How to customize and deploy locally

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Since your instructions differ significantly from the Hugo quick start guide, I am having problems customizing and deploying the site on my local server.

What works on the exampleSite is not reproducible on my own site.

Netlify blocks all new non-Pro accounts from signing up or logging in because of validation issues. So I am unable to try out the "quick way" either.

Here's what I did:

hugo new site wencai.io
Congratulations! Your new Hugo site was created in /home/sati/wencai/wencai.io.

cd wencai.io
git init
git submodule add https://github.com/heksagonnet/piko.git themes/piko

What next?

I see these files and folders in your exampleSite.

config.yml  content  netlify.toml  resources  static

which has some files and folders that are congruous to what I have on my project root:

archetypes  assets  content  data  hugo.toml  i18n  layouts  static  themes

When I replaced hugo.toml with config.yml, I get this:

This is as far as I can get, after hours of trial and error. Not sure what I need to do next. Copying content, resources etc. over from exampleSite to the root, replacing the original directories is a messy disaster.

Ideally, the documentation on README.md should guide us step by step to a stage equivalent to the Netlify deployment, where we are able to customize the site for our own needs.