# The Hugging Face Blog Repository 🤗
This is the official repository of the [Hugging Face Blog](https://hf.co/blog).
**If you are an external contributor**: If your blog post is not a collaboration post with Hugging Face, please consider creating a [community blog](https://huggingface.co/blog-explorers) instead. Community blog posts appear on our blogs main page just like the blogs in this repository.
## How to write an article? 📝
1️⃣ Create a branch `YourName/Title`
2️⃣ Create a md (markdown) file, **use a short file name**.
For instance, if your title is "Introduction to Deep Reinforcement Learning", the md file name could be `intro-rl.md`. This is important because the **file name will be the blogpost's URL**.
3️⃣ Create a new folder in `assets`. Use the same name as the name of the md file. Optionally you may add a numerical prefix to that folder, using the number that hasn't been used yet. But this is no longer required. i.e. the asset folder in this example could be `123_intro-rl` or `intro-rl`. This folder will contain **your thumbnail only**. The folder number is mostly for (rough) ordering purposes, so it's no big deal if two concurrent articles use the same number.
For the rest of your files, create a mirrored folder in the HuggingFace Documentation Images [repo](https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/tree/main/blog). This is to reduce bloat in the GitHub base repo when cloning and pulling.
🖼️: In terms of images, **try to have small files** to avoid having a slow loading user experience:
- Use compressed images, you can use this website: https://tinypng.com or https://www.iloveimg.com/compress-image
4️⃣ Copy and paste this to your md file and change the elements
- title
- thumbnail
- authors
```
---
title: "PUT YOUR TITLE HERE"
thumbnail: /blog/assets/101_decision-transformers-train/thumbnail.gif
authors:
- user: your_hf_user
- user: your_coauthor
---
# Train your first Decision Transformer
Your content here [...]
```
When published, the Hub will insert the following UI elements right after the blogpost's main header (i.e. the line that starts with a single `#`, aka. the `<h1>`):
- "Published on [date]"
- "Update on GitHub" button
- avatars of the authors that were listed in authors.
5️⃣ Then, you can add your content. It's markdown system so if you wrote your text on notion just control shift v to copy/paste as markdown.
6️⃣ Modify `_blog.yml` to add your blogpost.
7️⃣ When your article is ready, **open a pull request**.
8️⃣ The article will be **published automatically when you merge your pull request**.
## How to get a nice responsive thumbnail?
1️⃣ Create a `1300x650` image
2️⃣ Use [this template](https://github.com/huggingface/blog/blob/main/assets/thumbnail-template.svg) and fill the content part.
➡️ Or select a background you like and follow the instructions in [this Figma template](https://www.figma.com/file/sXrf9VtkkbWI7kCIesMkDY/HF-Blog-Template?node-id=351%3A39).
## Using LaTeX
Just add:
```
\\(your_latex_here\\)
```
For instance:
``` \\( Q(S_t, A_t) \\) ``` ➡️ $Q(S_t, A_t)$
## How to Caption Figures
A couple of alternatives:
- Use a Markdown table [like here](https://github.com/huggingface/blog/blob/fd611f6200391b865641c4e7a38e1ea47ec4bc6c/pref-tuning.md?plain=1#L31).
- Use HTML, [like here](https://github.com/huggingface/blog/blob/0e6ebe5ca43d6408c20eddab1f5f3205d680f3aa/watermarking.md?plain=1#L70-L73).
## How to Use Highlight Boxes
See an example [in this PR](https://github.com/huggingface/blog/pull/1180). This is to be used sparingly :)
## Embed a Space
Just add:
```
<script
type="module"
src="https://gradio.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/4.36.1/gradio.js"
></script>
<gradio-app theme_mode="light" space="derek-thomas/hugging-face-blog-assistant"></gradio-app>
```
Code: [leaderboard-bigcodebench.md](leaderboard-bigcodebench.md)
[Blog Example](https://huggingface.co/blog/leaderboard-bigcodebench#how-well-do-llms-perform-on-bigcodebench-%F0%9F%93%8A)
## More Assistance
You can use the [community blog editor](https://huggingface.co/new-blog) which has a preview function.
Or check out this [assistant space](https://huggingface.co/spaces/derek-thomas/hugging-face-blog-assistant)
to help with rendering some tricky markdown blocks like:
- Inserting caption figures with image tables
- Tip formatting
- Inserting clickable references
Do give it a like if it was helpful.