This theme was made to help you present your ideas easier. We all know how hard is to start something on the web, especially these days. You need to prepare a bunch of stuff, configure them and when that’s done — create the content.
This theme is pretty basic and covers all of the essentials. All you have to do is start typing!
- Features
- Built-in shortcodes
- Code highlighting
- How to start
- How to configure
- How to add a cover image to your posts
- Add-ons
- How to run your site
- How to edit the theme
- How to contribute
- Hello Friend theme user?
- Licence
- dark/light mode, depending on your preferences (dark is default, but you can change it)
- great reading experience thanks to Inter font, made by Rasmus Andersson
- nice code highlighting thanks to PrismJS
- fully responsive
image(prop required:src; props optional:alt,position(left is default | center | right),style)- eg:
{{< image src="/img/hello.png" alt="Hello Friend" position="center" style="border-radius: 8px;" >}}
- eg:
figure(same asimage, plus few optional props:caption,captionPosition(left | center is default | right),captionStyle- eg:
{{< figure src="/img/hello.png" alt="Hello Friend" position="center" style="border-radius: 8px;" caption="Hello Friend!" captionPosition="right" captionStyle="color: red;" >}}
- eg:
By default the theme is using PrismJS to color your code syntax. All you need to do is to wrap you code like this:
```html // your code here ```
Supported languages: bash/shell, css, clike, javascript, apacheconf, actionscript, applescript, c, csharp, cpp, coffeescript, ruby, csp, css-extras, diff, django, docker, elixir, elm, markup-templating, erlang, fsharp, flow, git, go, graphql, less, handlebars, haskell, http, java, json, kotlin, latex, markdown, makefile, objectivec, ocaml, perl, php, php-extras, r, sql, processing, scss, python, jsx, typescript, toml, reason, textile, rust, sass, stylus, scheme, pug, swift, yaml, haml, twig, tsx, vim, visual-basic, wasm.
You can download the theme manually by going to https://github.com/panr/hugo-theme-hello-friend.git and pasting it to themes/hello-friend in your root directory.
You can also clone it directly to your Hugo folder:
$ git clone https://github.com/panr/hugo-theme-hello-friend.git themes/hello-friend
If you don't want to make any radical changes, it's the best option, because you can get new updates when they are available. To do so, include it as a git submodule:
$ git submodule add https://github.com/panr/hugo-theme-hello-friend.git themes/hello-friend
The theme doesn't require any advanced configuration. Just copy:
baseurl = "/"
languageCode = "en-us"
theme = "hello-friend"
paginate = 5
[params]
# dir name of your blog content (default is `content/posts`)
contentTypeName = "posts"
# "light" or "dark"
defaultTheme = "dark"
# if you set this to 0, only submenu trigger will be visible
showMenuItems = 2
# Show reading time in minutes for posts
showReadingTime = false
[languages]
[languages.en]
title = "Hello Friend"
subtitle = "A simple theme for Hugo"
keywords = ""
copyright = ""
menuMore = "Show more"
writtenBy = "Written by"
readMore = "Read more"
readOtherPosts = "Read other posts"
newerPosts = "Newer posts"
olderPosts = "Older posts"
minuteReadingTime = "min read"
dateFormatSingle = "2006-01-02"
dateFormatList = "2006-01-02"
[languages.en.params.logo]
logoText = "hello friend"
logoHomeLink = "/"
# or
#
# path = "/img/your-example-logo.svg"
# alt = "Your example logo alt text"
[languages.en.menu]
[[languages.en.menu.main]]
identifier = "about"
name = "About"
url = "/about"
[[languages.en.menu.main]]
identifier = "showcase"
name = "Showcase"
url = "/showcase"
to config.toml file in your Hugo root directory and change params fields. In case you need, here's a YAML version.
NOTE: Please keep in mind that currently main menu doesn't support nesting.
Adding a cover image to your post is simple and there are two options when you edit your index.md file in content/posts/blog-entry-xy/index.md:
- Use
cover = "/path/to/absolute/img.jpg"to link an absolute image- Resulting in
https://www.yourpage.com/path/to/absolute/img.jpg
- Resulting in
- Use
cover = "img.jpg"anduseRelativeCover = trueto link the image relative to the blog post folder- Resulting in
https://www.yourpage.com/posts/blog-entry-xy/img.jpg
- Resulting in
- Archive — Theme has built-in
archivepage for main content (seecontentTypeNamevariable in config). If you need archive on your blog just copy https://github.com/panr/hugo-theme-hello-friend/blob/master/exampleSite/content/archive.md to yourcontentdir. If you need multilangual archives, duplicatecontent/archive.mdand add.Langvariable, eg:content/archive.pl.md(remember to changeurlin duplicated file). - Comments — for adding comments to your blog posts please take a look at
layouts/partials/comments.htmlhttps://github.com/panr/hugo-theme-terminal/blob/master/layouts/partials/comments.html. - Extended
<head>— if you need to add something inside<head>element, please take a look atlayouts/partial/extended_head.htmlhttps://github.com/panr/hugo-theme-hello-friend/blob/master/layouts/partials/extended_head.html - Extended
<footer>— if you need to add something before end of<body>element, please take a look atlayouts/partial/extended_footer.htmlhttps://github.com/panr/hugo-theme-hello-friend/blob/master/layouts/partials/extended_footer.html
From your Hugo root directory run:
$ hugo server -t hello-friend
and go to localhost:1313 in your browser. From now on all the changes you make will go live, so you don't need to refresh your browser every single time.
If you have to override some of the styles, you can do this easily by adding static/style.css in your root directory and point things you want to change.
Otherwise, if you really want to edit the theme, you need to install Node dependencies. To do so, go to the theme directory (from your Hugo root directory):
$ cd themes/hello-friend
and then run:
$ npm install
$ npm i yarn
$ yarn
If you spot any bugs, please use Issue Tracker or if you want to add a new feature directly please create a new Pull Request.
I'd be happy to know more about you and what you are doing. If you want to share it, please make a contribution and add your site to the list! 🤗
Copyright © 2019 Radosław Kozieł (@panr)
The theme is released under the MIT License. Check the original theme license for additional licensing information.