
Hugo
Static site generator written in Go that builds websites from Markdown content and Go templates.
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 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.
Identity
Rendering and deploy
- Runs as
- Static files12
- Rendering
- Static output4
- Install with
- prebuilt binary, snap, homebrew, linux distribution packages, go install, docker5
Releases
Adoption
Sources
- 2026-10-18: links, Written in, License, GitHub stars
github.com/gohugoio/hugo - 2026-10-18: links, Maintainer
gohugo.io/ - 2026-10-18: First release, wikidata
www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24415127 - 2026-10-18: Maintained by, Categories, Rendering
gohugo.io/about/introduction/ - 2026-10-18: Runtime, Install with
gohugo.io/installation/linux/ - 2026-10-18: Content storage
gohugo.io/content-management/formats/ - 2026-10-18: Templating
gohugo.io/templates/introduction/ - 2026-10-18: Multilingual
gohugo.io/content-management/multilingual/ - 2026-10-18: License, License model
gohugo.io/about/license/ - 2026-10-18: Current major version, Last release
github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/latest - 2026-10-18: Contributors
api.github.com/repos/gohugoio/hugo/contributors?anon=true - 2026-10-19: Runs as
gohugo.io/getting-started/usage/ - 2026-10-25: Sites using it (HTTP Archive)
cdn.httparchive.org/v1/technologies