Hugo Flex

A lightweight Hugo theme leveraging CSS Flexbox

Features

• Flexbox-based responsive layout
• Full posts in RSS feed
• Themed RSS feed
• No framework
• No javascript
• 100% speed score on PageSpeed Insight

Optional features:

• Show summaries on homepage
• Schema.org, Open Graph and Twitter Cards metadata
• Utterances comments widget
• Custom CSS and JS can be added site-wide, or dynamically with shortcodes
• Built-in shortcodes:
  • Netlify contact form
  • On-click Soundcloud player

Installation

From the website root:

git submodule add https://github.com/de-souza/hugo-flex.git themes/hugo-flex

The theme must be set in the website config:

echo 'theme: hugo-flex' >> config.yaml

Updating

From the website root:

git submodule update --remote --rebase

Example Site

The official hugoBasicExample repository may be used as an example site. For a complete starter template for using this theme with in-depth explanations, see hugo-flex-example.

Configuration

Configuration options may be copied and modified from the theme defaults:

params:
  color: teal           # Any color in CSS syntax
  width: 42rem          # Any length in CSS syntax
  footer: >-            # A hardcoded space is needed before each html element
    Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a  
    <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" rel="license">Creative
    Commons Attribution 4.0 International License</a>.
  rss: To subscribe to this RSS feed, copy its address and paste it into your
    favorite feed reader.
  summaries: false      # Set to true to show summaries of posts on homepage
  divider: \a0          # Set to false to remove divider below posts on homepage
  schema: false         # Set to true to add Schema.org metadata
  opengraph: false      # Set to true to add Open Graph metadata
  twittercards: false   # Set to true to add Twitter Cards metadata
  utterances:
    repo:               # Set to Utterances repo URL to add Utterances comments
    issueterm: pathname
    theme: github-light
  netlify:
    honeypot: false     # Set to true to add honeypot field in contact form
    recaptcha: false    # Set to true to add recaptcha challenge in contact form
  # css:                # Uncomment to add custom CSS from a list of files
  #   - css/foo.css
  #   - bar.css
  # js:                 # Uncomment to add custom JS from a list of files
  #   - js/foo.js
  #   - bar.js

menu:
  nav:
  - name: About
    url: about/
    weight: 1
  - name: Posts
    url: post/
    weight: 2
  - name: Tags
    url: tags/
    weight: 3
  - name: Categories
    url: categories/
    weight: 4
  - name: RSS
    url: index.xml
    weight: 5

Built-In Shortcodes

Netlify Contact Form

A contact form working with the built-in Netlify form handling service is inserted with the shortcode:

{{< contact >}}

A custom success page URL may be given as a parameter:

{{< contact "/success" >}}

On-Click Soundcloud Player

An on-click Soundcloud Player is inserted with the shortcode:

{{< soundcloud 123456789 >}}

The parameter is a track ID and can be extracted from the "embed" sharing menu on the track webpage.

Custom CSS and JS

Site-Wide

Custom CSS and JS can be added to all the pages on the website. To do so, the relevant filenames must be added to the website config file:

params:
  css:
    - css/foo.css
    - bar.css
  js:
    - js/foo.js
    - bar.js

The paths are relative to the assets directory.

Dynamically Embedded

To embed CSS and JS resources on specific pages of the website, they must be added to the .Scratch variable from a shortcode template. As a result, they will be loaded in pages where the shortcode is used. For instance, a shortcode template could contain:

{{ resources.Get "myscript.js" | fingerprint | .Page.Scratch.SetInMap "js" "myscript" }}

This would load script myscript.js on every page where the shortcode is used.

As an example, this is the template for the built-in Soundcloud shortcode:

{{ resources.Get "css/soundcloud.css" | minify | fingerprint | .Page.Scratch.SetInMap "css" "soundcloud" }}
{{ resources.Get "js/soundcloud.js" | minify | fingerprint  | .Page.Scratch.SetInMap "js" "soundcloud" }}
<div class="Soundcloud" data-id="{{ .Get 0 }}"></div>

License

This theme is licensed under the Apache License 2.0.