These very high level steps helped a friend set up a Hugo site.
Set up Your GitHub Pages
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Create a new GitHub account.
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Create a GitHub public repository for GitHub Pages.
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Clone that repository to your local machine.
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Publish your first plain text file as a GitHub Page. Done. Milestone achieved!
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Get distracted by learning PowerShell, Git, and NeoVim. Yah!
Set up Your Hugo Site
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Install Hugo! (
choco install hugo). -
Create a new Hugo site (
hugo new site <some-name>). -
Add a theme and make sure to set your baseURL.
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Write your first blog post in
content/posts/some-title.md.