Hugo Winston Theme

Hugo Winston is a bold minimal blogging theme.

Live Demo | Zerostatic Themes

Theme features

• Posts (Markdown)
• Basic Page (Markdown)
• SCSS (Hugo Pipelines)
• Responsive design
• 100/100 Google Lighthouse speed score
• 100/100 Google Lighthouse SEO score
• 100/100 Google Lighthouse accessibility score
• Google analytics configured in config.toml
• Configure GID using env variable HUGO_GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_ID, compatible with Netlify.
• Title, meta description and meta tags automatically generated for every page
• OG Meta data for Facebook and Twitter
• Semantic HTML document structure

Installation

Install Hugo

To use this theme you will need to have Hugo installed. If you don't already have Hugo installed please follow the official installation guide

Check Hugo version (Hugo 0.51+ Extended is required)

This theme uses Hugo Pipes to compile SCSS and minify assets. Please make sure you have the Hugo Extended version installed. If you are not using the extended version this theme will not not compile.

To check your version of Hugo, run:

hugo version

This will output the currently installed version of Hugo. Make sure you see /extended after the version number, for example Hugo Static Site Generator v0.51/extended darwin/amd64 BuildDate: unknown You do not need to use version v0.51 specifically, you can use any version of Hugo above 0.51. It just needs to have the /extended part

Create a new Hugo site

hugo new site mynewsite

This will create a fresh Hugo site in the folder mynewsite.

Install theme with Git

Clone this repo into the themes folder

cd mynewsite
git clone https://github.com/zerostaticthemes/hugo-winston-theme.git themes/hugo-winston-theme

Copy example content

Copy the entire contents of the mynewsite/themes/hugo-winston-theme/exampleSite/ folder to root folder of your Hugo site, ie mynewsite/

To copy the files using terminal, make sure you are still in the projects root, ie the mynewsite folder.

cp -a themes/hugo-winston-theme/exampleSite/. .

Update config.toml

After you copy the config.toml into the root folder of your Hugo site you will need to update the baseURL, themesDir and theme values in mynewsite/config.toml

baseURL = "/"
themesDir = "themes"
theme = "hugo-winston-theme"

Run Hugo

After installing the theme for the first time, generate the Hugo site.

You run this command from the root folder of your Hugo site ie mynewsite/

hugo

For local development run Hugo's built-in local server.

hugo server

Now enter localhost:1313 in the address bar of your browser.

Configuration

Config options

// config.toml
[params]
  google_analytics_id = ""
  twitter_handle = "@zerostaticio"
  showAuthorOnHomepage = true
  showAuthorOnPosts = false
  showPostsOnHomepage = false
  addFrame = true
  addDot = true

Google Analytics

Add you google analytics ID to the config.toml

// config.toml
[params]
  google_analytics_id="UA-132398315-1"

Deploying to Netlify

This theme includes a netlify.toml which is configured to deploy to Netlify from the exampleSite folder. See this discussion on how to deploy your site on Netlify from the exampleSite folder - https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/deploy-your-theme-to-netlify/15508

Most likely if you are deploying to Netlify and created a new Hugo site or added this theme to an existing Hugo site then you are not deploying from the exampleSite directory and you can delete the netlify.toml file.

License

If you fork or copy this theme the LICENSE file and the copyright notice on line 3 (where I am listed as the author) must not be changed. You cannot just replace the copyright line with your own name. Attribution in your README.md or on your site is also welcome but not required.