Theme Documentation - Basics
Discover what the Hugo - KeepIt theme is all about and the core-concepts behind it.
1 Requirements
Thanks to the simplicity of Hugo, Hugo is the only dependency of this theme.
Just install latest version of Hugo (> 0.62.0) for your OS (Windows, Linux, macOS).
2 Installation
The following steps are here to help you initialize your new website. If you don’t know Hugo at all, we strongly suggest you learn more about it by following this great documentation for beginners .
2.1 Create Your Project
Hugo provides a new
command to create a new website:
hugo new site my_website
cd my_website
2.2 Install the Theme
The KeepIt theme’s repository is: https://github.com/Fastbyte01/KeepIt .
You can download the latest release .zip file
of the theme and extract it in the themes
directory.
Alternatively, clone this repository to the themes
directory:
git clone https://github.com/Fastbyte01/KeepIt.git themes/KeepIt
Or, create an empty git repository and make this repository a submodule of your site directory:
git init
git submodule add https://github.com/Fastbyte01/KeepIt.git themes/KeepIt
2.3 Basic Configuration
The following is a basic configuration for the KeepIt theme:
baseURL = "http://example.org/"
# Change the default theme to be use when building the site with Hugo
theme = "KeepIt"
# website title
title = "My New Hugo Site"
# language code ["en", "zh-CN", "fr", "pl", ...]
languageCode = "en"
# language name ["English", "简体中文", "Français", "Polski", ...]
languageName = "English"
# Author config
[author]
name = "xxxx"
email = ""
link = ""
# Menu config
[menu]
[[menu.main]]
weight = 1
identifier = "posts"
# you can add extra information before the name (HTML format is supported), such as icons
pre = ""
# you can add extra information after the name (HTML format is supported), such as icons
post = ""
name = "Posts"
url = "/posts/"
# title will be shown when you hover on this menu link
title = ""
[[menu.main]]
weight = 2
identifier = "tags"
pre = ""
post = ""
name = "Tags"
url = "/tags/"
title = ""
[[menu.main]]
weight = 3
identifier = "categories"
pre = ""
post = ""
name = "Categories"
url = "/categories/"
title = ""
# Markup related configuration in Hugo
[markup]
# Syntax Highlighting (https://gohugo.io/content-management/syntax-highlighting)
[markup.highlight]
# false is a necessary configuration (https://github.com/Fastbyte01/KeepIt/issues/158)
noClasses = false
--theme
option. However, we suggest you modify the configuration file (config.toml) and set the theme as the default.2.4 Create Your First Post
Here is the way to create your first post:
hugo new posts/first_post.md
Feel free to edit the post file by adding some sample content and replacing the title value in the beginning of the file.
draft: true
from the metadata, set the property draft: false
or add -D
/--buildDrafts
parameter to hugo
command.2.5 Launching the Website Locally
Launch by using the following command:
hugo serve
Go to http://localhost:1313
.
hugo serve
, when the contents of the files change, the page automatically refreshes with the changes.Since the theme use .Scratch
in Hugo to implement some features,
it is highly recommended that you add --disableFastRender
parameter to hugo server
command for the live preview of the page you are editing.
hugo serve --disableFastRender
2.6 Build the Website
When your site is ready to deploy, run the following command:
hugo
A public
folder will be generated, containing all static content and assets for your website. It can now be deployed on any web server.
3 Configuration
3.1 Site Configuration
In addition to Hugo global configuration
and menu configuration
, KeepIt lets you define the following parameters in your site configuration (here is a config.toml
, whose values are default).
Please open the code block below to view the complete sample configuration :
[params]
# site default theme ["auto", "light", "dark"]
defaultTheme = "auto"
# public git repo url only then enableGitInfo is true
gitRepo = ""
# which hash function used for SRI, when empty, no SRI is used
# ["sha256", "sha384", "sha512", "md5"]
fingerprint = ""
# date format
dateFormat = "2006-01-02"
# website title for Open Graph and Twitter Cards
title = "My cool site"
# website description for RSS, SEO, Open Graph and Twitter Cards
description = "This is my cool site"
# website images for Open Graph and Twitter Cards
images = ["/logo.png"]
# Header config
[params.header]
# desktop header mode ["fixed", "normal", "auto"]
desktopMode = "fixed"
# mobile header mode ["fixed", "normal", "auto"]
mobileMode = "auto"
# Header title config
[params.header.title]
# URL of the LOGO
logo = ""
# title name
name = ""
# you can add extra information before the name (HTML format is supported), such as icons
pre = ""
# you can add extra information after the name (HTML format is supported), such as icons
post = ""
# whether to use typeit animation for title name
typeit = false
# Footer config
[params.footer]
enable = true
# Custom content (HTML format is supported)
custom = ''
# whether to show Hugo and theme info
hugo = true
# whether to show copyright info
copyright = true
# whether to show the author
author = true
# Site creation time
since = 2019
# ICP info only in China (HTML format is supported)
icp = ""
# license info (HTML format is supported)
license = '<a rel="license external nofollow noopener noreffer" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/" target="_blank">CC BY-NC 4.0</a>'
# Section (all posts) page config
[params.section]
# special amount of posts in each section page
paginate = 20
# date format (month and day)
dateFormat = "01-02"
# amount of RSS pages
rss = 10
# List (category or tag) page config
[params.list]
# special amount of posts in each list page
paginate = 20
# date format (month and day)
dateFormat = "01-02"
# amount of RSS pages
rss = 10
# App icon config
[params.app]
# optional site title override for the app when added to an iOS home screen or Android launcher
title = "My cool site"
# whether to omit favicon resource links
noFavicon = false
# modern SVG favicon to use in place of older style .png and .ico files
svgFavicon = ""
# Android browser theme color
themeColor = "#ffffff"
# Safari mask icon color
iconColor = "#5bbad5"
# Windows v8-10 tile color
tileColor = "#da532c"
# Search config
[params.search]
enable = true
# type of search engine ["lunr", "algolia"]
type = "lunr"
# max index length of the chunked content
contentLength = 4000
# placeholder of the search bar
placeholder = ""
# max number of results length
maxResultLength = 10
# snippet length of the result
snippetLength = 30
# HTML tag name of the highlight part in results
highlightTag = "em"
# whether to use the absolute URL based on the baseURL in search index
absoluteURL = false
[params.search.algolia]
index = ""
appID = ""
searchKey = ""
# Home page config
[params.home]
# amount of RSS pages
rss = 10
# Home page profile
[params.home.profile]
enable = true
# Gravatar Email for preferred avatar in home page
gravatarEmail = ""
# URL of avatar shown in home page
avatarURL = "/images/avatar.png"
# title shown in home page (HTML format is supported)
title = ""
# subtitle shown in home page
subtitle = "This is My New Hugo Site"
# whether to use typeit animation for subtitle
typeit = true
# whether to show social links
social = true
# disclaimer (HTML format is supported)
disclaimer = ""
# Home page posts
[params.home.posts]
enable = true
# special amount of posts in each home posts page
paginate = 6
# replaced with hiddenFromHomePage in params.page
# default behavior when you don't set "hiddenFromHomePage" in front matter
defaultHiddenFromHomePage = false
# Social config about the author
[params.social]
GitHub = "xxxx"
Linkedin = ""
Twitter = "xxxx"
Instagram = "xxxx"
Facebook = "xxxx"
Telegram = "xxxx"
Medium = ""
Gitlab = ""
Youtubelegacy = ""
Youtubecustom = ""
Youtubechannel = ""
Tumblr = ""
Quora = ""
Keybase = ""
Pinterest = ""
Reddit = ""
Codepen = ""
FreeCodeCamp = ""
Bitbucket = ""
Stackoverflow = ""
Weibo = ""
Odnoklassniki = ""
VK = ""
Flickr = ""
Xing = ""
Snapchat = ""
Soundcloud = ""
Spotify = ""
Bandcamp = ""
Paypal = ""
Fivehundredpx = ""
Mix = ""
Goodreads = ""
Lastfm = ""
Foursquare = ""
Hackernews = ""
Kickstarter = ""
Patreon = ""
Steam = ""
Twitch = ""
Strava = ""
Skype = ""
Whatsapp = ""
Zhihu = ""
Douban = ""
Angellist = ""
Slidershare = ""
Jsfiddle = ""
Deviantart = ""
Behance = ""
Dribbble = ""
Wordpress = ""
Vine = ""
Googlescholar = ""
Researchgate = ""
Mastodon = ""
Thingiverse = ""
Devto = ""
Gitea = ""
XMPP = ""
Matrix = ""
Bilibili = ""
Email = "[email protected]"
RSS = true #
# Page global config
[params.page]
# whether to hide a page from home page
hiddenFromHomePage = false
# whether to hide a page from search results
hiddenFromSearch = false
# whether to enable twemoji
twemoji = false
# whether to enable lightgallery
lightgallery = false
# whether to enable the ruby extended syntax
ruby = true
# whether to enable the fraction extended syntax
fraction = true
# whether to enable the fontawesome extended syntax
fontawesome = true
# whether to show link to Raw Markdown content of the content
linkToMarkdown = true
# whether to show the full text content in RSS
rssFullText = false
# Table of the contents config
[params.page.toc]
# whether to enable the table of the contents
enable = true
# whether to keep the static table of the contents in front of the post
keepStatic = true
# whether to make the table of the contents in the sidebar automatically collapsed
auto = true
# KaTeX
mathematical formulas
[params.page.math]
enable = true
# default inline delimiter is $ ... $ and \( ... \)
inlineLeftDelimiter = ""
inlineRightDelimiter = ""
# default block delimiter is $$ ... $$, \[ ... \], \begin{equation} ... \end{equation} and some other functions
blockLeftDelimiter = ""
blockRightDelimiter = ""
# KaTeX extension copy_tex
copyTex = true
# KaTeX extension mhchem
mhchem = true
# Code config
[params.page.code]
# whether to show the copy button of the code block
copy = true
# the maximum number of lines of displayed code by default
maxShownLines = 50
# Mapbox GL JS
config
[params.page.mapbox]
# access token of Mapbox GL JS
accessToken = ""
# style for the light theme
lightStyle = "mapbox://styles/mapbox/light-v10?optimize=true"
# style for the dark theme
darkStyle = "mapbox://styles/mapbox/dark-v10?optimize=true"
# whether to add NavigationControl
navigation = true
# whether to add GeolocateControl
geolocate = true
# whether to add ScaleControl
scale = true
# whether to add FullscreenControl
fullscreen = true
# social share links in post page
[params.page.share]
enable = true
Twitter = true
Facebook = true
Linkedin = false
Whatsapp = false
Pinterest = false
Tumblr = false
HackerNews = true
Reddit = false
VK = false
Buffer = false
Xing = false
Line = true
Instapaper = false
Pocket = false
Flipboard = false
Weibo = true
Blogger = false
Baidu = false
Odnoklassniki = false
Evernote = false
Skype = false
Trello = false
Mix = false
# Comment config
[params.page.comment]
enable = false
# Disqus
comment config
[params.page.comment.disqus]
#
enable = false
# Disqus shortname to use Disqus in posts
shortname = ""
# Gitalk
comment config
[params.page.comment.gitalk]
#
enable = false
owner = ""
repo = ""
clientId = ""
clientSecret = ""
# Valine
comment config
[params.page.comment.valine]
enable = false
appId = ""
appKey = ""
placeholder = ""
avatar = "mp"
meta= ""
pageSize = 10
lang = ""
visitor = true
recordIP = true
highlight = true
enableQQ = false
serverURLs = ""
# emoji data file name, default is "google.yml"
# ["apple.yml", "google.yml", "facebook.yml", "twitter.yml"]
# located in "themes/KeepIt/assets/data/emoji/" directory
# you can store your own data files in the same path under your project:
# "assets/data/emoji/"
emoji = ""
# Facebook comment
config
[params.page.comment.facebook]
enable = false
width = "100%"
numPosts = 10
appId = ""
languageCode = ""
# Telegram comments
config
[params.page.comment.telegram]
enable = false
siteID = ""
limit = 5
height = ""
color = ""
colorful = true
dislikes = false
outlined = false
# Commento
comment config
[params.page.comment.commento]
enable = false
# Utterances
comment config
[params.page.comment.utterances]
enable = false
# owner/repo
repo = ""
issueTerm = "pathname"
label = ""
lightTheme = "github-light"
darkTheme = "github-dark"
# Third-party library config
[params.page.library]
[params.page.library.css]
# someCSS = "some.css"
# located in "assets/"
# Or
# someCSS = "https://cdn.example.com/some.css"
[params.page.library.js]
# someJavascript = "some.js"
# located in "assets/"
# Or
# someJavascript = "https://cdn.example.com/some.js"
# Page SEO config
[params.page.seo]
# image URL
images = []
# Publisher info
[params.page.seo.publisher]
name = ""
logoUrl = ""
# TypeIt config
[params.typeit]
# typing speed between each step (measured in milliseconds)
speed = 100
# blinking speed of the cursor (measured in milliseconds)
cursorSpeed = 1000
# character used for the cursor (HTML format is supported)
cursorChar = "|"
# cursor duration after typing finishing (measured in milliseconds, "-1" means unlimited)
duration = -1
# Site verification code config for Google/Bing/Yandex/Pinterest/Baidu
[params.verification]
google = ""
bing = ""
yandex = ""
pinterest = ""
baidu = ""
# Site SEO config
[params.seo]
# image URL
image = ""
# thumbnail URL
thumbnailUrl = ""
# Analytics config
[params.analytics]
enable = false
# Google Analytics
[params.analytics.google]
id = ""
# whether to anonymize IP
anonymizeIP = true
# Fathom Analytics
[params.analytics.fathom]
id = ""
# server url for your tracker if you're self hosting
server = ""
# Cookie consent config
[params.cookieconsent]
enable = true
# text strings used for Cookie consent banner
[params.cookieconsent.content]
message = ""
dismiss = ""
link = ""
# CDN config for third-party library files
[params.cdn]
# CDN data file name, disabled by default
# ["jsdelivr.yml"]
# located in "themes/KeepIt/assets/data/cdn/" directory
# you can store your own data files in the same path under your project:
# "assets/data/cdn/"
data = ""
# Compatibility config
[params.compatibility]
# whether to use Polyfill.io to be compatible with older browsers
polyfill = false
# whether to use object-fit-images to be compatible with older browsers
objectFit = false
# Markup related config in Hugo
[markup]
# Syntax Highlighting
[markup.highlight]
codeFences = true
guessSyntax = true
lineNos = true
lineNumbersInTable = true
# false is a necessary configuration
# (https://github.com/Fastbyte01/KeepIt/issues/158
)
noClasses = false
# Goldmark is from Hugo 0.60 the default library used for Markdown
[markup.goldmark]
[markup.goldmark.extensions]
definitionList = true
footnote = true
linkify = true
strikethrough = true
table = true
taskList = true
typographer = true
[markup.goldmark.renderer]
# whether to use HTML tags directly in the document
unsafe = true
# Table Of Contents settings
[markup.tableOfContents]
startLevel = 2
endLevel = 6
# Sitemap config
[sitemap]
changefreq = "weekly"
filename = "sitemap.xml"
priority = 0.5
# Permalinks config
[Permalinks]
# posts = ":year/:month/:filename"
posts = ":filename"
# Privacy config
[privacy]
# privacy of the Google Analytics (replaced by params.analytics.google)
[privacy.googleAnalytics]
# ...
[privacy.twitter]
enableDNT = true
[privacy.youtube]
privacyEnhanced = true
# Options to make output .md files
[mediaTypes]
[mediaTypes."text/plain"]
suffixes = ["md"]
# Options to make output .md files
[outputFormats.MarkDown]
mediaType = "text/plain"
isPlainText = true
isHTML = false
# Options to make hugo output files
[outputs]
#
home = ["HTML", "RSS", "JSON"]
page = ["HTML", "MarkDown"]
section = ["HTML", "RSS"]
taxonomy = ["HTML", "RSS"]
taxonomyTerm = ["HTML"]
Default environments are development
with hugo serve
and production
with hugo
.
Due to limitations in the local development
environment,
the comment system, CDN and fingerprint will not be enabled in the development
environment.
You could enable these features with hugo serve -e production
.
[params.cdn]
# CDN data file name, disabled by default
# ["jsdelivr.yml"]
data = ""
The default CDN data file is located in themes/KeepIt/assets/data/cdn/
directory.
You can store your own data file in the same path under your project: assets/data/cdn/
.
You can directly set your ID to get a default social link and its icon:
[params.social]
Mastodon = "@xxxx"
The social link generated is https://mastodon.technology/@xxxx
.
Or You can set more options through a dict:
[params.social]
[params.social.Mastodon]
# weight when arranging icons (the greater the weight, the later the icon is positioned)
weight = 0
# your social ID
id = "@xxxx"
# prefix of your social link
prefix = "https://mastodon.social/"
# content hovering on the icon
title = "Mastodon"
The default data of all supported social links is located in themes/KeepIt/assets/data/social.yaml
,
which is you can refer to.
3.2 Favicons, Browserconfig, Manifest
It is recommended to put your own favicons:
- apple-touch-icon.png (180x180)
- favicon-32x32.png (32x32)
- favicon-16x16.png (16x16)
- mstile-150x150.png (150x150)
- android-chrome-192x192.png (192x192)
- android-chrome-512x512.png (512x512)
into /static
. They’re easily created via https://realfavicongenerator.net/
.
Customize browserconfig.xml
and site.webmanifest
to set theme-color and background-color.
3.3 Style Customization
KeepIt theme has been built to be as configurable as possible by defining custom .scss
style files.
The directory including the custom .scss
style files is assets/css
relative to your project root directory.
In assets/css/_override.scss
, you can override the variables in themes/KeepIt/assets/css/_variables.scss
to customize the style.
Here is a example:
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Fira+Mono:400,700&display=swap&subset=latin-ext');
$code-font-family: Fira Mono, Source Code Pro, Menlo, Consolas, Monaco, monospace;
In assets/css/_custom.scss
, you can add some css style code to customize the style.
4 Multilingual and i18n
KeepIt theme is fully compatible with Hugo multilingual mode, which provides in-browser language switching.
4.1 Compatibility
Language | Hugo Code | HTML lang Attribute |
Theme Docs | Lunr.js Support |
---|---|---|---|---|
English | en |
en |
||
Simplified Chinese | zh-cn |
zh-CN |
||
Traditional Chinese | zh-tw |
zh-TW |
||
French | fr |
fr |
||
Polish | pl |
pl |
||
Brazilian Portuguese | pt-br |
pt-BR |
||
Italian | it |
it |
||
Spanish | es |
es |
||
German | de |
de |
||
German | de |
de |
||
Serbian | sr |
sr |
||
Russian | ru |
ru |
||
Romanian | ro |
ro |
||
Vietnamese | vi |
vi |
4.2 Basic Configuration
After learning how Hugo handle multilingual websites , define your languages in your site configuration .
For example with English, Chinese and French website:
# determines default content language ["en", "zh-cn", "fr", "pl", ...]
defaultContentLanguage = "en"
[languages]
[languages.en]
weight = 1
title = "My New Hugo Site"
languageCode = "en"
languageName = "English"
[[languages.en.menu.main]]
weight = 1
identifier = "posts"
pre = ""
post = ""
name = "Posts"
url = "/posts/"
title = ""
[[languages.en.menu.main]]
weight = 2
identifier = "tags"
pre = ""
post = ""
name = "Tags"
url = "/tags/"
title = ""
[[languages.en.menu.main]]
weight = 3
identifier = "categories"
pre = ""
post = ""
name = "Categories"
url = "/categories/"
title = ""
[languages.zh-cn]
weight = 2
title = "我的全新 Hugo 网站"
languageCode = "zh-CN"
languageName = "简体中文"
hasCJKLanguage = true
[[languages.zh-cn.menu.main]]
weight = 1
identifier = "posts"
pre = ""
post = ""
name = "文章"
url = "/posts/"
title = ""
[[languages.zh-cn.menu.main]]
weight = 2
identifier = "tags"
pre = ""
post = ""
name = "标签"
url = "/tags/"
title = ""
[[languages.zh-cn.menu.main]]
weight = 3
identifier = "categories"
pre = ""
post = ""
name = "分类"
url = "/categories/"
title = ""
[languages.fr]
weight = 3
title = "Mon nouveau site Hugo"
languageCode = "fr"
languageName = "Français"
[[languages.fr.menu.main]]
weight = 1
identifier = "posts"
pre = ""
post = ""
name = "Postes"
url = "/posts/"
title = ""
[[languages.fr.menu.main]]
weight = 2
identifier = "tags"
pre = ""
post = ""
name = "Balises"
url = "/tags/"
title = ""
[[languages.fr.menu.main]]
weight = 3
identifier = "categories"
name = "Catégories"
pre = ""
post = ""
url = "/categories/"
title = ""
Then, for each new page, append the language code to the file name.
Single file my-page.md
is split in three files:
- in English:
my-page.en.md
- in Chinese:
my-page.zh-cn.md
- in French:
my-page.fr.md
4.3 Overwrite Translation Strings
Translations strings are used for common default values used in the theme. Translations are available in some languages , but you may use another language or want to override default values.
To override these values, create a new file in your local i18n folder i18n/<languageCode>.toml
and inspire yourself from themes/KeepIt/i18n/en.toml
.
By the way, as these translations could be used by other people, please take the time to propose a translation by making a PR to the theme!
5 Search
Based on Lunr.js or algolia , searching is supported in KeepIt theme.
5.1 Output Configuration
In order to generate index.json
for searching, add JSON
output file type to the home
of the outputs
part in your site configuration
.
[outputs]
home = ["HTML", "RSS", "JSON"]
5.2 Search Configuration
Based on index.json
generated by Hugo, you could activate searching.
Here is the search configuration in your site configuration :
[params.search]
enable = true
# type of search engine ["lunr", "algolia"]
type = "lunr"
# max index length of the chunked content
contentLength = 4000
# placeholder of the search bar
placeholder = ""
# max number of results length
maxResultLength = 10
# snippet length of the result
snippetLength = 30
# HTML tag name of the highlight part in results
highlightTag = "em"
# whether to use the absolute URL based on the baseURL in search index
absoluteURL = false
[params.search.algolia]
index = ""
appID = ""
searchKey = ""
The following is a comparison of two search engines:
lunr
: simple, no need to synchronizeindex.json
, no limit forcontentLength
, but high bandwidth and low performance (Especially for Chinese which needs a large segmentit library)algolia
: high performance and low bandwidth, but need to synchronizeindex.json
and limit forcontentLength
The content of the post is separated by h2
and h3
HTML tag to improve query performance and basically implement full-text search.
contentLength
is used to limit the max index length of the part starting with h2
and h3
HTML tag.
index.json
files to algolia to activate searching.
You could upload the index.json
files by browsers but a CLI tool may be better.
The official Algolia CLI
is a good choice.
To be compatible with Hugo multilingual mode,
you need to upload different index.json
for each language to the different index of algolia, such as zh-cn/index.json
or fr/index.json
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