blogwebsitev1's Introduction

Portfolio and Blog Website

A port of Narative's beautiful Gatsby theme Novela for Hugo 🚀🚀

Prerequisites

Go > 1.12
Hugo > 0.65.0

Content Management System

Use your CMS of choice, or none at all.

Deploy on Netlify

Import your repository in Netlify

Create a new site in Netlify and import your repository.
Set the build command to: hugo --gc --minify
Set the publish directory to: public
Set GO_VERSION to 1.12 or above
Set HUGO_VERSION to 0.85.0 or above

That's it, now your site gets deployed automatically on git push or when saving documents from Forestry.

Development

# clone your repository
# cd in your project directory
# Start local server
hugo server

For more information, see official Hugo documentation.

Customization

Logo

Add to your projects layout directory your logo's SVG: /layouts/icons/ui/logo.html

Socials

In order for the Socials to be surfaced in Forestry, you should copy the theme's config/_default/social.yaml to your project.

Authors

You should register authors as a taxonomy in your project's `config.yaml``

taxonomies:
  author: authors

Creating authors

Add a similar file to your content directory and Front Matter example.

# /content/authors/firstname-lastname/_index.md
---
title: Full Name
bio: |
  Written by You. This is where your author bio lives. Share your work, your
  joys and of course, your Twitter handle.
avatar: /images/your-picture.jpg
featured: true
social:
  - title: github
    url: https://github.com
  - title: twitter
    url: https://twitter.com
  - title: instagram
    url: https://instagram.com
  - title: dribbble
    url: https://dribbble.com
  - title: unsplash
    url: https://unsplash.com
---