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Essentia is a modern business template for Hugo.
Business template for Hugo. This template has been built for editing and building with Bookshop and CloudCannon. Built by Insight Creative.
Disclaimer - This template has been heavily integrated with CloudCannon, and therefore many features are specific to the CloudCannon platform and may not work with other hosting providers.
Disclaimer - Essentia is a template for kick starting our Hugo projects. It's not a Hugo theme. Check the theme docs for more information.
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Hugo + CloudCannon + Cloudinary
Hugo is one of the most popular open-source static site generators. With its amazing speed and flexibility, Hugo makes building websites fun again. We choose to build with Hugo because of it’s amazing speed and great community. Try it out, you will be impressed.
The CMS marketers and developers love to use.
For better image/video transformations and optimizations integrate a third-party DAM like Cloudinary or use imgix.
Install Hugo.
Read the HUGO quickstart guide
To get started clone the repository then sync your files to CloudCannon.
To run locally:
npm install
hugo server
That’s it!
When Hugo is done building, you should see a success message like:
Web Server is available at //localhost:1313/ (bind address 127.0.0.1)
Press Ctrl+C to stop
You may then view your local site in the browser at http://localhost:1313/.
Local development is powered by:
You now have a local environment up and running, start developing!
Need more information about Hugo? Visit the Hugo docs or get a jump start with the great Jamstack tutorials from CloudCannon.
We do our best to follow the WCAG2AA standard, and one of the ways we check that we're following the right rules is through automated tools, like pa11y. For more info on the rules being tested checkout the pa11y wiki.
To run a web accessibility test do the following:
Images can be found in static/uploads.
Essentia is set up for editing general site settings like logo, business name, phone, address and social media. Find site settings within Data > site_settings.yml