Manage Environment-Specific Settings for Hugo-Based Website

In this post, I describe how I migrated the configuration of my site from a single config file with placeholders to the Hugo way of managing environment-specific settings, namely the “Configuration Directory” method. This article is the fifth part of the series “Building Your Blog, the Geeky Way”.

Automate Data Import to Algolia

Content updated on August 13, 2020

This post summarizes how to automate the manual upload of index records to Algolia if you use Netlify to host your website. With this enhancement, every time you add new or update existing content, it will be automatically indexed and uploaded to Algolia. This article is the fourth part of the series “Building Your Blog, the Geeky Way”.

Add Favicon to Hugo-Based Website

In this third article of the series, we continue enhancing the website that we created earlier. This time I will demonstrate you how to generate a favicon image set and integrate it with a website implemented with Hugo.

Configure Custom Domain and HTTPS on Netlify

In the previous post, I showed you how to create a Hugo-based website and deploy it on Netlify. It’s time to make some improvements, namely, configure DNS records, set up a custom domain and enable HTTPS.

Start Blogging With Hugo, GitHub and Netlify

By this post, I start a series where I share my experience in how to start a journey as a blogger from a technical perspective. This tutorial will show you how to set up from scratch a blog using Hugo, GitHub and Netlify.