Use an alias in your PowerShell profile to create a new Hugo post

Use an alias in your PowerShell profile to create a new Hugo post

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Use an alias in your PowerShell profile to create a new Hugo post

The command to create a new Hugo post is:

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hugo new <path to new content>

Use an alias

Using Powershell, you can use an alias to make this easier, here is the block of code we are going to use:

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function New-HugoPost {
  param (
    [string]$PostName
  )
 
  # UPDATE ME TO POINT TO YOUR BLOG PATH
  $blogPath = "c:\path\to\your\blog"

  set-location $blogPath
  & hugo.exe new "content\post\$PostName\index.md" -c $blogPath
}

Set-Alias nhp New-HugoPost

This can be reloaded each time Powershell starts by editing your profile:

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# open up the profile
notepad $profile
#
# ** paste in the code block above & save **
# 
# reload the profile
. $profile

Test it works

Then, to create a new post using the new, friendly nhp alias:

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nhp my-new-post
pwsh
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