General: Removing Hugo footer credits in Azure Static Websites

I posted a while back about moving to using Hugo-based Azure Static Websites for my blog and other simple sites.

One of the first things I noticed when my site was deployed, was that there were Hugo credits in the footer of the site. While that’s not necessarily a bad thing, I wanted to remove them. I went looking in all the places that I thought I could change to override this, to no avail.

I thought setting the author details in config.toml (or the other hugo equivalent toml file) would remove it, but it persisted.

I finally did a search through the site and found it was located in the language file for the theme. I suppose that makes sense as you might want different versions of it for different languages. You can see it in the image above. It was in the en.yaml file in the i18n folder for my site.

Now I could just modify that file, but that’s a lousy idea. If the theme gets updated, it would overwrite this value. Instead, you need to create a matching folder structure in the root of your site’s files:

I created a root folder called i18n and put the modified en.yaml in that folder.

That’s all I needed to do, at least for English.

NOTE: When I was testing this, it did require me to restart the local Hugo server before I could see it. I’m not sure why, but I have seen that before with changes to the config.toml file and some others.

2025-07-29