Easy Setup (Hugo + Netlify + Forestry)

Build your website with bigspring theme by following this easy steps (No Coding Required)

In this tutorial we will show you to make your website live without buying any hosting and touching a single line of code. We made this tutorial based on meghna hugo but you can setup everithing like this.

What you need !!

Git acccount (Ex: Github, Gitlab etc ) . In our case we use github.
Netlify account to host files and add custom domain .
Forestry account to maintain whole project without code.

Step 1 : Fork or Clone repository

First we will fork this bigspring template.

Step 2 : Add your repository in Forestry

Go to your forestry account and click on import your site now. declare your config.toml file [exampleSite] and fill up basic settings .

Or just click this button for one click installation

Now mark everything as done, then go to configuration to change the base url . You can put any url but this have to similar as netlify . So for now put a name which you are going to put in netlify as netlify subdomain.

Step 3 : Setup and host website with Netlify

Here comes the last step . Go to your netlify account and click add new site . Choose your git repository to import your website in netlify . And now you can see the forked bigspring theme. select it and follow the steps. Then go to site settings for change the site name and put your subdoamin name here what you puted on forestry as base url. save it and go to deploy from top menu, Wait a while and click on site preview or just simply go to the subdomain you puted as base url. BOOM! Your site is live. Now you can go to forestry and add, remove or customize every setting and content.

If you face any issue regarding the installation feel free to onen open a new issue

Demo
Quick Start
Installation
Reporting Issues
Technical Support or Questions
Licensing
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Demo

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Quick Start

Quick start options:

Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/themefisher/bigspring-hugo-startup-theme.git.
Download from Github.
Download from themefisher website.

Installation

At the top we have shown an easy hugo installation. but still if you think you want to go with the traditional way then use the following commands:

$ git clone git@github.com:themefisher/bigspring-hugo-startup-theme.git
$ cd bigspring/exampleSite/
$ hugo server --themesDir ../..

Reporting Issues

We use GitHub Issues as the official bug tracker for the bigspringe. Please Search existing issues. It’s possible someone has already reported the same problem. If your problem or idea is not addressed yet, open a new issue

Technical Support or Questions (Paid)

If you have questions or need help integrating the product please contact us instead of opening an issue.

Licensing

Licensed under MIT (https://github.com/themefisher/bigspring-hugo-startup-theme/blob/master/LICENSE)

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