SimpleTheme

A simple theme using the Nord palette. Currently it is focused on single-author blogs and no i18n support.

Some features:

• Automatic light and dark theme
• 100% only Nord colors (Check Theme Parameters for code tags)
• Open Graph support
• Support for favicons
• Support for vector (SVG) logos
• Table of contents and header anchors
• Support for navigation headers
• Support for Image Processing without shortcodes (See Images)
• PostCSS

Quick installation

git submodule add https://github.com/1hiking/SimpleTheme.git themes/SimpleTheme

(Optional) For postCSS support you have to do the following commands:

• npm install @fullhuman/postcss-purgecss autoprefixer postcss postcss-cli
• Add postCSS = true in [params]
• Also add writeStats = true in [build]
• To configure postCSS, add a postcss.config.js and modify it.

Might want to read: How to PostCSS in Hugo.

Theme parameters

baseURL = "https://example.com"
languageCode = "en-us" # Language will defined on meta.
relativeURLs = true
title = "Example Site"
theme = "SimpleTheme"
sectionPagesMenu = "main" # Enables automatic navigation bar.

[build]
writeStats = true # Needed for PostCSS

[menu]
# https://gohugo.io/content-management/menus/
[[menu.main]]
identifier = "About"
name = "About"
url = "/about/"
weight = 10

[[menu.main]]
homepage = "Posts"
name = "Posts"
url = "/posts/"
weight = 10

[params]
dateFormat = "02 of January of 2006" # How the date will be displayed on posts.
copyright = "1hiking" # Will be displayed on Footer.
footerText = "SampleText" # Any text you might want to display will go here.
logo = "/path/to/image" # Supports SVG.
logoalt = "My great logo" # alt description of the logo.
postCSS = true # For postCSS support.

[author]
name = "example" # Name of the author.
github = "example" # https://github.com/example.

[markup]
  [markup.highlight]
    style = 'nord' # Add nord to match theme's palette

Adding a License

To add license as HTML, override the article-license.html with a CC license for example, you could use the Creative Commons webpage

Custom Shortcodes

You can add a Table of Content by adding the following line at the start of your article.

{{< toc >}}

You can define your own rendering on the configuration file

Credits

Partial work of this page was taken from this theme.