Viewing/testing Hugo posts locally

I usually write posts and run a local instance of Hugo on a Docker container, so I can check spelling and post flow.

Most of the time, I notice something that needs to be changed prior to actually going live with a post on this site.

This is a basic walkthrough for myself on how to …

Hugo posts with a Table of Contents

For some of my lengthier posts, a table of contents (TOC) would help with reading the post, and especially when going over certain parts of the posts.

A good example is the original 'Wireguard VPN access' post I made (https://www.nodinrogers.com/post/2022-01-01-wireguard ), which had …

When I first started using/testing Hugo, I was using a Linux virtual machine to run it.

After I decided to use it, I wanted to move it from needing a full virtual machine to a Docker container.

This was especially important, given the nature of Hugo, as a minimal application that doesn't require a lot of resources. …

I really like the look of the Hugo Zzo theme, but I changed the tag cloud that is displayed in the sidebar.

The unmodified sidebar displays the tags, with the number of posts tagged with the tag in question.

What I wanted was a variable font for the tags, with a bigger font for tags that had more posts.

Rather than …

My start-to-finish customization of the Zzo Hugo theme.

Reference for myself, in case I need to reinvent the wheel.

This is still a work in progress...

Install Hugo

I'm using the 0.88.1 extended version, which at this time, is also the latest version.

wget …

After getting Hugo configured and generated some content (posts), I wanted a(n easier) way to get them to the AWS S3 bucket for my website.

The manual way was to log into https://console.aws.amazon.com, go to the S3 page, select the bucket for the website, and upload the content.

Thankfully, Hugo has built-in …