I’m just starting out with Hugo. I created a simple site made up of a half dozen .md pages (saved to content/docs/) and based on an intro “home” page whose content was added to content/_index.md. I’m using the Book theme.
The site works perfectly on my local machine running hugo server --minify --theme book, but I’m having trouble building so I can push it to a public site. Running hugo -e builds a file system in public/, but also spits out errors like:
found no layout file for “HTML” for kind “page”: You should create a template file which matches Hugo Layouts Lookup Rules for this combination
I figured I would look for a helpful example of the template files I’d need. So I created a test site using a fresh, unchanged version of the Book theme. Once again, it ran beautifully on my local machine. But trying to build this version also failed, again complaining about template files:
Error: Error building site: “…test/content/_index.md:8:1”: failed to extract shortcode: template for shortcode “columns” not found
Is it normal that the Hugo build process is non-functioning out of the box? Are there documentation resources where I can find simple example templates to get started?
Thanks!
