Hugo.io - Classic Theme

Classic is forked from the XMin theme, written by Yihui Xie.

It provides some simplifications, highlight.js for syntax highlighting, emoji support, and slick fonts.

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Instructions

1: Install Hugo.

brew install hugo

2: Create a new site.

hugo new site classic

3: Change to themes dir.

cd classic/themes

4: Clone the repo

git clone git@github.com:goodroot/hugo-classic.git

5: Copy the content/, static/css, and config.toml from the exampleSite directory into the classic directory. The existing content/, static/css, and config.toml files will be over-written.

6: Run hugo server within classic/ and enjoy and customize to your hearts content!

New Posts

To make new posts, simply use the command line:

hugo new post/good-to-great.md

Header Colour

To adjust the header colour, head to static/css/style.css and change…

header {
    background: #613DC1;
}

… background: to any colour value you’d like!

For header font:

header a {
    color: #fff;
}

Change color: to a nice matching colour.

Screenshot

Blog Posts

hugo-classic has appeared in…

15 Hugo Framework blog themes by paskal

See Also

• Hugo Xmin
• Hugo Theme Introduction
• Academic
• Ezhil
• Hugo Theme Yinyang