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2 title: Editor Plug-ins for Hugo
3 linktitle: Editor Plug-ins
4 description: The Hugo community uses a wide range of preferred tools and has developed plug-ins for some of the most popular text editors to help automate parts of your workflow.
5 date: 2017-02-01
6 publishdate: 2017-02-01
7 lastmod: 2017-02-01
8 categories: [developer tools]
9 keywords: [editor, plug-ins]
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12 parent: "tools"
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21 The Hugo community uses a wide range of preferred tools and has developed plug-ins for some of the most popular text editors to help automate parts of your workflow.
22
23 ## Sublime Text
24
25 * [Hugofy](https://github.com/akmittal/Hugofy). Hugofy is a plugin for Sublime Text 3 to make life easier to use Hugo static site generator.
26 * [Hugo Snippets](https://packagecontrol.io/packages/Hugo%20Snippets). Hugo Snippets is a useful plugin for adding automatic snippets to Sublime Text 3.
27
28 ## Visual Studio Code
29
30 * [Hugofy](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=akmittal.hugofy). Hugofy is a plugin for Visual Studio Code to "make life easier" when developing with Hugo. The source code can be found [here](https://github.com/akmittal/hugofy-vscode).
31 * [Hugo Helper](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=rusnasonov.vscode-hugo). Hugo Helper is a plugin for Visual Studio Code that has some useful commands for Hugo. The source code can be found [here](https://github.com/rusnasonov/vscode-hugo).
32 * [Hugo Language and Syntax Support](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=budparr.language-hugo-vscode). Hugo Language and Syntax Support is a Visual Studio Code plugin for Hugo syntax highlighting and snippets. The source code can be found [here](https://github.com/budparr/language-hugo-vscode).
33 * [Hugo Themer](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=eliostruyf.vscode-hugo-themer). Hugo Themer is an extension to help you while developing themes. It allows you to easily navigate through your theme files.
34 * [Front Matter](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=eliostruyf.vscode-front-matter). Once you go for a static site, you need to think about how you are going to manage your articles. Front matter is a tool that helps you maintaining the metadata/front matter of your articles like: creation date, modified date, slug, tile, SEO check, and many more...
35
36 ## Emacs
37
38 * [emacs-easy-hugo](https://github.com/masasam/emacs-easy-hugo). Emacs major mode for managing hugo blogs. Note that Hugo also supports [Org-mode][formats].
39 * [ox-hugo.el](https://ox-hugo.scripter.co). Native Org-mode exporter that exports to Blackfriday Markdown with Hugo front-matter. `ox-hugo` supports two common Org blogging flows --- exporting multiple Org sub-trees in a single file to multiple Hugo posts, and exporting a single Org file to a single Hugo post. It also leverages the Org tag and property inheritance features. See [*Why ox-hugo?*](https://ox-hugo.scripter.co/doc/why-ox-hugo/) for more.
40
41 ## Vim
42
43 * [Vim Hugo Helper](https://github.com/robertbasic/vim-hugo-helper). A small Vim plugin to help me with writing posts with Hugo.
44
45 ## Atom
46
47 * [Hugofy](https://atom.io/packages/hugofy). A Hugo Static Website Generator package for Atom.
48 * [language-hugo](https://atom.io/packages/language-hugo). Adds syntax highlighting to Hugo files.
49
50 [formats]: /content-management/formats/