Noob: Hugo Module not found

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ARgh I’m tearing my hair out, I 'm sure it is something very, very simple, but I’m so new to Go and Hugo.

I’ve followed the guides for installing Hugo modules (the git submodules for themes works great!):

Here is my hugo.yaml:

baseURL: https://tongfamily.com
languageCode: en-us
title: My New Hugo Site
theme: hugo-universal-theme
module:
  imports:
    - path: github.com/devcows/hugo-universal-theme

Then I do a hugo mod get -u and I see go.mod is now:

module github.com/richtong/web-hugo

go 1.23.2

require github.com/devcows/hugo-universal-theme v0.0.0-20241011155955-cfc9f1cb7741 // indirect

But when I try to build with hugo or hugo mod graph

Total in 463 ms
Error: failed to load modules: module "hugo-universal-theme" not found in "/Users/rich/wsn/git/src/user/rich/web/web-hugo/themes/hugo-universal-theme"; either add it as a Hugo Module or store it in "/Users/rich/wsn/git/src/user/rich/web/web-hugo/themes".: module does not exist

If I put a git submodule into the themes location it all works fine

Here is my configuration from go version and hugo env

go version go1.23.2 darwin/arm64

hugo v0.135.0+extended darwin/arm64 BuildDate=2024-09-27T13:17:08Z VendorInfo=brew
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If you use a module as a theme, don’t set the theme parameter in your config.

The module import is enough.

The theme parameter is for themes physically existing on the file sytem in your themes folder

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Wow that was quick. I just found Theme as Module cannot be found and that answered it so confusing as I thought one set the other.

But with module import, then each theme is implicitly added. Thanks so much!!!

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