Hugo and image inclusion does not work out of the box

Nov 19, 2015  

Adding an image into a blog post should be as simple as:

1![Warning: do not slice on arguments...](do-not-slice.png)

At least, this works great while editing the post in an editor with active Markdown preview (such as Atom, the preview is activated by pressing Ctrl+Shift+M).

However, Hugo was not happy with that image reference. The generated HTML ended up in 2015/11/blah/index.html whereas the image was copied to post/do-not-slice.png.

This was caused by the settings I was using. To have images copied alongside the generated content, I had to:

  • Remove my [permalinks] section which contained post = "/:year/:month/:filename/"
  • Add uglyurls = true.
  • Organize manually my posts by year and month in the source tree.

I commented on issue 1199 hoping that this behavior would get fixed. Or at least to have the issue being reopened.