As others have said, the plug-in system for Hugo is weaker than Jekyll. I think preprocessing is a viable alternative. I built something that generates markdown

As others have said, the plug-in system for Hugo is weaker than Jekyll. I think preprocessing is a viable alternative. I built something that generates markdown (especially the preambles) from a sqlite database. As a separate step, Hugo generates the web pages. My code is messy, and probably not suitable for others, but it's here: https://github.com/ralexander-phi/rss-blogroll-network/blob/91e1c370ae0f0c7dcf8cfce7014845b162f03733/analyze.go#L556 https://github.com/ralexander-phi/rss-blogroll-network/blob/... This uses a weekly web crawler run to populate the sqlite database (https://github.com/ralexander-phi/feed2pages-action/tree/main https://github.com/ralexander-phi/feed2pages-action/tree/mai...) and it generates a couple thousand pages which are then hosted on GitHub Pages (https://alexsci.com/rss-blogroll-network/ https://alexsci.com/rss-blogroll-network/).