) lists the deploy targets.

## Worth knowing

Hugo comes in standard, deploy, extended and extended/deploy builds. The deploy builds upload straight to Google Cloud Storage, AWS S3 or Azure Storage. The extended builds bundle LibSass for Sass to CSS, which the project has deprecated.

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