slate theme for hugo

slate is a single-page speed dial theme for Hugo. Supports using image logos or url text for the contents of the tiles.

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Features

  • Rotating image background
  • Image and Text tile display mode
  • Tag based navigation/filtering

Installation

Installing this theme

mkdir themes
cd themes
git clone https://github.com/gesquive/slate

Build with this theme

hugo server -t slate

Configuration

The following configuration site params are available:

  • BackgroundImages: (optional) specifies a list of backgrounds to rotate through, if not provided, then the specified background style will be used
  • BackgroundStyle: (optional) The background CSS style to use. (default value is radial-gradient(ellipse farthest-side at center top, #FCFCFC 0%, #657383 100%))
  • OpenLinksInNewWindow: (optional) boolean to set if tile links open in a new window/tab. (default values is false)
  • Favicon: (optional) path to the favicon

config.toml

baseURL = "http://example.org/"
languageCode = "en-us"
title = "My New Hugo Site"
theme = "slate"

[ params ]
BackgroundImages = [
  "bg/b1920-000.jpg",
  "bg/b1920-001.jpg",
  "bg/b1920-002.jpg",
  "bg/b1920-003.jpg",
  "bg/b1920-004.jpg"
]
BackgroundStyle = "#000000;"
OpenLinksInNewWindow = true
Favicon = "favicon.ico"

# list of nav tags
[[ params.nav ]]
name = "favorites"
tag = "favorite"
icon = "star"

Example : config.toml

All links are defined in the data/links.yml data file. Valid attributes are:

  • name: the name displayed below the tile, also used as tile text if javascript is disabled in the client browser.
  • url: the url href, also used for text when no img is specified
  • tags: (optional) list of tags to apply to this tile
  • img: (optional) path to tile image, this will replace any text in the tile
  • txt_color: (optional) css used to set the color of a tile, a random value is chosen if none is specified
  • bg_color: (optional) css used to set the background-color of a tile.

Example of link definitions in the data file.

tiles:
-
  name: 'google'
  url: 'https://google.com'
  img: 'google.svg'
  tags: ['favorite', 'search']
-
  name: 'bing'
  url: 'https://bing.com'
  img: 'bing.svg'
  txt_color: '#ffffff'
  bg_color: '#ffb900'
  tags: ['search']
-
  name: 'amazon'
  url: 'https://amazon.com'
  img: 'amazon.svg'
  bg_color: '#ffffff'
  txt_color: '#ff9900'
  tags: ['favorite', 'shopping']
-
  name: 'reddit'
  url: 'https://reddit.com'
  img: 'reddit.svg'
  bg_color: '#5f99cf'
  txt_color: '#ffffff'
-
  name: 'spotify'
  url: 'https://web.spotify.com'
  img: 'spotify.svg'
  bg_color: '#191414'
  txt_color: '#1db954'
  tags: ['favorite', 'music']
-
  name: 'google music'
  url: 'https://play.google.com/music/listen'
  img: 'google-music.png'
  bg_color: '#ffffff'
  txt_color: '#ff5722'
  tags: ['music']
-
  name: 'pandora'
  url: 'https://pandora.com'
  img: 'pandora.svg'
  bg_color: '#005483'
  txt_color: '#ffffff'
  tags: ['music']

Along the left side of the screen is a navigation bar that can be used to filter the links. The filtering occurs on the tag attribute of the links. For example, when the 'favorite' tag is selected, only the links with the 'favorite' tag attribute will be shown.

A nav filter is defined as:

  • name: The name displayed in the UI
  • tag: the tag name to filter links with
  • icon: the font-awesome name of the icon to display

Example of a menu definition in main config file.

[[ params.nav ]]
name = "favorites"
tag = "favorite"
icon = "star"

[[ params.nav ]]
name = "search"
tag = "search"
icon = "search"

[[ params.nav ]]
name = "shopping"
tag = "shopping"
icon = "shopping-basket"

[[ params.nav ]]
name = "music"
tag = "music"
icon = "headphones"

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