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Materialize-BP

MaterializeCSS based Hugo theme which supports out of the box best practices.

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Materialize-BP

Materialize-BP hugo theme

MaterializeCSS based Hugo theme which provides out of the box best practices like performance and SEO readiness. Featured images will be resized automatically. This is based on the Hugo docs, hugo-best-practices, Front-End Checklist and the Front-End Performance Checklist.

Other themes by Sebastian Pech: Bootstrap-BP, Materialize-BP, Bootstrap-BP hugo startpage.

Table of contents

  • Materialize-BP hugo theme
    • Table of contents
    • Features
    • Install the theme
    • Update the theme
    • Run example site
    • Configuration and theme specific settings
    • Screenshots of configurations
    • Google Analytics
    • Page templates / archetypes
    • Schema.org support
    • Images, Open Graph and Twitter Cards
    • Menus
    • Social Icons
    • Custom CSS/JS

Features

  • Color themes
  • SEO best practices supported (Schema.org, open graph, meta information, …)
  • Automatically resizing of images
  • One minified file per resource only (js, css)
  • CDN font support (Google Fonts, …)
  • Optional masonry-like mode for startpage
  • Settings for easy customization of layouts and features
  • Multiple page templates / archetypes supported
  • Icons for Social Media
  • Custom css/js
  • Multilingual and i18n support
  • …

Install the theme

With Git installed, run the following commands inside the Hugo site folder. If Hugo has not yet been installed, read the setup guide here.

mkdir themes
cd themes
git clone https://github.com/spech66/materialize-bp-hugo-theme.git

You can get a zip of the latest version of the theme from the home page and extract it to the themes folder.

Update the theme

Go to the themes folder as in the installation and run the following command.

git pull

Run example site

Go to the exampleSite folder from the theme themes/materialize-bp-hugo-theme/exampleSite and run the following command.

hugo server --themesDir ../..

Configuration and theme specific settings

Most settings should be done with hugo specific variables. There are only a few (optional) additional [params]. Use the config.toml from the exampleSite subdirectory as base.

  • startPageColumns = true will show the start page in a Masonry-like mode.
  • customDateFormat = "02.01.2006" to override the date format.
  • showListsGrouped = true to add headers for every year.
  • showPostSummary = true to only show a summary on index and lists.
  • alwaysExpandMenu = true to expand the menu on non-mobile devices otherwise the mobile button is shown on all devices. (WiP - Only in bootstrap at the moment)
  • hideReadingTime to hide reading time.

Theme colors might be changed using the main colors from Materialize color palette. Might be like one of this: red, pink, indigo lighten-2, cyan, blue, light-green, amber, …

  • themeColor1 used by main buttons and navbar. (default=light-blue)
  • themeColor1text used by headlines. (default=light-blue-text)
  • themeColor2 used by footer. (default=orange)
  • themeColor2text used by footer and card actions. (default=orange-text text-lighten-3)

Currently the link color, pagination and blockquote color needs to be adjusted according to main.css too. Overwrite in your /assets/css/custom.css file.

Screenshots of configurations

startPageColumns = false

startPageColumns = false

startPageColumns = true

startPageColumns = true

Google Analytics

The native Hugo Google Analytics template has been removed!

Page templates / archetypes

This theme has support for the following archetypes. Based on the specified types the layout and functionality of a page is slightly changed.

  • Page (not on the startpage)
  • Post (regular post/blog pages)
  • Audio (shows spotify in the header)
  • Video (shows youtube in the header)
  • Quote (highlights a quote and the author)
  • Link (show a link with the page title)

Schema.org support

Provide one author to enable the Schema.org support.

[Author]  
  name = "Sebastian Pech"

Images, Open Graph and Twitter Cards

This theme uses Hugos feature/cover name method to set the optimized feature image. The image named *feature* or *cover* is used for the posts featured image and get resized. This will also be in the Twitter Cards and Open Graph block.

The header image is automatically added if there is a file called *feature* or *cover*. The first wildcard is preferred over the second one. If there are multiple images the first one is used.

# Site Config toml
title = "My hugo site"

[params]
  description = "Text about the site"

# Post yaml
---
title: "{{ replace .Name "-" " " }}"
date: {{ .Date }}
publishdate: {{ now.Format "2006-01-02" }}
lastmod: {{ now.Format "2006-01-02" }}
draft: true
description: "Text about this post"
tags:
    - "tag 1"
---

There are two menus in the theme. main and footer. Specify the entries in the config or the header of the content.

[menu]

  [[menu.main]]
    identifier = "about"
    # name = "About"  # Material Icons are displayed as block so use the icon only
    url = "/about/"
    weight = 10
    pre = "<i class='material-icons'>speaker_notes</i>" # Material Icons
    # pre = "<i class='fas fa-heart'></i>" # FontAwesone has more love ;-)

  [[menu.footer]]
    identifier = "Imprint"
    name = "Imprint"
    url = "/imprint/"
    weight = 10

  [[menu.footer]]
    identifier = "categories"
    name = "Categories"
    url = "/categories/"
    weight = 20

  [[menu.footer]]
    identifier = "tags"
    name = "Tags"
    url = "/tags/"
    weight = 30

---
[...]
menu = "main"
---

Social Icons

Icons for Social Media. Add the block to the config.

# Sets Social Media icons to appear and link to your account. Value should be your
# username unless otherwise noted.
# Code from https://themes.gohugo.io/future-imperfect/ theme
[social]
  # Coding Communities
  github           = ""
  gitlab           = ""
  stackoverflow    = "" # User Number
  bitbucket        = ""
  jsfiddle         = ""
  codepen          = ""
  # Visual Art Communities
  deviantart       = ""
  flickr           = ""
  behance          = ""
  dribbble         = ""
  # Publishing Communities
  wordpress        = ""
  medium           = ""
  # Professional/Business Oriented Communities
  linkedin         = ""
  linkedin_company = ""
  foursquare       = ""
  xing             = ""
  slideshare       = ""
  # Social Networks
  facebook         = ""
  googleplus       = ""
  reddit           = ""
  quora            = ""
  youtube          = ""
  vimeo            = ""
  whatsapp         = "" # WhatsApp Number
  instagram        = ""
  tumblr           = ""
  twitter          = ""
  skype            = ""
  snapchat         = ""
  pinterest        = ""
  telegram         = ""
  discord          = "" # invite link
  # Email
  email            = ""

Custom CSS/JS

The theme provides two ways for custom css/js. The first way is writing your styles to /assets/css/custom.css and scripts to /assets/js/custom.js. This will merge and minify the styles/scripts with the theme specific files resulting in only one file for the whole website.

The second way is using the Site configuration or the post metadata to target specific files in the /assets/ folder. This will result in one import line per script/style.

[params]
  js=["/js/test_site.js"]
  jscdn=["https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/vue@2.x/dist/vue.js"]
  css=["/css/test_site.css"]
  csscdn=["https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto&display=swap"]

---
js:
    - /js/test.js
jscdn:
    - https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/vue@2.x/dist/vue.js
css:
    - /css/test.css
csscdn:
    - https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto:100,300,400,500,700,900
---

See also