Posts tagged hugo

Hugo on GitHub Pages with GitHub Actions

The modern alternative for deploying non-jekyll pages to GitHub Pages

Enabling footnotes in Hugo

I've been unable to find concrete instructions for this, but my ecosia-fu might be off today. In either case, this is how you set up footnotes for Hugo:

Hugo footnotes aren't actually part of Hugo, but are a feature from, at least, goldmark. Enabling it is surprisingly trivial¹:

markup:
  goldmark:
    extensions:
      footnote: true
    renderer:
      # Not entirely clear on whether this is required or not, but feel free to play around with it
      unsafe: true
      footnoteAnchorPrefix: ""
      footnoteReturnLinkContents: "^"

And for a bit of recursion, the source code for this file:

Hugo on GitHub Pages

Deploying Hugo isn't nearly as trivial as Jekyll, but it's absolutely doable.