: Set up a wiki in watch mode with Hugo static site generator? In the midst of porting an all HTML site to the Hugo static site generator, my boss asked me to add a wiki to the site. The

@Margaret670

You can't make accounts with Hugo. Hugo just generates static webpages from your frontmatter and markdown details. It parses template style to specific layout that you have provided in your frontmatter.

You can create a wiki (By creating own wiki style) with Hugo but you can't make accounts for login and signup. It is not a CMS that saves login databases, as it doesn't use databases. But if you host your Hugo website in github pages, then you can allow other people to fork your github project, and later you decide weather you allow them to commit that changes or not. I don't see any other option for you.

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@LarsenBagley505

It sounds like from your edit that you have come across the way to achieve this. I haven't used Hugo specifically, but having used other static site generators one way I have achieved this is to have a dynamic web portal which handled user access permissions and provided access to a series of base documents (markdown files in my case) for editing wiki articles and creating new articles. As each markdown file was changed or created the static site generator was set to regenerate the parts of the site that needed to be generated and performed well. To ensure that everyone didn't need access to the web portal I powered things like comments etc through social media plugins and so the only people who needed access to the portal where people who where approved to create and edit wiki articles for the site (which in the projects case was a small number of users affiliated with the organisation).

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