fix: update sample commands in content/en/docs/contributing/blog.md

[luke6Lh43]

Hi all,

I’d like to propose this small change in Docs/Contributing/Blog after encountering some issues while creating my recent blog post. I blindly copied and pasted the sample commands, which still referenced the year 2024, resulting in my new blog post being created in the wrong directory. I then had to fix this in my local repository and move it to 2025.

To help prevent this for others, I have:

Updated the sample commands to use 2025 in the path
Added comments in brackets reminding users to check the path and year

Ideally, it would be great to have automation that updates sample commands across the docs each year on January 1st :)

Thank you for considering this improvement!

[theletterf]

Thanks! Perhaps we could change the year in that command with {{ time.Now.Year }} — WDYT @chalin ?

https://gohugo.io/functions/time/now/

[chalin]

@luke6Lh43, thanks for point this out!

Thanks! Perhaps we could change the year in that command with {{ time.Now.Year }} — WDYT @chalin ?

Right, I'd prefer that, but it's a bit tricky without a shortcode. Let me think about this.

[chalin]

@luke6Lh43 - please revert the changes to the prose, and replace:

• 2024 by $(date +%Y) in the two shell commands
• See inline comment for the other suggestion

[luke6Lh43]

Hi @chalin . I have updated content/en/docs/contributing/blog.md with your recommendations. However, I don't see $(date +%Y) to be working correctly in both VS Code Markdown preview and when reviewing file on Github. Do I understand it correctly that it is something Hugo specific that will work on a website once published?

[theletterf]

@luke6Lh43 @chalin That's right, it doesn't seem to work in the preview:

https://deploy-preview-8496--opentelemetry.netlify.app/docs/contributing/blog/#fork-and-write-locally

[vitorvasc]

I'd say the $(date +%Y) is only meant to work when running a shell command, not to dinamically render the current year in the page. The year references inside the page content still show up as YYYY.

I tried running the command below, and the page was correctly created under content/en/blog/2025:

npx hugo new content/en/blog/$(date +%Y)/short-name-for-post.md

[theletterf]

@vitorvasc 🤦🏻 You're right. I think we can go ahead then. :)

[chalin]

Thanks. I'll let @vitorvasc and @theletterf handle it from here (I'll be OOO).

[vitorvasc]

LGTM. Thanks @luke6Lh43!

[vitorvasc]

@theletterf leaving it with you for a final review and merge! :)