Hugo offers the ability to create template files for your project. These Archetypes will make your life easier by pre-filling a blog post for you.
How To Create A New Template
In your Hugo project, create a new Markdown file in the archetypes folder in the project directory, for example, archetypes/posts.md.
Here’s a template that creates a new draft post with the current date in a specified format. For the title section we parse the filename and use a regular expression to convert dashes to whitespace. Finally, we title-case the string.
---
date: '{{ now.Format "Monday, January 2, 2006"}}'
title: '{{ .File.TranslationBaseName | replaceRE "-" " " | title }}'
draft: true
---
After you’ve created a template, you can use it with hugo new <template-name>/<file-name>.
Example:
hugo new posts/my-new-blog-post.md
Result:
---
date: 'Thursday, November 21, 2019'
title: 'My New Blog Post'
draft: true
---