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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

Status
Active
Maintainer
The Hugo Authors2
Maintained by
Community4
First release
20133

Rendering and deploy

Runs as
Static files12
Rendering
Static output4
Install with
prebuilt binary, snap, homebrew, linux distribution packages, go install, docker5

Releases

Current major version
Pre-1.010
Last release
2026-10-1310

Adoption

GitHub stars
90,1461
Contributors
93311
Sites using it (HTTP Archive)
6,14813

Why these figures do not compare

Sources

  1. 2026-10-18: links, Written in, License, GitHub stars
    github.com/gohugoio/hugo
  2. 2026-10-18: links, Maintainer
    gohugo.io/
  3. 2026-10-18: First release, wikidata
    www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24415127
  4. 2026-10-18: Maintained by, Categories, Rendering
    gohugo.io/about/introduction/
  5. 2026-10-18: Runtime, Install with
    gohugo.io/installation/linux/
  6. 2026-10-18: Content storage
    gohugo.io/content-management/formats/
  7. 2026-10-18: Templating
    gohugo.io/templates/introduction/
  8. 2026-10-18: Multilingual
    gohugo.io/content-management/multilingual/
  9. 2026-10-18: License, License model
    gohugo.io/about/license/
  10. 2026-10-18: Current major version, Last release
    github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/latest
  11. 2026-10-18: Contributors
    api.github.com/repos/gohugoio/hugo/contributors?anon=true
  12. 2026-10-19: Runs as
    gohugo.io/getting-started/usage/
  13. 2026-10-25: Sites using it (HTTP Archive)
    cdn.httparchive.org/v1/technologies

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