CASPER theme for hugo

Casper is a single-column theme for Hugo. Ported from Casper theme for Ghost

blog demo : http://vjeantet.fr blog source : https://github.com/vjeantet/vjeantet.fr

Hugo Casper Theme screenshot

Features

Google Analytics (optional)
Disqus ( can disable comments by content)
Share buttons on Facebook, Twitter, Google (can disable share by content)
Big cover image (optional)
Custom cover by content (optional)
Tagging
Pagination
Menu

Theme usage and asumptions

All blog posts are in the post folder (content/post)
The homepage displays a paginated list of contents from the post Section (other contents may be added to main menu, see bellow)

Installation

Installing this theme

mkdir themes
cd themes
git clone https://github.com/vjeantet/hugo-theme-casper casper

Build your website with this theme

hugo server -t casper

Configuration

config.toml

BaseUrl= "http://example.com/"
LanguageCode= "fr-FR"
Title= "My blog is awesome"
paginate = 5
DisqusShortname = "YOUR_SHORT_NAME_HERE"
Copyright = "All rights reserved - 2015"
canonifyurls = true

[params]
  description = "this is my description"
  cover = "images/cover.jpg"
  author = "Valère JEANTET"
  authorlocation = "Paris, France"
  authorwebsite = "http://vjeantet.fr"
  bio= "my bio"
  logo = "images/logo.png"
  googleAnalyticsUserID = "UA-79101-12"
  # Optional RSS-Link, if not provided it defaults to the standard index.xml
  RSSLink = "http://feeds.feedburner.com/..." 
  githubName = "vjeantet"
  twitterName = "vjeantet"
  # facebookName = ""
  # set true if you are not proud of using Hugo (true will hide the footer note "Proudly published with HUGO.....")
  hideHUGOSupport = false

Example : config.toml

Multiple authors configuration

In addition to providing data for a single author as shown in the example above, multiple authors can be configured via data/authors/*.(yml, toml, json) entries. If the key provided in .Site.Params.author matched a data/authors/* entry, it will be used as the default. Overrides per page can be done by a simple author = other_author_key entry in the front matter. For those pages where you want to omit the author block completely, a .Params.noauthor entry is also available.

Example author definition file:

name: John Doe
bio: The most uninteresting man in the world.
location: Normal, IL
website: http://example.com

Example override author per page file:

+++
author = ""
date = "2014-07-11T10:54:24+02:00"
title = ""
...
+++

Contents here

On top right of the screen, a “Subscribe” button is displayed with a link to the RSS feed.

When you define a menu in the main config file, Then a menu button is displayed instead of the subscribe button When the use clicks the menu button, a sidebar appears and shows the subscribe button and all items defined in the main config file

:information_source: If your added a metadata like menu="main" in a content file metadata, it will also be displayed in the main menu

Example of a menu definition in main config file.

[[menu.main]]
  name = "My Blog"
  weight = -120
  identifier = "blog"
  url = "/"

[[menu.main]]
  name = "About me"
  weight = -110
  identifier = "about"
  url = "/about"

Metadata on each content file, example

+++
author = ""
date = "2014-07-11T10:54:24+02:00"
draft = false
title = "dotScale 2014 as a sketch"
slug = "dotscale-2014-as-a-sketch"
tags = ["event","dotScale","sketchnote"]
image = "images/2014/Jul/titledotscale.png"
comments = true     # set false to hide Disqus comments
share = true        # set false to share buttons
menu = ""           # set "main" to add this content to the main menu
+++

Contents here

Create new content based with default metadata from this theme

You can easyly create a new content with all metadatas used by this theme, using this command

hugo new -t casper post/my-post.md

Contact me

:beetle: open an issue in github

:bird: https://twitter.com/vjeantet

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