setting up the blog area of a hugo Site create a directory in the content directory called blog. add a section (in this case blog) index page using hugo command of hugo new blog/_index.md in this page you only need to have the front matter add new blog content pages. can use hugo command of hugo new blog/blogtitile.md add content in markdown to the new md file create a similar folder structure in the layouts directory to that in the content directory ( “/layouts/blog/” similar to “/content/blog/”) create a list.