Using CSV file to create individual posts on build

[alexandros]

@dixonge

The workflow I envision is to add an entry to the CSV file, then have hugo create the resulting html file during the build process (or using LiveReload locally).

We’re not there yet. That would be an ideal scenario but as @zwbetz mentioned hopefully this will be possible once Build pages from data source · Issue #5074 · gohugoio/hugo · GitHub is addressed.

Currently the way I am creating separate Markdown files from a CSV is outlined here:

Work-around for making pages from data?

Ha! Thanks so much for that @bep I wouldn’t have thought of using Hugo environment variables this way! @gaetawoo Here is a working example based on the code snippets given in this excellent topic: [Solved] CSV data key lookup Contents of /data/abc.csv id, description, color, number, cat, image 110, blue pearl, blue, 10, pearls, bpearl.jpg 111, green pearl, green, 12, pearls, gpearl.jpg 112, orange peel, orange, 19, fruit, opeel.jpg Contents of archetype under /archetypes/post.md {{-…