A simple and clean blog theme for Hugo.

How to use this theme

To use hugo-coder go through the following steps.

Download

Clone this repository into your Hugo project.

git clone https://github.com/luizdepra/hugo-coder.git themes/coder

Configuration

Add the following lines to your config.toml.

baseurl = "http://www.example.com" # Hostname (and path) to the root.
title = "johndoe" # Site title.
theme = "coder" # Set the theme.
languagecode = "en" # The site’s language code.

paginate = 20 # Default number of pages per page in pagination.
canonifyurls = true # Enable to turn relative URLs into absolute.

pygmentsstyle = "b2" # Color-theme or style for syntax highlighting.
pygmentscodefences = true # Enable code fence background highlighting.
pygmentscodefencesguesssyntax = true # Enable syntax guessing for code fences without specified language.

disqusShortname = "yourdiscussshortname" # Enable or disable Disqus

[params] # theme parameters
    author = "John Doe" # Author's name.
    info = "Full Stack DevOps and Magician" # Author's job title or info.
    description = "John Doe's personal website" # Site description.
    keywords = "blog,developer,personal" # Site keywords.

    # Whether you want to hide copyright and credits in the footer.
    hideCredits = false
    hideCopyright = false

    # Custom CSS
    custom_css = []

    # RTL support
    rtl = false

# Social links
[[params.social]]
    name = "Github"
    weight = 1
    url = "https://github.com/johndoe/"
[[params.social]]
    name = "Twitter"
    weight = 2
    url = "https://twitter.com/johndoe/"
[[params.social]]
    name = "LinkedIn"
    weight = 3
    url = "https://www.linkedin.com/in/johndoe/"

# Menu links
[[menu.main]]
    name = "Blog"
    weight = 1
    url  = "/posts/"
[[menu.main]]
    name = "About"
    weight = 2
    url = "/about/"

You can look at full working config.toml inside the exampleSite folder.

Build & Test

To update or generate the minified CSS file:

make build

To build your site and test, run:

hugo server

To preview the exampleSite, run

make demo

The above command copies current state of the theme to exampleSite/themes and starts hugo with hugo serve -D (Go does not support Symlink directories)

Disqus

Add the following line to your config, disqusShortname = "yourdiscussshortname" When this is set, all posts are disqus enabled
You can disable comments for a post by adding the following to your page meta data. disable_comments: true

To Do

• Tags, Categories and Series

License

Coder is licensed under the MIT license.

Author

Luiz de Prá

Contributors

• Gabor Nagy
• Ihor Dvoretskyi
• Jan Baudisch
• Jiri Hubacek
• Khosrow Moossavi
• Maikel
• peterrus
• Ralf Junghanns
• tobaloidee
• Vlad Ionescu
• Niels Reijn
• Harry Khanna
• Chip Senkbeil

Special Thanks

• Gleen McComb, for his great article about custom pagination.
• All contributors, for every PR and Issue reported.