Setting Up Hugo with LoveIt Theme

2026-01-15 95 words

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Setting Up Hugo with LoveIt Theme

Hugo is fast. LoveIt is clean. Together they’re a great combo for a personal site.

Prerequisites

Hugo Extended v0.110+
Git

Installation

# Install Hugo (Windows via WinGet)
winget install Hugo.Hugo.Extended

# Create a new site
hugo new site my-blog
cd my-blog

# Add LoveIt as a submodule
git init
git submodule add https://github.com/dillonzq/LoveIt themes/LoveIt

Basic config

baseURL = "https://yourdomain.com/"
theme = "LoveIt"
paginate = 5

Start the server

hugo server -D

Visit http://localhost:1313 and you’re live.

Tip

Always use the Extended version — you need it for SCSS compilation.