Hugo does not allow you to write to local files, even if just appending – corect? Backgrounds: I want to show a shortened URL to each of the pages on my website, on that page. SNSes often have a character-length limit so you very often need to use shortened URLs if you want to post about the pages…

Thanks, @jmooring . That’s an interesting idea. The problem for me is that my domain name is long so this approach by itself will not really work for me, unfortunately. I need to use an external URL shortening service. However, from your post, I’ve realized that I could take advantage of the fact yo…

[image] linguaespresso: Hugo does not allow you to write to local files, even if just appending – corect? You can create files, but I don’t think you can append to an existing file. But I think Hugo does support your use case. I would try to store the data in a `Page.Store` and use resources…

Hugo Doesn't Allow Writing to Files, Correct?

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jmooring December 25, 2025, 6:52pm 2

This might be helpful:
https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/short-urls/368/4

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