hugo-theme-refresh

Refresh is a simple, light, low-code theme designed for blogs running on Hugo.

Installation

You'll need to have installed Hugo and created a new site before you can install the theme.

To install Hugo, follow the official installation guide.

Refresh has only been tested on Hugo v0.75.1. The theme may fail to compile on lower versions.

Create a new Hugo site

Use the following command to create a new Hugo site:

hugo new site mysite

Install the Refresh theme

Navigate to your site's directory.

cd mysite

Use the following command to clone this repository into your Hugo themes directory:

git clone https://github.com/stuartmccoll/hugo-theme-refresh.git

Run Hugo

After an initial install of the theme, generate your Hugo site using this command:

hugo

After this, you can use the following command for local development:

hugo server

Your site will be running locally at localhost:1313.

Configuration

There are a number of configuration settings which should be copied from example.config.toml into your local config.toml.

The default values in the following should be replaced:

licenseType = "CC BY 4.0"
licenseLink = "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"
issuesLink = "https://github.com/stuartmccoll/hugo-theme-refresh/issues/new"
mastodonUsername = "@stuartmccoll@hachyderm.io"

License

See LICENSE.