Version 1.6 of blogdown was released to CRAN earlier this week. Although you can learn about all changes in the release notes, I’d like to quickly highlight a few things here:

The config/ directory

As some of you may know, Hugo supports the config file (config.yaml or config.toml) under either the root directory of the website project or the config/_default/ directory, which has the advantage of storing multiple config files in one …