I’ve followed the Quick Start guide and run: hugo new site hugotest cd hugotest git init mkdir themes cd themes git submodule add https://github.com/halogenica/beautifulhugo.git beautifulhugo Now, following the Homepage Template doc, I’ve created the file content/_index.md with the following conte…

Your content/_index.md has no front matter. At minimum, you at least need empty front matter. So try something like this: --- --- Hello, world! Update: Well, nevermind, I just tested this, and looks like you can indeed have markdown content with no front matter.

Assuming you’re back at the root of your site and you’ve updated your content/_index.md as zwbetz suggested, can you try hugo server -t beautifulhugo to use the theme you installed?

Yep @bitfield , you didn’t specify your theme. So as @michael_henderson mentioned, specify it through command line, or in your config.toml like so: theme = "beautifulhugo"

You may want to try zwbetz’s excellent tutorial. [image] Tutorial: Make a Hugo blog from scratch tips & tricks Copied from the tutorial intro: In my opinion, Hugo’s current quick start is ample. It does just what the name says, gets you started you quickly . Still, th…

Struggling to get 'hello world' site to work

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mojoa January 21, 2019, 10:27pm 5

You may want to try zwbetz’s excellent tutorial.

And Mike Dane’s Youtube series for a quick start.

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Struggling to get 'hello world' site to work

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