Building a Content Model in Hugo: A Practical Guide
Introduction
If you have ever tried to organize a pile of articles, notes, or documents without a clear system, you know how quickly things can turn into chaos. A content model is the antidote to that chaos. In the context of a Hugo website, a content model is simply the plan you use to decide what kinds of content your site will have, how each type is structured, and how those pieces relate to one another.
Guide
Introduction
If you have ever tried to pick a platform for a new website, you have probably run into two names over and over: Hugo and WordPress. Both are tools for building and publishing websites, but they work in completely different ways, and that difference matters a lot depending on what you are trying to build.
WordPress is the software behind roughly 40 percent of all websites on the internet. It is a content management system, or CMS⁶, which means it stores your content in a database and builds each page on the fly whenever someone visits your site. Hugo is a static site generator. Instead of building pages on demand, it takes your content, written in plain text files, and generates a complete set of finished HTML pages ahead of time. Those finished pages are then simply handed to visitors, with no database lookups or server-side processing involved.
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