All settings

Settings

archetypeDir

(string) The designated directory for archetypes. Default is archetypes. For a more flexible approach to configuring this directory, consult the section on module mounts.

assetDir

(string) The designated directory for global resources. Default is assets. For a more flexible approach to configuring this directory, consult the section on module mounts.

baseURL

(string) The absolute URL of your published site including the protocol, host, path, and a trailing slash.

build

See configure build.

buildDrafts

(bool) Whether to include draft content when building a site. Default is false.

buildExpired

(bool) Whether to include expired content when building a site. Default is false.

buildFuture

(bool) Whether to include future content when building a site. Default is false.

cacheDir

(string) The designated cache directory. See details.

caches

See configure file caches.

canonifyURLs

(bool) See details before enabling this feature. Default is false.

capitalizeListTitles

New in v0.123.3

(bool) Whether to capitalize automatic list titles. Applicable to section, taxonomy, and term pages. Default is true. Use the titleCaseStyle setting to configure capitalization rules.

cascade

See configure cascade.

cleanDestinationDir

(bool) Whether to remove files from the site’s destination directory that do not have corresponding files in the static directory during the build. Default is false.

contentDir

(string) The designated directory for content files. Default is content. For a more flexible approach to configuring this directory, consult the section on module mounts.

copyright

(string) The copyright notice for a site, typically displayed in the footer.

dataDir

(string) The designated directory for data files. Default is data. For a more flexible approach to configuring this directory, consult the section on module mounts.

defaultContentLanguage

(string) The project’s default language key, conforming to the syntax described in RFC 5646. This value must match one of the defined language keys. Default is en.

defaultContentLanguageInSubdir

(bool) Whether to publish the default language site to a subdirectory matching the defaultContentLanguage. Default is false.

defaultOutputFormat

(string) The default output format for the site. If unspecified, the first available format in the defined order (by weight, then alphabetically) will be used.

deployment

See configure deployment.

disableAliases

(bool) Whether to disable generation of alias redirects. Even if this option is enabled, the defined aliases will still be present on the page. This allows you to manage redirects separately, for example, by generating 301 redirects in an .htaccess file or a Netlify _redirects file using a custom output format. Default is false.

disableDefaultLanguageRedirect

New in v0.140.0

(bool) Whether to disable generation of the alias redirect to the default language when DefaultContentLanguageInSubdir is true. Default is false.

disableHugoGeneratorInject

(bool) Whether to disable injection of a <meta name="generator"> tag into the home page. Default is false.

disableKinds

([]string) A slice of page kinds to disable during the build process, any of 404, home, page, robotstxt, rss, section, sitemap, taxonomy, or term.

disableLanguages

([]string) A slice of language keys representing the languages to disable during the build process. Although this is functional, consider using the disabled key under each language instead.

disableLiveReload

(bool) Whether to disable automatic live reloading of the browser window. Default is false.

disablePathToLower

(bool) Whether to disable transformation of page URLs to lower case.

enableEmoji

(bool) Whether to allow emoji in Markdown. Default is false.

enableGitInfo

(bool) For sites under Git version control, whether to enable the GitInfo object for each page. With the default front matter configuration, the Lastmod method on a Page object will return the Git author date. Default is false.

enableMissingTranslationPlaceholders

(bool) Whether to show a placeholder instead of the default value or an empty string if a translation is missing. Default is false.

enableRobotsTXT

(bool) Whether to enable generation of a robots.txt file. Default is false.

environment

(string) The build environment. Default is production when running hugo and development when running hugo server.

frontmatter

See configure front matter.

hasCJKLanguage

(bool) Whether to automatically detect CJK languages in content. Affects the values returned by the WordCount and FuzzyWordCount methods. Default is false.

HTTPCache

See configure HTTP cache.

i18nDir

(string) The designated directory for translation tables. Default is i18n. For a more flexible approach to configuring this directory, consult the section on module mounts.

ignoreCache

(bool) Whether to ignore the cache directory. Default is false.

ignoreFiles

([]string) A slice of regular expressions used to exclude specific files from a build. These expressions are matched against the absolute file path and apply to files within the content, data, and i18n directories. For more advanced file exclusion options, see the section on module mounts.

ignoreLogs

([]string) A slice of message identifiers corresponding to warnings and errors you wish to suppress. See erroridf and warnidf.

ignoreVendorPaths

(string) A glob pattern matching the module paths to exclude from the _vendor directory.

imaging

See configure imaging.

languageCode

(string) The site’s language tag, conforming to the syntax described in RFC 5646. This value does not affect translations or localization. Hugo uses this value to populate:

• The language element in the embedded RSS template
• The lang attribute of the html element in the embedded alias template
• The og:locale meta element in the embedded Open Graph template

When present in the root of the configuration, this value is ignored if one or more language keys exists. Please specify this value independently for each language key.

languages

See configure languages.

layoutDir

(string) The designated directory for templates. Default is layouts. For a more flexible approach to configuring this directory, consult the section on module mounts.

mainSections

(string or []string) The main sections of a site. If set, the MainSections method on the Site object returns the given sections, otherwise it returns the section with the most pages.

markup

See configure markup.

mediaTypes

See configure media types.

menus

See configure menus.

minify

See configure minify.

module

See configure modules.

newContentEditor

(string) The editor to use when creating new content.

noBuildLock

(bool) Whether to disable creation of the .hugo_build.lock file. Default is false.

noChmod

(bool) Whether to disable synchronization of file permission modes. Default is false.

noTimes

(bool) Whether to disable synchronization of file modification times. Default is false.

outputFormats

See configure output formats.

outputs

See configure outputs.

page

See configure page.

pagination

See configure pagination.

panicOnWarning

(bool) Whether to panic on the first WARNING. Default is false.

params

See configure params.

permalinks

See configure permalinks.

pluralizeListTitles

(bool) Whether to pluralize automatic list titles. Applicable to section pages. Default is true.

printI18nWarnings

(bool) Whether to log WARNINGs for each missing translation. Default is false.

printPathWarnings

(bool) Whether to log WARNINGs when Hugo publishes two or more files to the same path. Default is false.

printUnusedTemplates

(bool) Whether to log WARNINGs for each unused template. Default is false.

privacy

See configure privacy.

publishDir

(string) The designated directory for publishing the site. Default is public.

refLinksErrorLevel

(string) The logging error level to use when the ref and relref functions, methods, and shortcodes are unable to resolve a reference to a page. Either ERROR or WARNING. Any ERROR will fail the build. Default is ERROR.

refLinksNotFoundURL

(string) The URL to return when the ref and relref functions, methods, and shortcodes are unable to resolve a reference to a page.

related

See configure related content.

relativeURLs

(bool) See details before enabling this feature. Default is false.

removePathAccents

(bool) Whether to remove non-spacing marks from composite characters in content paths. Default is false.

renderSegments

New in v0.124.0

([]string) A slice of segments to render. If omitted, all segments are rendered. This option is typically set via a command-line flag, such as hugo --renderSegments segment1,segment2. The provided segment names must correspond to those defined in the segments configuration.

resourceDir

(string) The designated directory for caching output from asset pipelines. Default is resources.

security

See configure security.

sectionPagesMenu

(string) When set, each top-level section will be added to the menu identified by the provided value. See details.

segments

See configure segments.

server

See configure server.

services

See configure services.

sitemap

See configure sitemap.

staticDir

(string) The designated directory for static files. Default is static. For a more flexible approach to configuring this directory, consult the section on module mounts.

summaryLength

(int) Applicable to automatic summaries, the minimum number of words returned by the Summary method on a Page object. The Summary method will return content truncated at the paragraph boundary closest to the specified summaryLength, but at least this minimum number of words. Default is 70.

taxonomies

See configure taxonomies.

templateMetrics

(bool) Whether to print template execution metrics to the console. Default is false. See details.

templateMetricsHints

(bool) Whether to print template execution improvement hints to the console. Applicable when templateMetrics is true. Default is false. See details.

theme

(string or []string) The theme to use. Multiple themes can be listed, with precedence given from left to right. See details.

themesDir

(string) The designated directory for themes. Default is themes.

timeout

(string) The timeout for generating page content, either as a duration or in seconds. This timeout is used to prevent infinite recursion during content generation. You may need to increase this value if your pages take a long time to generate, for example, due to extensive image processing or reliance on remote content. Default is 60s.

timeZone

(string) The time zone used to parse dates without time zone offsets, including front matter date fields and values passed to the time.AsTime and time.Format template functions. The list of valid values may be system dependent, but should include UTC, Local, and any location in the IANA Time Zone Database. For example, America/Los_Angeles and Europe/Oslo are valid time zones.

title

(string) The site title.

titleCaseStyle

(string) The capitalization rules to follow when Hugo automatically generates a section title, or when using the strings.Title function. One of ap, chicago, go, firstupper, or none. Default is ap. See details.

uglyurls

See configure ugly URLs.

Cache directory

Hugo’s file cache directory is configurable via the cacheDir configuration option or the HUGO_CACHEDIR environment variable. If neither is set, Hugo will use, in order of preference:

1. If running on Netlify: /opt/build/cache/hugo_cache/. This means that if you run your builds on Netlify, all caches configured with :cacheDir will be saved and restored on the next build. For other CI/CD vendors, please read their documentation. For an CircleCI example, see this configuration.
2. In a hugo_cache directory below the OS user cache directory as defined by Go’s os.UserCacheDir function. On Unix systems, per the XDG base directory specification, this is $XDG_CACHE_HOME if non-empty, else $HOME/.cache. On MacOS, this is $HOME/Library/Caches. On Windows, this is%LocalAppData%. On Plan 9, this is $home/lib/cache.
3. In a hugo_cache_$USER directory below the OS temp dir.

To determine the current cacheDir:

hugo config | grep cachedir

Title case style

Hugo’s titleCaseStyle setting governs capitalization for automatically generated section titles and the strings.Title function. By default, it follows the capitalization rules published in the Associated Press Stylebook. Change this setting to use other capitalization rules.

ap

Use the capitalization rules published in the Associated Press Stylebook. This is the default.

chicago

Use the capitalization rules published in the Chicago Manual of Style.

go

Capitalize the first letter of every word.

firstupper

Capitalize the first letter of the first word.

none

Disable transformation of automatic section titles, and disable the transformation performed by the strings.Title function. This is useful if you would prefer to manually capitalize section titles as needed, and to bypass opinionated theme usage of the strings.Title function.

Localized settings

Some configuration settings, such as menus and custom parameters, can be defined separately for each language. See configure languages.