Traps I Fell Into: The Full Playbook for Deploying a Hugo Static Blog on Cloudflare Pages in 2026
🚀 Introduction In 2026, hosting a Hugo-compiled Markdown static blog on Cloudflare Pages (a.k.a. CF Pages) is still the ultimate “free lunch” combo on the planet. You get global edge delivery with sub-second loads, fully free usage, and unlimited requests/traffic. However, as Cloudflare pushes forward with a major dashboard redesign and Hugo keeps iterating, plenty of older tutorials have turned into a field of buried landmines. This post is a real, unfiltered account of the full trap-clearing, course-correcting journey. ...