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Kaslaanka

A minimalist theme for Hugo.

Live Demo at: m1cr0xf7.github.io/kaslaanka

this theme is a fork of Hugo-tanka theme.

this theme is a “do it yourself” theme, you probably want to change the css to make it your taste, use custom.css to do it.

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Description

  • minimalist theme
  • easily customizable
  • easy to setup
  • does not need any javascript (javascript is optional)
  • works as a blog or/and a personal website
  • gives you a space to be creative

new features

  • remove the bloat (utterances comments, progressivly, highlight.js)
  • scriptless by default.
  • removed bootstrap.
  • changed how the index, single pages and blog posts look.
  • blog list on the home page is limited, if the users want to see more they go to /blog/
  • listing projects on the home page.
  • brief about me on the home page.
  • support unlisted articles.
  • better favicons.
  • better tags
  • add categories
  • add multiple languages support
  • HUGE first letter paragraph (if you want)
  • Brief description under blog post title

Installation

Install hugo using the setup guide.

Create a new Hugo site

hugo new site .

add the theme to your Hugo site

git submodule add https://github.com/M1cR0xf7/kaslaanka.git themes/kaslaanka

use the theme by adding this line in your config file

theme = 'kaslaanka'

you should check out exampleSite/. don’t copy it fully, there are some workaround used in layouts/blog/ to deploy on github pages, please ignore it.

Customization

custom.css

add your custom css here /static/css/custom.css

/* <span class="first-letter">H</span>ello World! */
.first-letter {
	font-family: "Roboto Serif";
}

custom.js

add your custom javascript here /static/js/custom.js

// be creative
for(;;){alert("HAHAHAHAHAH")}

external scripts

you can add external scripts in /layouts/partials/scripts.html

<script src="..." ... ></script>

you can add as much <meta> and <link> as you like in /layouts/partials/meta.html

tags

tags:
  - hello
  - ok

this post will be listed at /tags/hello/ and /tags/ok/

categories

categories:
  - travel

this post will be listed at /categories/travel/.

config.yml

sitename: "Site Name!"
baseURL: "/"
languageCode: en-us
title: "Kaslaanka Theme"
author: John Doe

enableEmoji: true
hasCJKLanguage: false
# You can change code highlight theme
pygmentsstyle: "tango"
pygmentscodefences: true

# if you want to add html to your markdown
markup:
  goldmark:
    renderer:
      unsafe: true

# Links of the navbar
menu:
  primary:
    - name: Home
      url: /
      weight: 1
    - name: About
      url: /about
      weight: 2
    - name: Subscribe
      url: /index.xml
      weight: 3

# You can add languages!
# do not expect it to work out of the box
# https://gohugo.io/content-management/multilingual/
defaultContentLanguage: en
languages:
  en:
    LanguageName: English
    # contentDir: content/english
  ru:
    LanguageName: русский
    # contentDir: content/russian

params:
  sitename: "Kaslaanka Theme"
  # it will produce: copyrights (c) 2022 joe
  copyrights: John Doe
  # set default homepage list (what section to list pages from)
  # default: global
  # currently available options (global, blog)
  defaultList: global
  # list 3 items of every section
  # you can use a section specific list
  # to list n items of that section.
  # see ./layouts/partials/bloglist.html for example
  paginationLen: 3
  # path to the favicon directory
  # see ./layouts/_defaults/baseof.html line #30 to line #37
  # faviconpath: "/img/favicon"
  # projects will show in the index page
  myprojects:
    - name: "Totally Awesome Project"
      description: "Machine Learning Magic!!!"
      url: https://example.com
    - name: "Kaslaanka"
      description: "The best hugo theme ever!!!"
      url: https://github.com/M1cR0xf7/kaslaanka
  # link to more projects
  # show your github repositories as example
  # or create your own page.
  projectsURL: https://example.com

  # a brief about me
  brief_about: <center>Kaslaanka theme demo made with ❤️️</center>

# and don't forget
theme: kaslaanka

posts

you can make a post unlisted by adding the following

---

unlisted: true

---

add a brief description to a single blog page.

---

brief: "This is my demo brief!"

---

if you want to add an edit counter, see edit in the front matter. you increment it every time you edit the post. where 3 is the number of edits.

---

edits: 3

---

LICENSE

GPL-3.0 LICENSE.

Copyright © 2024 John Doe