Getting started

Sitepaste turns Markdown into a static website. You write pages, deploy, and Sitepaste builds your site with Hugo and serves it as plain HTML. This guide takes you from a new account to a live page.

1. Create an account

Sign up at sitepaste.com. Your account comes with a workspace and a site, and a short setup wizard walks you through naming the site. Your site’s address is yourusername.sitepaste.com.

The site goes live the first time you deploy. Until then, the address serves nothing.

If you are curious how workspaces and sites relate, see Sites and workspaces.

2. Write your first page

Open Pages in the dashboard and create a page. The editor has two modes: plain Markdown, and a visual mode with formatting controls. Write in whichever you prefer.

A page needs a title and a body. Everything else, such as the URL slug, the publish date, tags, and the description, has a default you can change in the editor when you need to.

If you paste Markdown that starts with front matter, the editor reads the title, description, tags, date, draft, slug, and section fields and fills in the matching form fields.

3. Choose a content type

Each page has a content type that decides where it appears on your site:

  • Blog posts appear in a dated feed at /blog/.
  • Docs pages appear with sidebar navigation at /docs/.
  • Standalone pages live at their own URL, like /about.
  • The homepage is the page visitors see at the root of your site.

You pick the content type in the editor. See Content types for how each behaves, and Sections for grouping pages under paths you choose, like /recipes/ or /projects/.

4. Deploy

Saving a page does not make it live. When you are ready, open Deploy and deploy the site. Sitepaste builds it with Hugo, usually in a few seconds, and your pages are live at your site address.

The Free plan includes 3 deploys per month; Pro includes 1,000. There is a 30-second wait between deploys. Because a deploy publishes every non-draft page at once, you can save up several edits and deploy them together.

What’s on each plan

The Free plan covers writing and publishing: the editor, one site, 3 deploys a month, and 1 GB of media storage.

The Pro plan adds theme selection and customization, custom domains, password protection, API tokens (which the Obsidian plugin, the GitHub Action, and Apple Shortcuts all require), a second site, more deploys, and 15 GB of storage.

Next steps