Closing Remarks

Estimated time: 3 minutes

Overview

Questions

• What have we learned?
• What are the next steps?

Objectives

• Consolidate and reflect on what we’ve learned

So here’s what we’ve achieved over the course of this lesson.

• We’ve setup a repository on GitHub with a Hugo site template and a theme via a git submodule
• We’ve added a Continuous Deployment pipeline that automatically builds our website and publishes it to GitHub Pages whenever we merge a change, using GitHub Actions as a vendor
• We’ve created a new post with Hugo and added content, including updating our profile picture and embedding content from external sources using shortcodes

From here, you can:

• Continue to use the site as it is and begin publishing your blogs
• Further customise your site by editing the config.toml file (see the anatole documentation and this config file for examples)
• Or try implementing a new theme from https://themes.gohugo.io/! You can do this by running the git submodule add command again with your new theme and then updating the config.toml file.

Using a new theme

Be warned, some settings we’ve used during this lesson may break when changing themes! Always check the theme’s example documentation!

We hope you’ve enjoyed learning how to get setup with Hugo and GitHub Pages. Happy blogging!

Key Points

• We’ve setup a repository on GitHub with a Hugo site template and a theme via a git submodule
• We’ve added a Continuous Deployment pipeline that automatically builds our website and publishes it to GitHub Pages whenever we merge a change, using GitHub Actions as a vendor
• We’ve created a new post with Hugo and added content, including updating our profile picture and embedding content from external sources using shortcodes
• The theme can be changed by running a new git submodule add command, but the configuration file will need updating