https://muthupalaniyappan.com/ Recent content on Muthu Palaniyappan Olagappan Hugo en-us Sat, 26 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0530 https://muthupalaniyappan.com/blog/rich-social-previews-with-json-ld/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:00:00 +0530 https://muthupalaniyappan.com/blog/rich-social-previews-with-json-ld/ <h1 id="rich-social-previews-with-json-ld">Rich Social Previews with JSON-LD</h1> <p>Sharing a link should look good. This post covers the metadata that makes it happen.</p> <h2 id="open-graph-and-twitter-cards">Open Graph and Twitter cards</h2> <p>Every page emits <code>og:*</code> and <code>twitter:*</code> tags. The social image falls back to a site-wide default when a post doesn&rsquo;t specify its own, and all image URLs are absolute so platforms can fetch them.</p> <h2 id="json-ld">JSON-LD</h2> <p>Structured data is built as a map and serialized once, guaranteeing valid JSON. Articles emit <code>BlogPosting</code>, the profile emits <code>ProfilePage</code>, and list pages like the blog index emit a <code>CollectionPage</code> with an <code>ItemList</code> of posts.</p> https://muthupalaniyappan.com/blog/getting-started-with-hugo/ Tue, 15 Sep 2026 09:30:00 +0530 https://muthupalaniyappan.com/blog/getting-started-with-hugo/ <h1 id="getting-started-with-hugo">Getting Started with Hugo</h1> <p>Hugo is a fast static site generator written in Go. In this post I walk through the pieces that make up this very site.</p> <h2 id="content">Content</h2> <p>All content lives under <code>content/</code>. Each Markdown file has a TOML front matter block that drives the page metadata — title, description, dates, and whether the page is a blog article or a profile.</p> <h2 id="templates">Templates</h2> <p>The shared <code>&lt;head&gt;</code> (SEO, Open Graph, Twitter cards, and JSON-LD) lives in <code>layouts/_default/baseof.html</code>. Single posts use <code>single.html</code>, and section indexes like this blog use <code>list.html</code>.</p>