Create a Blog with Hugo and GitHub Pages

June 24, 2021

As a scientist in today’s ever connected, digital world, having a platform to talk about one’s work can be a really useful tool. Whether you’re looking to strike up new collaborations or promote your freshly published paper, a blog can help signal boost your work and function as an archive of your ideas (the developed and forgotten).

I put together a tutorial for building a blog site from scratch using Hugo and GitHub Pages - the same tools I use to host this site!

:information: The website has moved!

This lesson has now been transferred to the Carpentries Incubator and can be found here: carpentries-incubator.github.io/blogging-with-hugo-and-github-pages/

  • :sparkles: You can find the written instructions here: sgibson91.github.io/blogging-with-hugo-and-github-pages/ carpentries-incubator/blogging-with-hugo-and-github-pages
  • :sparkles: You can also follow along with the YouTube video below. I go quite fast :rocket: so feel free to pause and rewind as much as you need!

Thanks

  • :sparkles: Whitaker Lab for letting me trial this tutorial on them and recording it!
  • :sparkles: The Carpentries for their fantastic lesson template to create the website
  • :sparkles: The Turing Way for hosting the video on their YouTube account