This is The Revival of the Archetypes!

"A feature that could be the name of the next Indiana Jones movie deserves its own release," says @bep.

Hugo now handles the archetype files as Go templates. This means that the issues with sorting and lost comments are long gone. This also means that you will have to supply all values, including title and date. But this also opens up a lot of new windows.

A fictional example for the section newsletter and the archetype file archetypes/newsletter.md:

---
title: "{{ replace .TranslationBaseName "-" " " | title }}"
date: {{ .Date }}
draft: true
---

**Insert Lead paragraph here.**

<!--more-->

## New Cool Posts

{{ range first 10 ( where .Site.RegularPages "Type" "cool" ) }}
* {{ .Title }}
{{ end }}

And then create a new post with:

hugo new newsletter/the-latest-cool.stuff.md

Note: the site will only be built if the .Site is in use in the archetype file, and this can be time consuming for big sites.

Hot Tip: If you set the newContentEditor configuration variable to an editor on your PATH, the newly created article will be opened.

The above newsletter type archetype illustrates the possibilities: The full Hugo .Site and all of Hugo's template funcs can be used in the archetype file.

Also, Hugo now supports archetype files for all content formats, not just markdown.

Hugo now has:

• 17839+ stars
• 493+ contributors
• 166+ themes

Notes

• Archetype files now need to be complete, including title and date.
• The -f (format) flag in hugo new is removed: Now use the archetype files as is.

Enhancements

• Support extension-less media types. The motivation behind this change is to support Netlify's _redirects files, so we can generate server-side redirects for the Hugo docs site. See this commit to see how we configured that. 0f40e1fa @bep #3614
• Add disableAliases 516e6c6d @bep #3613
• Support non-md files as archetype files 19f2e729 @bep #3597 #3618
• Identify extension-less text types as text c43b512b @bep #3614
• Add .Site to the archetype templates 662e12f3 @bep #1629
• Use archetype template as-is as a Go template 422057f6 @bep #452 #1629
• Update links to new discuss URL 4aa12390 @bep

Fixes

• Fix error handling for JSON front matter fb53987a @bep #3610
• Fix handling of quoted brackets in JSON front matter 3183b9a2 @bep #3511

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