Hugo Novela

A port of Narative's Gatsby theme Novela

This theme requires Hugo > 0.55.0 and has been tested with Hugo v0.62.2

Customization

Logo

Override /themes/novela/layouts/partials/icons/ui/logo.html with your own file at /layouts/partials/icons/ui/logo.html; include your logo in SVG format for desktop and mobile formats.

Novela supports light and dark mode. To have your logo respond in kind, add class="change-fill" to the svg path(s).

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 the following file to your content directory and Front Matter example.

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

Assigning authors to posts.

Simply add the name of the author to the "authors" field:

authors:
  - Dennis Brotzky
  - Thiago Costa

Newsletter CTA

This theme includes a shortcode for a newsletter callout form that you can add to any page. It uses formspree.io as proxy to send the actual email. Each month, visitors can send you up to one thousand emails without incurring extra charges. Visit the Formspree site to get get going add your Formspree email to your shortcode like this:

{{< subscribe email="your@email.com" >}}