What is Hugo?
Hugo is a static site generator (SSG) written in Go (i.e. it’s good).
Which theme do I recommend for documentations?
The best Hugo theme for documentation I know is Docsy. It is maintained by Google.
How do I redirect a page to an external URL?
To redirect to external links in Hugo,
you can use the <meta http-equiv="refresh" ... /> tag.
Add the following snippet in the <head> section of _default/baseof.html of your template:
{{ if isset .Params "redirect" }}
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url='{{ .Params.redirect }}'"/>
{{ end -}}
In the frontmatter of a page, you can now set redirect to the external URL.
---
title: "Example"
redirect: https://example.com
---