Creating single.html for Single Page Layout

When using hugo new to create a markdown file, Hugo uses layouts/_default/single.html as the default single page layout to generate.

Version

Hugo 0.92

Create Markdown

$ hugo new about.md

hogo new : create markdown file by the default archetypes/default.md

single000

about.md is created by Hugo CLI.

single001

about.md is created under the content folder.

Markdown Content

content/about.md

---
title: "About"
date: 2020-01-01T12:40:44-05:00 
draft: false
---
This is my About page.

Modify about.md as above.

Single Page Layout

layouts/_default/single.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <script src="alpine.js" defer></script>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="output.css" />
    <title>{{ .Site.Title }}</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>{{ .Title }}</h1>
    {{ .Content }}
  </body>
</html>

Create single.html for the default single page layout.

single002

single.html is located under the layouts/_default folder.

Single Page

single003

Hugo creates the about single page on http://localhost:1313/about.

Conclusion

layouts/index.html is the layout for the home page, whereas layouts/_default/single.html is the default layout for single page