Automator

Call it The GCDLADB if you like.

Scheduled Updates for a Hugo Static Site  5 min read   Jul 18, 2020    Mackenzie McFate
A few months ago I migrated a site, The Compass Rose Band, from Drupal to Hugo for my Uncle. Since then I have been maintaining the site, adding and removing dates, and updating the site about every other week. With the passage of time events on the site “automatically” move from “upcoming” to “past”, but since it is a “static” site, that only happens when I recompile and rebuild the site. So I needed to automate builds. I tried a few different ideas I’d heard about, including crontab, but on my Mac desktop I ended up settling on an Automator workflow tied to a Calendar event. ...