Hugo Themes
SimpleIT
Responsive Hugo theme displaying articles by directory
- Author: Marcelo Canina
- GitHub Stars: 17
- Updated: 2023-10-12
- License: MIT
- Tags: Bootstrap Responsive
SimpleIT Hugo Theme
Responsive Hugo theme displaying articles by directory.
Homepage displays the full directory tree structure and each section/“subsection” its own articles and nested sections.
Table of Contents
- SimpleIT Hugo Theme
- Features
- Nested subcategories
- Adding content
- Adding posts without images
- Adding posts with images
- Adding images used in many posts
- Adding pages in multiple languages
- Installation
- As a git submodule
- If you don’t have Hugo with git
- Updating the theme
- Run locally
- Theme config
- Website in subdirectory
- Customizing styles for your website
- Notes for developers
- Build
- Screenshots
- Contributing
- Websites using theme
- Reference
- License
Features
Features:
mobile-first design
two main layouts:
- single page
- Automatic TOCs based in content headers placed in sidebar
- Choose Share Buttons type
- static buttons optimized for loading speed
- generated with https://sharingbuttons.io/ (fast, minimal footprint)
- Commenting system
- Disqus
- directory/category lists
- If
/static/img/cover.jpg
exists, it is added as the background of the homepage header section
- If
- single page
SEO
- Hugo internal templates
- Open Graph
{{- template "_internal/opengraph.html" . -}}
- Schema metatags
{{- template "_internal/schema.html" . -}}
- When an article is updated, it automatically generates
dateModified
itemprop and shows the Last Updated info in the article. It obtains the data from the git repo.
- Twitter Cards
{{- template "_internal/twitter_cards.html" . -}}
- Open Graph
- produces
- minified HTML
- SASS compiled in one CSS file
- One javascript file
- Multilingual:
- In
head
: Each page specifies other languages versions in meta as specified in Tell Google about localized versions of your page like: -<link rel="alternate" hreflang="lang_code" href="url_of_page" />
- In
footer
: Show alternative page translations, falling back to site available languages if a specific page doesn’t have translation
- In
- Hugo internal templates
Analytics
- Google Analytics
- Bing
Monetization:
- Google Adsense:
- Page level
- Automatic ads just setting up config key
- Optional support buttons in articles:
- Buy me a coffee
- Ko-fi id
- Google Adsense:
Content in tree directory structure of arbitrary depth supported
- nested directories, each directory having its own articles and possible other directories
Third-party apps
- Twitter Bootstrap 4
- Icons: Fontawesome 5
Author box for each article.
- Only shown in pages if
bio
is set at[params.author]
in configuration. - Can be hidden with frontmatter:
hide_author: true
- Only shown in pages if
About me page in footer if
page_about_me_relurl
set in configuration for each language.[languages] [languages.en] page_about_me_relurl = "/about/"
Previous/Next article buttons when displaying a single article.
Generates an
rss+xml
Atom file, an XML-based Web content and metadata syndication format, for each directory/subdirectory.- Example for URL:
https://simpleit.rocks/python/django/index.xml"
includes thelink
:<link href="https://simpleit.rocks/python/django/index.xml" rel="alternate" title="Simple IT 🤘 Rocks" type="application/rss+xml"/>
- Example for URL:
Nested subcategories
The nested subcategories (aka.:sections/nested sections) get the same URLs as the directory structure, for example, the following directory/files would be available at these URLs:
PATH URL
exampleSite/content/
|-- en
| |-- _index.md /
| |-- a-root-level-article.md /a-root-level-article/
| |-- about.md /about/
| |-- bar-first-level-section /bar-first-level-section/
| | `-- bar-page-in-section.md /bar-first-level-section/bar-page-in-section/
| |-- baz-first-level-section
| | `-- _index.md /baz-first-level-section/
| `-- foo-first-level-section
| |-- _index.md /foo-first-level-section/
| |-- foo-second-level
| | |-- _index.md /foo-first-level-section/foo-second-level/
| | |-- foo-third-level
| | | |-- _index.md /foo-first-level-section/foo-second-level/foo-third-level/
| | | `-- page-at-foo-third-level.md /foo-first-level-section/foo-second-level/foo-third-level/page-at-foo-third-level/
| | `-- page-at-foo-second-level.md /foo-first-level-section/foo-second-level/page-at-foo-second-level/
| `-- page-at-section-level.md /foo-first-level-section/page-at-section-level/
`-- es
|-- _index.md /es/
`-- foo-seccion-primer-nivel
|-- _index.md /es/foo-section-primer-nivel
`-- foo-segundo-nivel
|-- _index.md /es/foo-section-primer-nivel/foo-segundo-nivel
`-- pagina-en-segundo-nivel.md /es/foo-section-primer-nivel/foo-segundo-nivel/pagina-en-segundo-nivel/
Adding content
$ hugo new <sections>/<article>.md
There are two types of Posts, with and without images. The cleanest way to have them is to create a directory for those posts that have images, and put all post’s images in that directory.
Adding posts without images
A post without a cover image should be created with the slug as the
filename inside the directory you want, for example, to create the
post
http://example.com/foo-first-level-section/page-at-foo-first-level
you should create the file /content/foo-first-level-section/foo-second-level/page-at-foo-second-level.md
slug will be obtained from post’s filename
---
title: "Post example without images"
date: 2019-01-10
subtitle: ''
description: ''
---
## Overview
Here I don't use any image!
Adding posts with images
Posts with images can have two types of images:
- Cover image
- Displayed at the top section of the post
- Used in Facebook’s OpenGraph / Twitter cards metadata (a.k.a. the image that will be displayed when sharing the post in those Social Networks)
- Should be defined at post’s frontmatter.
- Content images
- Images used along the post content
For example, to create the post
http://example.com/foo-first-level-section/page-at-foo-first-level
you should create the directory with the slug name and content
inside the directory as an index.md
file
/content/foo-first-level-section/foo-second-level/page-at-foo-second-level/index.md
.
All images used by this post goes inside the above directory (/content/foo-first-level-section/foo-second-level/page-at-foo-second-level/
)
And slug will be obtained from post’s directory name.
To add the cover image, so it can be displayed by OpenGraph and
Twitter, add the metadata to the resources frontmatter section and
put the image in the newly created directory
/content/foo-first-level-section/foo-second-level/page-at-foo-second-level/victor_hugo.jpg
.
The featured image resource name must be cover so it will be used as the featured image of the article.
This follows the standard name name defined by Hugo for Twitter Cards featured image.
Rest of images should be configured in an images array in front matter, being the first one the featured image. This will be used in Facebook’s OpenGraph metadata and Twitter Cards image section, so it is displayed when sharing them.
In images array, the full path after content directory preppended to image name should be used, as Hugo loads them preppending the website’s domain.
Then other images in same directory and used in content /content/foo-first-level-section/foo-second-level/page-at-foo-second-level/dcu_models.jpg
---
title: "Post example with images in cover and content"
date: 2019-01-10
subtitle: ''
description: ''
images:
- foo-first-level-section/foo-second-level/page-at-foo-second-level/victor_hugo.jpg
- foo-first-level-section/foo-second-level/page-at-foo-second-level/dcu_models.jpg
resources:
- name: cover # this should be the name if you want it to appear as article's featured image and used by OpenGraph and Twitter cards
src: victor_hugo.jpg
title: "Portrait photograph of Victor Hugo"
params: #can be ommited
license: "Public Domain"
original: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Victor_Hugo_by_%C3%89tienne_Carjat_1876_-_full.jpg"
---
## Overview
Hey! I have an image that it is not featured, look:
<img class="img-fluid" alt="model diagram" src="dcu_models.jpg" />
Tree directory structure of
/content/foo-first-level-section/foo-second-level/page-at-foo-second-level/
would look like:
.
|_ index.md
|_ dcu_models.jpg
|_ victor_hugo.jpg
Adding images used in many posts
You can also add images to site’s root at /assets/img/
and then use
it directly referring them with full path /img/....
.
For example, for my_image.png
at /assets/img/
then it can be used in multiple posts:
<img class="img-fluid" alt="example image" src="/img/my_image.png" />
.
Adding pages in multiple languages
To add a new language, just specify it in the [languages]
section of
config.toml
and create a subdirectory in /content
as specified at
Translation by content directory
.
Then for each page or section:
Set translationKey for _index
and pages and their slug as
directory or filename. I use the slug of the section/page I am
translating as the translation key, for example for
/content/en/foo/_index.md
:
EN:
/content/en/foo/
---- translationKey = "foo" ----
ES:
/content/es/foo-slug-in-spanish/
---- translationKey = "foo" ----
Same process for pages.
Then each level of the hierarchy will have its corresponding page in the other language, and subdirectories will also be translated.
Installation
As a git submodule
$ git submodule add -f https://github.com/marcanuy/simpleit-hugo-theme themes/simpleit-hugo-theme
If you don’t have Hugo with git
Inside the folder of your Hugo site run:
$ cd themes
$ git clone https://github.com/marcanuy/simpleit-hugo-theme
Updating the theme
After installing the theme, if you added it as a git submodule
, you
can update it with:
git submodule update --remote --merge
Run locally
In order to see your site in action, run Hugo’s built-in local server.
$ hugo server -t simpleit-hugo-theme
Now enter localhost:1313
in the address bar of your browser.
Or just set theme="simpleit-hugo-theme"
in your configuration.
Theme config
Have a look at /exampleSite/config.toml for theme customization options.
Website in subdirectory
If the website is located in a subdirectory like example.com/blog/
then URLs should be generated with an absolute path with the following
configuration:
canonifyURLs = true
Customizing styles for your website
If you want to change some styling to fit your own website needs, copy the following files to your website instance and edit them:
assets/sass/custom_variables.scss
: customize variables used by Bootstrap.assets/sass/styles.scss
: your main website styles with all Bootstrap variables avaiable.
Or include them with a SCSS include:
- for
custom_variables.scss
:
@import "../../themes/simpleit-hugo-theme/assets/sass/custom_variables.scss";
and for styles.scss
@import "../../themes/simpleit-hugo-theme/assets/sass/styles.scss";
Notes for developers
If you plan to change something or contribute to theme development keep in mind that this theme uses npm to handle packages, to install its dependencies:
$ cd themes/simpleit-hugo-theme
$ make install
All Bootstrap and Fontawesome SASS variables are available to
customizing the variables
In assets/sass/custom_variables.scss you can customize Bootstrap.
use variables in assets/sass/styles.css
For example, using Fontawesome variables like
$fa-var-twitter
, inassets/sass/styles.scss
:.twitter { @include fa-icon; @extend .fab; &:before { content: fa-content($fa-var-twitter); } }
or using Bootstrap variables like
$kbd-bg
, inassets/sass/styles.scss
:.shell { background-color: $kbd-bg; }
Build
Building or serving the website:
$ cd themes/simpleit-hugo-theme
$ make build
Serving the theme with changes:
$ cd themes/simpleit-hugo-theme
$ make serve
Screenshots
Single page screenshot:
Contributing
Did you found a bug or got an idea for a new feature? Feel free to use the issue tracker to let me know. Or make directly a pull request.
Websites using theme
Hugo websites using this theme:
- https://simpleit.rocks
- https://therunningsecret.com
Add your own website here with a Pull Request!
Reference
- Github repo: https://github.com/marcanuy/simpleit-hugo-theme.git
- Page at Hugo themes site: https://themes.gohugo.io/simpleit-hugo-theme/
- Hierarchical content demo: https://marcanuy.github.io/simpleit-hugo-theme/
- Flat demo: https://themes.gohugo.io/theme/simpleit-hugo-theme/
License
This theme is released under the MIT License. For more information read the License.