Managing content

This is a brief guide to managing content with the Academic framework. Content can include publications, projects, talks, news/blog articles, and widget pages. After you have read this guide about creating and managing content, you may also be interested to learn about writing content with Markdown, LaTeX, and Shortcodes.

To enable LaTeX math rendering for a page, you should include math = true in the page’s +++ preamble, as demonstrated in the included example site. Otherwise, to enable math on the homepage or for all pages, you must globally set math = true in config.toml.

To disable source code highlighting by default for all pages, set highlight = false in config.toml. You can then enable source code highlighting only on pages that need it by setting highlight = true in that page’s preamble. See the code-highlighting docs for more details.

To display a featured image in content page headers, the parameters below can be inserted towards the end of a page’s +++ preamble. It is assumed that the image is located in your static/img/ folder, so the full path in the example below will be static/img/headers/getting-started.png. The caption parameter can be used to write an image caption or credit.

[header]
image = "headers/getting-started.png"
caption = "Image credit: [**Academic**](https://github.com/gcushen/hugo-academic/)"

Table of Contents

Create a publication

To create a new publication:

hugo new publication/my-paper-name.md

Then edit the default variables at the top of content/publication/my-paper-name.md to include the details of your publication. The url_ variables are used to generate links associated with your publication, such as for viewing PDFs of papers. Here is an example:

+++
abstract = "An abstract..."
authors = ["First author's name", "Second author's name"]
date = "2013-07-01"
image = ""
image_preview = ""
math = false
publication = "The publishing part of the citation goes here. You may use *Markdown* for italics etc."
title = "A publication title, such as title of a paper"
url_code = ""
url_dataset = ""
url_pdf = "pdf/my-paper-name.pdf"
url_project = ""
url_slides = ""
url_video = ""
+++

Further details on your publication can be written here using *Markdown* for formatting. This text will be displayed on the Publication Detail page.

The url_ links can either point to local or web content. Associated local publication content, such as PDFs, may be copied to a static/pdf/ folder and referenced like url_pdf = "pdf/my-paper-name.pdf".

You can also associate custom link buttons with the publication by adding the following block(s) within the variable preamble above, which is denoted by +++:

[[url_custom]]
    name = "Custom Link"
    url = "http://www.example.org"

If you set list_format=2 to enable a detailed listing of publications in the Publication Widget (home/publications.md) or Publication Archive (publication/_index.md), then there are a few more optional variables that you can include in the publication page preamble. You may use abstract_short = "friendly summary of abstract" and publication_short = "abbreviated publication details" to display a friendly summary of the abstract and abbreviate the publication details, respectively. Furthermore, there is the option to display a different image on the homepage to the publication detail page by setting image_preview = "my-image.jpg". This can be useful if you wish to scale down the image for the homepage or simply if you just wish to show a different image for the preview.

Create a blog post

To create a blog/news article:

hugo new post/my-article-name.md

Then edit the newly created file content/post/my-article-name.md with your full title and content.

Hugo will automatically generate summaries of posts that appear on the homepage. If you are dissatisfied with an automated summary, you can either limit the summary length by appropriately placing <!--more--> in the article body, or completely override the automated summary by adding a summary parameter to the +++ preamble such that:

summary = "Summary of my post."

To disable commenting for a specific post, you can add disable_comments = true to the post +++ preamble. Or to disable commenting for all posts, you can either set disqusShortname = "" or disable_comments = true in config.toml.

Create a project

To create a project:

hugo new project/my-project-name.md

Then edit the newly created file content/project/my-project-name.md. Either you can link the project to an external project website by setting the external_link = "http://external-project.com" variable at the top of the file, or you can add content (below the final +++) in order to render a project page on your website.

Create a talk

To create a talk:

hugo new talk/my-talk-name.md

Then edit the newly created file content/talk/my-talk-name.md with your full talk title and details. Note that many of the talk parameters are similar to the publication parameters.

Create a widget page

So you would like to create a page which utilizes Academic’s widget system, similar to the homepage?

Create a new folder in your content folder, naming it with your new page name. In this example, we will create a courses page by creating a content/courses/ folder.

Within your new content/courses/ folder, create a file named _index.md containing the following parameters:

+++
title = "Courses"
date = 2017-01-01
widgets = true
+++

Install widgets into your content/courses/ folder. To achieve this, widgets can be copied from your content/home/ folder or downloaded from Github.

Create other pages (e.g. CV)

For other types of content, it is possible to create your own custom pages. For example, let’s create a cv.md page for your Curriculum Vitae in your content folder. Copy across the frontmatter from the top of one of your post files, adapting it as necessary, and editing your Markdown content below. You can then link to your new page by adding the code [My CV]{{< ref "cv.md" >}} to any of your existing content.

Alternatively, for the above example, we could use a PDF of your Curriculum Vitae. For this purpose, create a folder called files within your static folder and move a PDF file named cv.pdf to that location, so we have a static/files/cv.pdf file path. The PDF can then be linked to from any content by using the code: {{% staticref "files/cv.pdf" %}}Download my CV{{% /staticref %}}.

Manage node index pages

The node index pages (e.g. /post/) are the special pages which list all of your content. They can exist for blog posts, publications, and talks. The homepage widgets will automatically link to the node index pages when you have more items of content than can be displayed in the widget. Therefore, if you don’t have much content, you may not see the automatic links yet - but you can also manually link to them using a normal Markdown formatted link in your content.

You can edit the title and add your own content, such as an introduction, by creating and editing the following content files for the node indexes:

hugo new post/_index.md
hugo new publication/_index.md
hugo new talk/_index.md

Then remove all parameters except for title, math, highlight, and date. Edit the title parameter as desired and add any content after the +++ preamble/frontmatter ends. For example, you should have something similar to:

+++
title = "List of my posts"
date = "2017-01-01T00:00:00Z"
math = false
highlight = false
+++

Below is an automatically generated list of all my blog posts!

Removing content

Generally, to remove content, simply delete the relevant file from your content/post, content/publication, content/project, or content/talk folder.

View your updated site

After you have made changes to your site, you can view it by running the hugo server --watch command and then opening localhost:1313 in your web browser.

Deploy your site

Finally, you can build the static website to a public/ folder ready for deployment using the hugo command.

You may then deploy your site by copying the public/ directory (by FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Rsync, git push, etc.) to your production web server.

Note that running hugo does not remove any previously generated files before building. Therefore, it’s best practice to delete your public/ directory prior to running hugo to ensure no old or interim files are deployed to your server.