https://www.jwogrady.com/tags/images/ Recent content in images on jwogrady Hugo en-us Sun, 20 Sep 2026 15:45:00 -0500 https://www.jwogrady.com/posts/assets-is-not-static/ Sun, 20 Sep 2026 15:45:00 -0500 https://www.jwogrady.com/posts/assets-is-not-static/ <p>Dropped a screenshot into <code>assets/</code>, pointed some markdown at it, got nothing. My first thought was that I&rsquo;d typo&rsquo;d the path. I hadn&rsquo;t.</p> <p>It turns out Hugo has two directories for files that aren&rsquo;t content, and they&rsquo;re near-opposites:</p> <p><strong><code>static/</code></strong> is a photocopier. A file at <code>static/x.png</code> is served at <code>/x.png</code>, byte for byte, no questions asked.</p> <p><strong><code>assets/</code></strong> isn&rsquo;t published <em>at all</em>. It&rsquo;s raw material. A file in there reaches the output only when a template pulls it through <code>resources.Get</code>, and then at a path Hugo picks.</p>