Frontmatter

Each content file, ie an index.md for a leaf or _index.md for a branch, has what Hugo calls front matter, id metadata that spits these files into a head and body section.

The default skeleton archetypes/default.md is

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date = '{{ .Date }}'
draft = true
title = '{{ replace .File.ContentBaseName "-" " " | title }}'
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While the skeleton uses toml, it can be yaml or json, which I find simplest.

{
  "date":  "{{ .Date }}",
  "draft": true,
  "title": "{{ replace .File.ContentBaseName "-" " " | title }}"
}

Setting draft to true by default tripped me up, and I’m sure most other novices since that means your page doesn’t get rendered by default.