# New to hugo - content/posts do not display anything

**URL:** <https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/new-to-hugo-content-posts-do-not-display-anything/28298>\
**Category:** support\
**Created:** [September 19, 2020, 11:37pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/new-to-hugo-content-posts-do-not-display-anything/28298 "2020-09-19T23:37:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![t-lark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@t-lark](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/t-lark)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2020, 11:37pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/new-to-hugo-content-posts-do-not-display-anything/28298/1 "2020-09-19T23:37:32Z")

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Hello all,  
I will try to keep this simple and straight forward. I am brand new to Hugo and just installed it today. However, I am now asking for help as the past 2-3 hours google searching has not fixed my issues yet. Used the docs from the main quickstart guide and a youtube video to get me where I am at. I installed the base16 theme and customized it a bit (just text) and that loads fine

Here is the directory tree of my local site

```
% tree
.
├── quickstart
│ ├── archetypes
│ │ └── default.md
│ ├── config.toml
│ ├── content
│ │ └── posts
│ │ ├── my-first-post.md
│ │ └── second-post.md
│ ├── data
│ ├── layouts
│ │ └── partials
│ │ └── hero.html
│ ├── public
│ │ ├── 404.html
│ │ ├── categories
│ │ │ ├── index.html
│ │ │ ├── index.xml
│ │ │ └── page
│ │ │ └── 1
│ │ │ └── index.html
│ │ ├── css
│ │ │ ├── style.css
│ │ │ └── style.css.map
│ │ ├── img
│ │ │ └── base16-eighties.svg
│ │ ├── index.html
│ │ ├── index.xml
│ │ ├── page
│ │ │ └── 1
│ │ │ └── index.html
│ │ ├── posts
│ │ │ ├── index.html
│ │ │ ├── index.xml
│ │ │ ├── my-first-post
│ │ │ │ └── index.html
│ │ │ ├── page
│ │ │ │ └── 1
│ │ │ │ └── index.html
│ │ │ └── second-post
│ │ │ └── index.html
│ │ ├── sitemap.xml
│ │ └── tags
│ │ ├── index.html
│ │ ├── index.xml
│ │ └── page
│ │ └── 1
│ │ └── index.html
│ ├── resources
│ │ └── _gen
│ │ ├── assets
│ │ └── images
│ ├── static
│ └── themes
│ └── base16
│ ├── LICENSE
│ ├── README.md
│ ├── archetypes
│ │ └── default.md
│ ├── gulpfile.js
│ ├── images
│ │ ├── screenshot.png
│ │ └── tn.png
│ ├── layouts
│ │ ├── 404.html
│ │ ├── _default
│ │ │ ├── list.html
│ │ │ └── single.html
│ │ ├── index.html
│ │ └── partials
│ │ ├── article-list-item.html
│ │ ├── article.html
│ │ ├── footer.html
│ │ ├── header.html
│ │ ├── hero.html
│ │ ├── homepage.html
│ │ └── paginator.html
│ ├── package-lock.json
│ ├── package.json
│ ├── src
│ │ └── css
│ │ └── style.css
│ ├── static
│ │ ├── css
│ │ │ ├── style.css
│ │ │ └── style.css.map
│ │ └── img
│ │ └── base16-eighties.svg
│ └── theme.toml
└── themes
    └── base16
        ├── LICENSE
        ├── README.md
        ├── archetypes
        │ └── default.md
        ├── gulpfile.js
        ├── images
        │ ├── screenshot.png
        │ └── tn.png
        ├── layouts
        │ ├── 404.html
        │ ├── _default
        │ │ ├── list.html
        │ │ └── single.html
        │ ├── index.html
        │ └── partials
        │ ├── article-list-item.html
        │ ├── article.html
        │ ├── footer.html
        │ ├── header.html
        │ ├── hero.html
        │ ├── homepage.html
        │ └── paginator.html
        ├── package-lock.json
        ├── package.json
        ├── src
        │ └── css
        │ └── style.css
        ├── static
        │ ├── css
        │ │ ├── style.css
        │ │ └── style.css.map
        │ └── img
        │ └── base16-eighties.svg
        └── theme.toml

```

the contents of my config.toml file

```
baseURL = "https://mysite.github.io/"
languageCode = "en-us"
title = "mysite"
theme = "base16"

```

The site just renders this and my posts are not visible at all. I am starting hugo with the -D flag to publish the drafts as well and have tried flipping the draft value from true to false, and it does not work

This is all the renders with none of my mark down files I created

 ![Screen Shot 2020-09-19 at 4.34.22 PM](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/gohugo/original/2X/c/c2ba792f2ed17135a90f91df199b1fc2c0b4ad44.png)

Thank you in advance for helping out a noob.

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**Author:** ![pamubay](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/pamubay/32/17838_2.png) [@pamubay](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/pamubay)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2020, 11:56pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/new-to-hugo-content-posts-do-not-display-anything/28298/2 "2020-09-19T23:56:49Z")

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rename `content/posts` to `content/post`

as you can see here, the layout trying to list the content under `post` section.

> <https://github.com/htdvisser/hugo-base16-theme/blob/master/layouts/partials/homepage.html#L8>

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**Author:** ![t-lark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@t-lark](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/t-lark)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2020, 12:16am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/new-to-hugo-content-posts-do-not-display-anything/28298/3 "2020-09-20T00:16:51Z")

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wow that fixed it, and I feel like a dummy. However, many thanks for your help kind person from the web

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**Author:** ![system](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/system/32/1_2.png) [@system](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2020, 12:17am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/new-to-hugo-content-posts-do-not-display-anything/28298/4 "2020-09-22T00:17:07Z")

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