---
name: "hugo-mod-init"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "hugo"
version: "0.169.0-1"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/hugo-mod-init"
---

# hugo-mod-init(1)

Initialize this project as a Hugo Module

## NAME

hugo-mod-init - Initialize this project as a Hugo Module

## SYNOPSIS

**hugo mod init \[flags\] \[args\]**

## DESCRIPTION

Initialize this project as a Hugo Module.\
 	It will try to guess the module path, but you may help by passing it as an argument, e.g:

```
	hugo mod init github.com/gohugoio/testshortcodes
Note that Hugo Modules supports multi-module projects, so you can initialize a Hugo Module
inside a subfolder on GitHub, as one example.
```

## OPTIONS

**-b**, **--baseURL**=""\
 	hostname (and path) to the root, e.g. https://spf13.com/

**--cacheDir**=""\
 	filesystem path to cache directory

**-c**, **--contentDir**=""\
 	filesystem path to content directory

**-h**, **--help**\[=false\]\
 	help for init

**--renderSegments**=\[\]\
 	named segments to render (configured in the segments config)

**-t**, **--theme**=\[\]\
 	themes to use (located in /themes/THEMENAME/)

## OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS

**--clock**=""\
 	set the clock used by Hugo, e.g. --clock 2021-11-06T22:30:00.00+09:00

**--config**=""\
 	config file (default is hugo.yaml\|json\|toml)

**--configDir**="config"\
 	config dir

**-d**, **--destination**=""\
 	filesystem path to write files to

**-e**, **--environment**=""\
 	build environment

**--ignoreVendorPaths**=""\
 	ignores any \_vendor for module paths matching the given Glob pattern

**--logLevel**=""\
 	log level (debug\|info\|warn\|error)

**--noBuildLock**\[=false\]\
 	don't create .hugo\_build.lock file

**--quiet**\[=false\]\
 	build in quiet mode

**-M**, **--renderToMemory**\[=false\]\
 	render to memory (mostly useful when running the server)

**-s**, **--source**=""\
 	filesystem path to read files relative from

**--themesDir**=""\
 	filesystem path to themes directory

## SEE ALSO

**[hugo-mod(1)](/hugo-mod/1.md)**