Hugo Toigian

A minimal Hugo theme with Tailwind CSS

Toigian - Tối giản (vietnamese): Minimalist (english)

Disclaimer: I’m not a front-end developer, just a guy who like tweaking stuff, so my code may not be pretty/clean. I attempt to learn Tailwind CSS, and hugo-toigian is the result.

• 0. Showcase
• 1. Features
• 2. Prerequisites
• 3. Installation
• 3. Configuration
  • 3.1. Site configuration
  • 3.2. Page configuration
• 4. Shortcodes
• 5. Customization
• 6. Contributing
• 7. Credits

0. Showcase

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1. Features

• Minimalist (tối giản) design. Highly inspired by mellow.dev.
• Use the classy minimalist Rosé Pine color palette.
• Customizable.
• Support light/dark mode.
• Nested counters for heading.
• Side floating Table of content.
• Useful shortcodes.
• Comments support.
• Syntax highlighting: use server-side solution (Chroma, hugo built-in), I’ve added Rosé Pine styles to Chroma, so everything is the same vibe.

2. Prerequisites

• git, npm installed.
• A minimum Hugo “extended” version of v0.93.0 and above.

snap install hugo --channel=extended

• Hugo Pipe’s PostCSS requires the postcss-cli JavaScript package to be installed in the environment (npm install -g postcss postcss-cli) along with any PostCSS plugin(s) used (e.g., npm install -g autoprefixer). If you are using the Hugo Snap package, PostCSS and plugin(s) need to be installed locally within your Hugo site directory, e.g., npm install postcss-cli without the -g flag.

3. Installation

• Go to root directory of your Hugo website, or create a new site with:

hugo new site hugo-example-site
cd hugo-example-site
git init

• Add the theme.

git submodule add https://github.com/ntk148v/hugo-toigian.git themes/hugo-toigian

• Install Nodejs modules.

cd themes/hugo-toigian
npm install

• Finally, update theme in your configuration config.toml file in the root directory of your Hugo website.

theme = "hugo-toigian"

• Run server to see a live preview of it.

hugo server -DF --disableFastRender

• Build static pages

hugo --environment production --minify

3. Configuration

3.1. Site configuration

There are a few configuration options that you can add to config.toml file.

baseURL = 'http://example.org/'
languageCode = 'en-us'
title = 'Toigian'
theme = "hugo-toigian"
themesDir = "../.."
# (Optional) If you provide a Disqus shortname, comments will be enabled on
# all pages.
# disqusShortname = "my-site"

[params]
# (Optional, default true): Controls table of contents visibility on right side of pages.
# Start and end levels can be controlled with markup.tableOfContents setting.
toc = true
# (Optional, default true) Enables comments template on pages
# By default partials/docs/comments.html includes Disqus template
# See https://gohugo.io/content-management/comments/#configure-disqus
# Can be overwritten by same param in page frontmatter
comments = true

[params.author]
name = "Kien Nguyen-Tuan"
email = "kiennt2609@gmail.com"

[markup]
  defaultMarkdownHandler = "goldmark"
  # By default, Goldmark trims unsafe outputs which might prevent some shortcodes from rendering.
  # It is recommended to set markup.goldmark.renderer.unsafe=true if you encounter problems.
  [markup.goldmark]
    [markup.goldmark.renderer]
      unsafe = true  # Enable user to embed HTML snippets in Markdown content.
  [markup.highlight]
    codeFences = true
    guessSyntax = true
    lineNos = false
    noClasses = false
    tabWidth = 4
  [markup.tableOfContents]
    startLevel = 2
    endLevel = 4
    ordered = true

# The left side navbar at the top
[menu]
  [[menu.nav]]
  name = "About"
  url = "/about"
  weight = 2

  [[menu.nav]]
  name = "Posts"
  url = "/posts"
  weight = 3

3.2. Page configuration

You can specify additional params in the front matter of individual pages.

# Your posts tags

tags = []

# If you have enabled comments for the site, you can disable it for specific pages

comment = true

4. Shortcodes

Check out shortcodes.

5. Customization

• Partials: There are layout partials available for you to easily override components of the theme in layouts/partials/.

• Extra customization:

• For example, you don’t like the chosen font (Inconsolata), and you want to use your own choice, follow these steps:

  • Create layouts/partials/font.html to import your fonts:

  <!-- load Inter and Overpass fonts -->
  <link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com" />
  <link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin />
  <link
    href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Inter:wght@400;500;700&family=Overpass:wght@400;500&display=swap"
    rel="stylesheet"
  />
  

  • Create assets/css/custom.css:

  // change the default mono font to Overpass
  :root {
    --font-mono: "Overpass";
    --font-serif: "Inter";
  }
  

6. Contributing

As you already known, I’m not front-end developer. Therefore, if you find anything wrong or want to make improvement, don’t hesitate to open an issue/pull request.

Primary goals are:

• Keep it simple.
• Avoid using JS if it can be solved by CSS.

Feel free to open issues if you find missing configuration or customization options.

7. Credits

• hugo-book
• dirkolbrich/hugo-tailwindcss-starter-theme