Hello Friend
This theme was made to help you present your ideas easier. We all know how hard is to start something on the web, especially these days. You need to prepare a bunch of stuff, configure them and when that’s done — create the content.
This theme is pretty basic and covers all of the essentials. All you have to do is start typing!
https://hugo-hello-friend.now.sh/
DEMO -- Features
- Built-in shortcodes
- Code highlighting
- How to start
- How to configure
- How to add a cover image to your posts
- How to display the Last Modified Date in your posts
- How to hide "Read more" button
- Add-ons
- How to run your site
- How to edit the theme
- How to contribute
- Hello Friend theme user?
- Sponsoring
- Licence
Features
- dark/light mode, depending on your preferences (dark is default, but you can change it)
- great reading experience thanks to Inter font, made by Rasmus Andersson
- nice code highlighting thanks to PrismJS
- fully responsive
Built-in shortcodes
image
(prop required:src
; props optional:alt
,position
(left is default | center | right),style
)- eg:
{{< image src="/img/hello.png" alt="Hello Friend" position="center" style="border-radius: 8px;" >}}
- eg:
figure
(same asimage
, plus few optional props:caption
,captionPosition
(left | center is default | right),captionStyle
- eg:
{{< figure src="/img/hello.png" alt="Hello Friend" position="center" style="border-radius: 8px;" caption="Hello Friend!" captionPosition="right" captionStyle="color: red;" >}}
- eg:
imgproc
Hugo shortcode for image processing. More info at https://gohugo.io/content-management/image-processing/
Code highlighting
By default the theme is using PrismJS to color your code syntax. All you need to do is to wrap you code like this:
```html // your code here ```
Supported languages: bash/shell, css, clike, javascript, apacheconf, actionscript, applescript, c, csharp, cpp, coffeescript, ruby, csp, css-extras, diff, django, docker, elixir, elm, markup-templating, erlang, fsharp, flow, git, go, graphql, less, handlebars, haskell, http, java, json, kotlin, latex, markdown, makefile, objectivec, ocaml, perl, php, php-extras, r, sql, processing, scss, python, jsx, typescript, toml, reason, textile, rust, sass, stylus, scheme, pug, swift, yaml, haml, twig, tsx, vim, visual-basic, wasm.
How to start
You can download the theme manually by going to https://github.com/panr/hugo-theme-hello-friend.git and pasting it to themes/hello-friend
in your root directory.
You can also clone it directly to your Hugo folder:
$ git clone https://github.com/panr/hugo-theme-hello-friend.git themes/hello-friend
If you don't want to make any radical changes, it's the best option, because you can get new updates when they are available. To do so, include it as a git submodule:
$ git submodule add https://github.com/panr/hugo-theme-hello-friend.git themes/hello-friend
How to configure
The theme doesn't require any advanced configuration. Just copy:
baseurl = "/"
languageCode = "en-us"
theme = "hello-friend"
paginate = 5
[params]
# dir name of your blog content (default is `content/posts`)
contentTypeName = "posts"
# "light" or "dark"
defaultTheme = "dark"
# if you set this to 0, only submenu trigger will be visible
showMenuItems = 2
# Show reading time in minutes for posts
showReadingTime = false
[languages]
[languages.en]
title = "Hello Friend"
subtitle = "A simple theme for Hugo"
keywords = ""
copyright = ""
menuMore = "Show more"
writtenBy = "Written by"
readMore = "Read more"
readOtherPosts = "Read other posts"
newerPosts = "Newer posts"
olderPosts = "Older posts"
minuteReadingTime = "min read"
dateFormatSingle = "2006-01-02"
dateFormatList = "2006-01-02"
# leave empty to disable, enter display text to enable
# lastModDisplay = ""
[languages.en.params.logo]
logoText = "hello friend"
logoHomeLink = "/"
# or
#
# path = "/img/your-example-logo.svg"
# alt = "Your example logo alt text"
[languages.en.menu]
[[languages.en.menu.main]]
identifier = "about"
name = "About"
url = "/about"
[[languages.en.menu.main]]
identifier = "showcase"
name = "Showcase"
url = "/showcase"
to config.toml
file in your Hugo root directory and change params fields. In case you need, here's a YAML version.
NOTE: Please keep in mind that currently main menu doesn't support nesting.
How to add a cover image to your posts
Adding a cover image to your post is simple and there are two options when you edit your index.md
file in content/posts/blog-entry-xy/index.md
:
- Use
cover = "/path/to/absolute/img.jpg"
to link an absolute image- Resulting in
https://www.yourpage.com/path/to/absolute/img.jpg
- Resulting in
- Use
cover = "img.jpg"
anduseRelativeCover = true
to link the image relative to the blog post folder- Resulting in
https://www.yourpage.com/posts/blog-entry-xy/img.jpg
- Resulting in
How to display the Last Modified Date in your posts
Add lastModDisplay = "[your display text]"
to config.toml
to enable last modified date on your posts. Note - an empty string value ""
does not display anything.
Example: lastModDisplay = "Modified:"
--> "Modified: Jan 01, 0001"
Hugo's
enableGitInfo
option is a nice complement to this feature.
How to hide "Read more" button
In a post's front matter you have to add hideReadMore
param set to true
. This will result in that the post won't have "Read more" button in the list view.
Add-ons
- Archive — Theme has built-in
archive
page for main content (seecontentTypeName
variable in config). If you need archive on your blog just copy https://github.com/panr/hugo-theme-hello-friend/blob/master/exampleSite/content/archive.md to yourcontent
dir. If you need multilangual archives, duplicatecontent/archive.md
and add.Lang
variable, eg:content/archive.pl.md
(remember to changeurl
in duplicated file). - Comments — for adding comments to your blog posts please take a look at
layouts/partials/comments.html
https://github.com/panr/hugo-theme-terminal/blob/master/layouts/partials/comments.html. - Prepended
<head>
— if you need to add something inside<head>
element, and before any of the theme's<script>
and<link>
tags are declared, please take a look atlayouts/partial/prepended_head.html
https://github.com/panr/hugo-theme-hello-friend/blob/master/layouts/partials/prepended_head.html - Extended
<head>
— if you need to add something inside<head>
element, after all of all of the theme's<script>
and<link>
tags are declared, please take a look atlayouts/partial/extended_head.html
https://github.com/panr/hugo-theme-hello-friend/blob/master/layouts/partials/extended_head.html - Extended
<footer>
— if you need to add something before end of<body>
element, please take a look atlayouts/partial/extended_footer.html
https://github.com/panr/hugo-theme-hello-friend/blob/master/layouts/partials/extended_footer.html
How to run your site
From your Hugo root directory run:
$ hugo server -t hello-friend
and go to localhost:1313
in your browser. From now on all the changes you make will go live, so you don't need to refresh your browser every single time.
How to edit the theme
If you have to override some of the styles, you can do this easily by adding static/style.css
in your root directory and point things you want to change.
Otherwise, if you really want to edit the theme, you need to install Node dependencies. To do so, go to the theme directory (from your Hugo root directory):
$ cd themes/hello-friend
and then run:
$ npm install
$ npm i yarn
$ yarn
How to contribute
If you spot any bugs, please use Issue Tracker or if you want to add a new feature directly please create a new Pull Request.
Hello Friend
theme user?
I'd be happy to know more about you and what you are doing. If you want to share it, please make a contribution and add your site to the list!
Sponsoring
If you like my work and want to support the development of the project, now you can! Just:
License
Copyright © 2019 Radosław Kozieł (@panr)
The theme is released under the MIT License. Check the original theme license for additional licensing information.