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Aditya Telange edited this page Jan 22, 2021 · 15 revisions

ToC

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Intro

  • We'll be using yml/yaml format for all examples down below, I recommend using yml over toml as it is easier to read.

  • You can find any YML to TOML converters if necessary.

Assets (js/css)

The following is enabled by default

Default Theme light/dark/auto

params:
    # defaultTheme: light
    # defaultTheme: dark
    defaultTheme: auto # to switch between dark or light according to browser theme

Theme Switch Toggle (enabled by default)

Shows icon besides title of page to change theme

To disable it :

disableThemeToggle: true

You can refer following table for better understanding...

defaultTheme disableThemeToggle checks local storage? checks system theme? Info
auto true No Yes only system theme
false Yes (if not->2) Yes (2) switch present
dark true No No force dark only
false Yes No switch present
light true No No force light only
false Yes No switch present

Archives Layout

Create a page with archive.md in content directory with following content

---
title: "Archive" # in any language you want
layout: "archives" # is necessary
url: "/archive"
summary: "archive"
---

Note: Archives Layout does not support Multilingual Month Translations.

ex: archives.md

Regular Mode (default-mode)

regular

Home-Info Mode

homeinfo

Use 1st entry as some Information

add following to config file

params:
    homeInfoParams:
        Title: Hi there wave
        Content: Can be Info, links, about...

    socialIcons: # optional
        - name: "<platform>"
            url: "<link>"
        - name: "<platform 2>"
            url: "<link2>"

ex. config.yml#L106

Profile Mode

profile

Shows Index/Home page as Full Page with Social Links and Image

add following to config file

params:
    profileMode:
        enabled: true
        title: "<Title>" # optional default will be site title
        imageUrl: "<image link>" # optional
        imageTitle: "<title of image as alt>" # optional
        imageWidth: 120 # custom size
        imageHeight: 120 # custom size
        buttons:
            - name: Archive
            url: "/archive"
            - name: Github
            url: "https://github.com/"

    socialIcons: # optional
        - name: "<platform>"
            url: "<link>"
        - name: "<platform 2>"
            url: "<link2>"

Search

Add the following to site config, config.yml

outputs:
    home:
        - HTML
        - RSS
        - JSON # is necessary

Create a page with search.md in content directory with following content

---
title: "Search" # in any language you want
layout: "search" # is necessary
# url: "/archive"
summary: "search"
---

For Multilingual use search.<lang>.md ex. search.es.md.

Note: Search will work only on current language, user is currently on !

Customizing Fusejs Options

Refer https://fusejs.io/api/options.html for Options, Add those as shown below.

params:
    fuseOpts:
        isCaseSensitive: false
        shouldSort: true
        location: 0
        distance: 1000
        threshold: 0.4
        minMatchCharLength: 0
        keys: ["title", "permalink", "summary", "content"]

ex: search.md

Draft Page indication

adds [draft] mark to indicate draft pages.

Post Cover Image

In post's page-variables add :

cover:
    image: "<image path/url>"
    # can also paste direct link from external site
    # ex. https://i.ibb.co/K0HVPBd/paper-mod-profilemode.png
    alt: "<alt text>"
    caption: "<text>"
    relative: false # To use relative path for cover image, used in hugo Page-bundles

When you include images in the Page Bundle, multiple sizes of the image will automatically be provided using the HTML5 srcset field.

To reduce generation time and size of the site, you can disable this feature using

params:
    cover:
        responsiveImages: false

To enable hyperlinks to the full image size on post pages, use

params:
    cover:
        linkFullImages: true

Share Buttons on post

Displays Share Buttons at Bottom of each post

to show share buttons add

params:
    ShowShareButtons: true

Show post reading time

Displays Reading Time (the estimated time, in minutes, it takes to read the content.)

To show reading time add

Params:
    ShowReadingTime: true

Show Table of Contents (Toc) on blog post

Displays ToC on blog-pages

To show ToC add following to page-variables

ShowToc: true

To keep Toc Open by default on a post add following to page-variables:

TocOpen: true

Multiple Authors

To Use multiple authors for a post, in post-variables:

---
author: ["Me", "You"]
---

To use Multiple Authors Site-wide, in config.yml:

params:
    author: ["Me", "You"]

Comments

to add comments, create a html file

layouts/partials/comments.html

and paste code provided by your comments provider

also in config add this

params:
    comments: true

read more about this hugo-comments

AccessKeys

c - ToC Open/Close
g - Go To Top
h - Home (according to current lang)
t - Theme toggle
/ - Jumps to search page if in menu

What's AccessKeys ?

Enhanced SEO

Enabled only when env: production

Multilingual Support

Misc

Scroll-Bar themed (by default)

Smooth Scroll between in-page links (by default)

Scroll-to-Top Button (by default)

Displays a Scroll-to-Top button in right-bottom corner

Google Analytics integration

Syntax highlighting

RSS feeds

Go-To-Top 🔝

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