Hugo-Primer

A simple and beautiful Hugo theme based on GitHub's Primer CSS

This theme would be a perfect fit if you are used to GitHub style pages.
Hugo-Primer is a theme based on GitHub style css: Primer, and adds some blog like features onto it.

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Features

  • [x] Primer css like theme
  • [x] Menu bar header
  • [x] Colored code pen
  • [x] Math inline
  • [x] Awesome TOC
  • [x] Tags & Categories
  • [x] Social Share buttons

Installation

Clone to your theme directory:

$ git clone https://github.com/qqhann/hugo-primer.git themes/hugo-primer

$ hugo server --theme=hugo-primer

Usage

config.toml

You can configure Hugo-Primer behavior with these params in your blog's config.toml. Shown are defaults and most recommended configs.

# config.toml

hasCJKLanguage = true
# Code pen
pygmentsCodeFences = true
pygmentsUseClasses = true

# Enter a copyright notice to display in the site footer.
# To display a copyright symbol, type `©`.
copyright = ""

[params]
# Chose Social Sharing Buttons you want to use.
shareTo = ["Twitter", "Hatena", "Facebook", "Pocket"]
# You may disable copyright sentence by setting this to false.
showFooterCredits = true

That being said, below is all recommended configuration example.

# config.toml

baseURL = "https://your_web_site"
title = "Your Blog"
theme = "hugo-primer"
languageCode = "ja"
# If you are using Chinese, Japanese, or Korean, I highly recommend you to set this true.
hasCJKLanguage = true
summaryLength = 70
# Code pen
pygmentsCodeFences = true
pygmentsUseClasses = true
googleAnalytics = "U-12345678-0"

# Enter a copyright notice to display in the site footer.
# To display a copyright symbol, type `©`.
copyright = "©Your Name 2019"

[frontmatter]
# update sitemap.xml's lastmod datetime by file change time, instead of git.
lastmod = ["lastmod", ":fileModTime", ":default"]

[params]
description = "Describe what your web page is about"
twitter = "your_twitter_id"
# You can use favicon by addin them manually.
useIcon = true
useTwitterCard = true

shareTo = ["Twitter", "Hatena", "Facebook", "Pocket"]
showFooterCredits = true

archetypes/default.md

It is also recommended to remove your site's archetypes/default.md, or copy Hugo-Primer's archetypes/default.md to your site.

---
title: "{{ replace .Name "-" " " | title }}"
date: {{ .Date }}
draft: true
categories:
tags:
keywords:
---

Example usage:

---
categories:
- Diary
tags:
- Shopping
- Health
---

Set keywords for seo.

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