https://www.nonpunctual.org/tags/yaml/Recent content in Yaml on nonpunctualHugoenThu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.nonpunctual.org/posts/interactively-create-hugo-content-with-frontmatter/Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.nonpunctual.org/posts/interactively-create-hugo-content-with-frontmatter/<figure><img src="https://www.nonpunctual.org/images/hugo.png" alt="Desktop"><figcaption> <p>The Hugo &ldquo;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droste_effect" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Droste Effect</a>&rdquo;.</p> </figcaption> </figure> <br> <p>I&rsquo;ve been working on <a href="https://www.nonpunctual.org/" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nonpunctual.org</a> quite a bit lately. It might not show - websites are harder than they look.</p> <p>One of the things that is very helpful in <a href="https://gohugo.io/" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hugo</a> for creating new content is the <a href="https://gohugo.io/content-management/archetypes/" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">archetypes</a> schema. Hugo users can create &ldquo;archetype&rdquo; files in their project - <code>.md</code> file templates that can be populated with:</p> <ul> <li>auto-generated content file metadata (frontmatter)</li> <li>markdown formatting / document structure <ul> <li>headers</li> <li>lists</li> <li>links</li> <li>raw HTML</li> <li>text</li> <li>etc.</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="https://gohugo.io/content-management/shortcodes/" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shortcodes</a></li> <li>etc.</li> </ul> <p>You can even use archetypes to create directory structures for content (which I am using for photos).</p>