A free and open-source Jekyll Hugo theme. Great for blogs and easy to customize. This theme is a port of the original Type theme made by Rohan Chandra. Noteworthy features of this Hugo theme are the integration of a comment-system powered by Disqus, Google Analytics and localization (l10n) support.
I assume you've Git installed. Inside the folder of your Hugo site run
$ mkdir themes
$ cd themes
$ git clone https://github.com/digitalcraftsman/hugo-type-theme.git
You should see a folder called hugo-type-theme inside the themes directory that we created a few moments ago. For more information read the official setup guide of Hugo.
In the next step navigate to the exampleSite folder at themes/hugo-type-theme/exampleSite/. Its structure should look similar to this:
exampleSite
├── config.toml
├── content
│ ├── about
│ │ └── index.md
│ └── post
│ ├── creating-a-new-theme.md
│ ├── go-is-for-lovers.md
│ ├── hugo-is-for-lovers.md
│ └── migrate-from-jekyll.md
├── data
│ └── l10n.toml
└── static
In order to get your site running, you need to copy config.toml and data/l10n.toml into the root folders.
Now, let us take a look into the config.toml. Feel free to play around with the settings.
The optional comment system is powered by Disqus. Enter your shortname to enable the comment section under your posts.
disqusShortname = ""
The same applies to the activation of Google Analytics. Enable it by entering the tracking code for your website.
googleAnalytics = ""
You can define menu entries as you like by linking a post or any other site. First, let us link a post that you've written. We can do this in the frontmatter of the post's content file by setting menu to nav. That's it.
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menu = "nav"
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You don't blog in English and you want to translate the theme into your native locale? No problem. Take a look in the data folder and you'll find a file l10n.toml that we've copied at the beginning. It contains all strings related to the theme. Just replace the original strings with your own.
After creating a new post you can define a thumbnail by entering the relative path to the image in the frontmatter of the post:
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featureimage = "img/sample_feature_img.png"
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This way you can store them either next to the content file or in the static folder.
If you want to tell your audience who you are create a new file called index.md under content/about. For an example look at exampleSite/content/about/index.md inside the theme folder.
In order to see your site in action, run Hugo's built-in local server.
$ hugo server
Now enter localhost:1313 in the address bar of your browser.
Have you found a bug or got an idea for a new feature? Feel free to use the issue tracker to let me know. Or make directly a pull request.
Please create a separate branch for each pull request
This theme is released under the MIT license. For more information read the license.
Thanks to
- Rohan Chandra for creating the original theme
- Steve Francia for creating Hugo and the awesome community around the project.