Deploy your own blog for free using Hugo + GitHub Pages + GitHub Action

Table of Contents

• Immediately useful links
• Background links

Source code for this blog lives on master branch here. The actual assets for the website live on the gh-pages branch here and is posted automatically via the GitHub Action here.

Immediately useful links

• hugo-clarity theme
  • hugo-clarity github repo
• GitHub Action for setting up Hugo
  • make sure to do “Hugo extended version”
• GitHub Action for deploying to GitHub Pages
  • make sure to enable manual deployments to enable debugging
  • make sure to point to gh-pages branch in repo settings for GitHub Pages

Background links

• GitHub docs about creating GitHub Pages
• Hugo Themes
• Hugo Quick Start Docs