hugo new content ignores the --format option

[jc-camosun]

What version of Hugo are you using (hugo version)?

0.118.2

Does this issue reproduce with the latest release?

yes

hugo new content --format yaml still produces +++ for the front matter instead of YAML's ---

[jmooring]

Although this flag has been erroneously available when generating new content, it has never had any effect. The flag should be removed from the hugo new content command.

[jc-camosun]

Although this flag has been erroneously available when generating new content, it has never had any effect. The flag should be removed from the hugo new content command.

If this is the case, how do you generate new content so that it uses YAML for its front matter if you have used --format yaml when generating the site?

[jmooring]

You can have as many archetypes as you want, using different front matter formats, etc.

[jc-camosun]

You can have as many archetypes as you want, using different front matter formats, etc.

That I understand, but if I used the --format yaml flag when generating the site with the hugo new site command, shouldn't the default.md also be in YAML, not TOML?

[jmooring]

That flag only applies to the configuration format. That is the way it has always behaved.

[aquada]

I am also interested in this. I have created the site with format YAML and it correctly creates a YAML config, but when I create a post it always defaults to TOML front matter. I have tried specifying metaDataFormat: yaml in the hugo.yaml, but it does not resolve the issue. How can we create content with YAML front matter?

[aquada]

I am still confused as to how can we create content with YAML front matter? I can open another issue, but maybe there is a simple answer? As it stands it will always create TOML. thank you

[bep]

I am still confused as to how can we create content with YAML front matter? I can open another issue, but maybe there is a simple answer? As it stands it will always create TOML. thank you

Content gets created based on archetype templates and Hugo will use whatever front matter format these uses.

[jtcmedia]

archetype templates

Might be a good idea for hugo to output to the console a message that you need to change your archetype templates to YAML manually when the user generates their site with --format yaml

[bep]

@jtcmedia there is no such flag anymore for new content, so the user will get an error.

[aquada]

I am still confused as to how can we create content with YAML front matter? I can open another issue, but maybe there is a simple answer? As it stands it will always create TOML. thank you

Content gets created based on archetype templates and Hugo will use whatever front matter format these uses.

that's clarified it, thank you

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