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Pick your path — AI, online, local, or visual — and ship a HugoBlox site you fully own.
HugoBlox is the open-source page-building kit for Hugo. You stack ready-made blocks, write Markdown, and deploy a fast site that lives in your git repo forever — no proprietary database, no React lock-in, no rendering surprise.
There are four ways to get going. Pick the one that matches how hands-on you want to be.
Pick your path
Build with AI
Tell Hugo Chat what you want, get a deployable HugoBlox site in Markdown. Fastest if you don't know where to start yet.
Online deployer
Click a template, sign in with GitHub, watch it deploy. Best when you've found a template you like.
Local CLI
Install Hugo plus the `hugoblox` CLI and work on your laptop. Best when you want full local control.
Visual editor
Edit a HugoBlox site visually with the Ownable CMS extension for VS Code. Best when you'd rather drag than YAML.
Which one should I pick?
| If you... | Start with |
|---|---|
| Don't know what you want yet | Hugo Chat — describe a site, see a preview |
| Want a finished site in 60 seconds | Online deployer |
| Want everything on your laptop | Local CLI |
| Want WYSIWYG over Markdown | Ownable CMS |
You can mix them later. The CLI, Hugo Chat, and Ownable CMS all read and write the same Markdown — switch between them whenever it suits you.
Then what?
Why HugoBlox?
The case for Markdown-native, AI-ready websites.
The ecosystem
Hugo Chat, Ownable, the CLI, Intellisense, Ownable CMS — what each one does and when to reach for it.
Tutorials
End-to-end builds: Academic CV, blog, resume, link-in-bio, landing page.
Recipes
Common goals: deploy, theme, migrate, add publications.
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