Cannot set default frontmatter format

[ktprograms]

What version of Hugo are you using (hugo version)?

$ hugo version
hugo v0.91.0+extended darwin/arm64 BuildDate=unknown

Does this issue reproduce with the latest release?

Yes

When creating a new site with hugo new site blog -f toml, the configuration file is correctly in a toml format, but when creating new posts with hugo new test.md, the frontmatter is in a yaml format.

As far as I can see, there isn't any configuration option to set the default frontmatter format, so this issue can be solved one of two ways:

• Add a option in the configuration file for which frontmatter format to use.
• In the documentation for options for hugo new site, don't mention that the -f option can control the config & frontmatter format

[ktprograms]

@bep Is there any way to create a new post with toml frontmatter?

[bep]

@ktprograms the "hugo new" post now uses whatever format lives in the archetype file -- so what you want to do is to create a custom template(s) in the /archetype folder. We used to respect the mentioned setting, but it became really complicated to maintain after we got archetype folder and templating support ...

[ktprograms]

@bep I see. Thanks.

So I would either modify the syntax in the archetypes/default.md file, or add a archetypes/toml-frontmatter.md file and use it with hugo new -k toml-frontmatter name-of-post.md, right?

[bep]

Yea, that's right -- I would probably just edit the default...

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