This post concludes the initial stages of the revamp of my website from inside RStudio. Truthfully, my old website using a WordPress Theme just wasn’t cutting it. I had previously tried to implement a Hugo generated website with Netlify hosting last year with no succcess, but having read a bit more about the awesome blogdown package by Yihui Xie, I managed to throw something everything together.

This article offers a sample of basic Markdown syntax that can be used in Hugo content files, also it shows whether basic HTML elements are decorated with CSS in a Hugo theme.

Hugo ships with several Built-in Shortcodes for rich content, along with a Privacy Config and a set of Simple Shortcodes that enable static and no-JS versions of various social media embeds.