Hugo Bootstrap Theme

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An extreme fast, responsive and feature-rich blog theme for Hugo.

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• https://hbs.razonyang.com/ - Deploy on Netlify.

There is also a list of websites that use this theme.

Features

• Fast: Google PageSpeed Insights's score 90-100.
• Built on top of Bootstrap 5.
• Responsive.
• Various Palettes: blue, blue-gray, brown, cyan, green, indigo, orange, pink, purple, red, teal, yellow.
• Highly Configurable.
• Dark Mode Switcher.
• Font Size Switcher.
• Multilingual(I18N).
• Search.
• Breadcrumb.
• Archive.
• Aligning images by adding URL fragments, such as #center, #floatleft and #floatright represents align center, float left and float right respectively.
• Syntax Highlighting
• Resources Lazy Loading: image and iframe.
• Reward Widget: supports Alipay and Wechat.
• Table of Contents.
• Share Buttons: supports AddThis.
• Comments: supports Disqus and Utterances.
• Custom Assets: custom CSS and JS.
• Hooks: provides ability to add custom code in page, such as head, body, sidebar etc.
• Social Links.
• Various Shortcodes.
• Twitter Cards and Open Graph.
• Creative Commons License

Installation

Create a new site from scratch

$ hugo new site myblog
$ cd myblog
$ git init
$ git submodule add https://github.com/razonyang/hugo-theme-bootstrap themes/hugo-theme-bootstrap
$ cp -a themes/hugo-theme-bootstrap/exampleSite/* .
$ hugo server

If you're using Windows, use xcopy .\themes\hugo-theme-bootstrap\exampleSite /E instead.

Apply to the existing site

$ cd myblog
$ git submodule add https://github.com/razonyang/hugo-theme-bootstrap themes/hugo-theme-bootstrap
$ mkdir config
$ cp -a themes/hugo-theme-bootstrap/exampleSite/config/* ./config

In this case, you will need to copy some directories into the content, such as the archives and search directory.

Note

If you're making a fresh clone, you will be need to update your submodule

$ git clone <your-repo>
$ git submodule update --init --recursive

Or combine into one

$ git clone --recursive <your-repo>

Upgrade

$ cd themes/hugo-theme-bootstrap
$ git fetch
$ git checkout [version]
$ cd ../../
$ git add themes/hugo-theme-bootstrap
$ git commit -m 'Upgrade the theme'

• Replace the [version] with the latest version. The version can be listed by git tag -l | sort -rV.
• You can also checkout the master branch for getting the latest commit.

Getting Started

$ hugo new -c content/en posts/newpost.md

The command above create a new post written in English. Similarly, we can create a post written in Simplified Chinese:

$ hugo new -c content/zh-cn posts/newpost.md

Please remind that, the created posts are generally in draft state. You'll need the -D parameter to the command hugo server for previewing. When publishing posts, you need to change the draft to false, or delete draft directly.

Configuration

As the example site shown, the configuration are separated into multiple files, this is much clearer than a single configuration file, especially in a multilingual website.

Name	Type	Default	Description
title	String	-	Site title.
baseURL	String	-	Site base URL.
copyright	String	-	Site copyright. The {year} placeholder will be replaced with this year.
defaultContentLanguage	String	en
defaultContentLanguageInSubdir	Boolean	false
paginate	Integer	10
paginatePath	String	page
enableRobotsTXT	Boolean	true
disqusShortname	String	-	Disqus shortname.
googleAnalytics	String	-	Google Analytics.
social	Object	-	Social Links.
author	Object	-	Profile shown in sidebar.
author.name	String	-	Name
author.avatar	String	images/profile.webp	Avatar
author.bio	String	-	Bio
author.company	String	-	Company
author.location	String	-	Location
author.about	String	-	The external about page. The internal about page will be used if not set.
author.params	Object	-
author.params.layout	String	-	Optional value: compact

Parameters

Global Parameters

Name	Type	Default	Description
Page
mainSections	Array	["posts"]	Main sections
titleCase	Boolean	false	Capitalized title or not
titleSeparator	String	-	Title separator
comment	Boolean	true	Whether to enable comments
toc	Boolean	true	Whether to enable TOC
tocWordCount	Integer	280	TOC is displayed only if the post's word count is greater than this value.
breadcrumb	Boolean	true	Whether to enable breadcrumb
dateFormat	String	Jan 2, 2006	Date format. Checkout the Hugo Date and Time Templating Reference for details.
poweredBy	Boolean	true	Whether to show powered by.
readingTime	Boolean	true	Whether to display the reading time.
postDate	Boolean	true	Whether to display the post date in the post meta section.
math	Boolean	false	Whether to enable math globally.
logo	String	images/logo.webp	Logo image.
brand	String	-	Brand text.
menusPosition	String	right	Menus position: right, left, center.
description	String	-	Site description.
keywords	String	-	Site keywords.
color	String	-	Color mode, light, dark or dynamic. Default to dynamic.
palette	String	-	Default palette. This will take effect after clearing the Cookie.
palettes	Array	ALL	Available palettes. You can disable it by setting it to empty [].
featuredPostCount	Integer/Boolean	5	The number of featured posts shown in sidebar. Turn off by setting it to false.
recentPostCount	Integer/Boolean	5	The number of recent posts shown in sidebar. Turn off by setting it to false.
relatedPostCount	Integer/Boolean	5	The number of related posts. Turn off by setting it to false.
categoryCount	Integer/Boolean	10	The number of categories shown in sidebar. Turn off by setting it to false.
tagCount	Integer/Boolean	10	The number of tags shown in sidebar. Turn off by setting it to false.
seriesCount	Integer	10	The number of series shown in sidebar.
taxonomyPostCount	Integer	3	The number of posts of taxonomy. Turn off by setting it to false.
fullWidth	Boolean	false	Full width.
fixedHeader	Boolean	true	Turn on/off fixed header.
reward	Object	-	Reward
reward.alipay	String	-	Alipay QR Code Image.
reward.wechat	String	-	Wechat QR Code Image.
share	Object	-	Share buttons
share.addThis	String	-	AddThis's pubid.
fontSize	Object	Font Sizes	Comment or remove this parameter to disable font size switcher.
fontSize.small	String	.9rem	Small font size.
fontSize.extraSmall	String	.8rem	Extra small font size.
fontSize.large	String	1.1rem	Large font size.
fontSize.extraLarge	String	1.2rem	Extra large font size.
Archive
archive	Object	-	Archive configuration.
archive.paginate	Integer	100	Archive pagination.
archive.dateFormat	Integer	Jan 2	Archive date format.
Search
search	Object	-	Search configuration.
search.paginate	Integer	10	Pagination
search.resultContentWordCount	Integer	240	The maximum word count of result content for displaying.
search.fuse	Object	-	Fuse.js options.
search.fuse.ignoreLocation	Boolean	true
search.fuse.location	Integer	-
search.fuse.isCaseSensitive	Boolean	-
search.fuse.minMatchCharLength	Integer	-
search.fuse.threshold	Double	-
search.fuse.distance	Integer	-
search.fuse.useExtendedSearch	Boolean	-
Webmaster Site Verification
siteVerification	Object	-
siteVerification.google	String	-	Google
siteVerification.bing	String	-	Bing
siteVerification.baidu	String	-	Baidu
siteVerification.baiduUnion	String	-	Baidu Union
siteVerification.so	String	-	Qihoo 360
siteVerification.sogou	String	-	Sogou
siteVerification.shenma	String	-	Shenma
Analytics
analytics	Object	-	Analytics configuration.
analytics.baidu	String	-	Baidu Analytics.
Others
googleAdsense	String	-	Google Adsense.
customCSS	Array	-	Custom CSS. It is mainly used to import external CSS. See Custom Assets.
customJS	Array	-	Custom JS. It is mainly used to import external JS. See Custom Assets.
utterances	Object	-	Utterances configuration.
utterances.repo	String	-	Github repository.
utterances.issueTerm	String	pathname	pathname, url, title, og:title.
utterances.label	String	-
utterances.theme	String	-	By default, light and dark mode correspond to github-light and github-dark, respectively. github-light, github-dark, preferred-color-scheme, github-dark-orange, icy-dark, dark-blue, photon-dark.
Creative Commons License
creativeCommons	Object	-
creativeCommons.by	Boolean	true	Credit must be given to you, the creator.
creativeCommons.nc	Boolean	true	Only noncommercial use of your work is permitted.
creativeCommons.nd	Boolean	true	No derivatives or adaptations of your work are permitted.
creativeCommons.sa	Boolean	true	Adaptations must be shared under the same terms.
Code Block
codeBlock	Object	-
codeBlock.maxLines	Integer	7
codeBlock.lineNos	Boolean	true	true/false represents that show/hide the line numbers by default.
Post
post	Object	-
post.excerpt	String	Summary	Options: description
post.excerptMaxLength	Integer	320
Katex
katex	Object	-	Katex options, see also https://katex.org/docs/autorender.html and https://katex.org/docs/options.html

Except the Google webmaster tool, the other webmaster tools cannot work with hugo --minify, because they cannot recognize the minified meta tag.

Page Parameters

Name	Type	Default	Description
Page
description	String	-	Page description.
keywords	Array	-	Page keywords.
comment	Boolean	true	Whether to enable comments. It won't work if comment has been disabled globally.
toc	Boolean	true	Whether to enable TOC. It won't work if toc has been disabled globally.
math	Boolean	false	Whether to enable math.
reward	Boolean	true	Whether to enable reward.
breadcrumb	Boolean	true	Whether to enable breadcrumb.
readingTime	Boolean	true	Whether to display the reading time.
postDate	Boolean	true	Whether to display the post date in the post meta section.
Creative Commons License
creativeCommons	Object	-
creativeCommons.by	Boolean	true	Credit must be given to you, the creator.
creativeCommons.nc	Boolean	true	Only noncommercial use of your work is permitted.
creativeCommons.nd	Boolean	true	No derivatives or adaptations of your work are permitted.
creativeCommons.sa	Boolean	true	Adaptations must be shared under the same terms.

Syntax Highlighting

This theme requires the following parameters to be set to specific values.

• lineNos: true
• lineNumbersInTable: false
• noClasses: false

See also Configure Highlight.

Style

$ hugo gen chromastyles --style=solarized-dark > assets/css/highlight.css

See also All Supported Styles.

Comments

Disqus

disqusShortname = "yourdiscussshortname"

disqusShortname is a site's configuration, not a parameter. Place it under the params won't work.

Checkout the Disqus website for details.

Utterances

Utterances is a lightweight comments widget built on GitHub issues.

[utterances]
  repo = "user/repo"
  #issueTerm = "pathname" # pathname, url, title, og:title.
  #label = "comment" # Optional.
  #theme = ""

Unlike Disqus, Utterances is a parameter. You should put it under the params.

Custom Comments

$ mkdir -p layouts/partials/post/comments
$ echo "MY COMMENTS WIDGET" > layouts/partials/post/comments/custom.html

You will be need to remove the other comments widget's configurations.

Custom Assets

There are two ways to customize the internal and external assets.

Internal Assets

This is the best way to customize the theme's CSS and JS. Just create the files assets/css/custom.css and assets/js/custom.js. These files will be bundled into one for reducing HTTP requests.

External Assets

Any external CSS and JS resources can be imported by the parameters customCSS and customJS.

Both of customCSS and customJS can also import the internal assets. Just put the files into the static folder.

Hooks

Hooks are used for adding code on pages.

Hook	Description
head-end	Before the <head> end
body-end	Before the <body> end
main-begin	Above of the <main>
main-end	Follow the <main>
list-begin	Above of the posts list
list-end	Follow the posts list
sidebar-begin	At very top of the sidebar
sidebar-end	Before the sidebar end
content-begin	Above of the post content
content-end	Follow the post content
comments-begin	Above of the comments
comments-end	Follow the comments
footer-begin	At very top of the footer
footer-end	Before the footer end

For using a hook, you need to create an HTML file named with the hook name in the directory layouts/partials/hooks.

For example:

$ echo "SIDEBAR BEGIN" > layouts/partials/hooks/sidebar-begin.html

Shortcodes

Shortcode	Description	Usage
alert	Alter	{{< alert "message" [type] >}}, [type] can be one of info, success, warning and danger
jsfiddle	JSFiddle	{{< jsfiddle "user/id" >}}
codepen	CodePen	{{< codepen "id" >}}
jsrun	JSRUN	{{< jsrun "id" >}}
bilibili	Bilibili Video Player	{{< bilibili "video ID" >}}
youku	Youku Video Player	{{< youku "video ID" >}}
iqiyi	iQiyi Video Player	{{< iqiyi "vid" "tvid" >}}
tencentvideo	Tencent Video Player	{{< tencentvideo "video ID" >}}
neteasemusic	Netease Music player	{{< neteasemusic "song ID" >}}

Social Links

The social is a set of key value pairs of social links that mapping from platform to user identifier.

Enable social links by creating a file config/_default/social.toml with the following content:

email = "user@domain.tld"
github = "githubusername"
# ...

Platform	User Identifier
email	Email Address
facebook	Facebook Username
facebookgroup	Facebook Group Name
github	GitHub Username
gitlab	GitLab Username
instagram	Instagram Username
linkedin	LinkedIn Username
quora	Quora Username
stackoverflow	Stack Overflow User ID
tumblr	Tumblr Username
twitter	Twitter Username
weibo	Weibo Username
zhihu	Zhihu Username
reddit	Reddit Username
telegram	Telegram Username
qq	QQ Number
dockerhub	Docker Hub Username
bitbucket	Bitbucket Workspace ID
medium	Medium Username or custom domain(e.g. https://custom.domain.tld)
lastfm	Last.fm Username
bibibili	BiliBili User ID
youtube	Youtube Channel ID
discord	Discord Invite Code
discourse	Forum URL
tiktok	TikTok Username

Contribute

Any contributions are welcome.

• ⭐ if you are interested in this theme.
• File an issue
  • Ask questions.
  • Report bugs.
  • Request features.
• Create a PR:
  • Fix issues and bugs.
  • Add new features.
  • Improve documentations.

Develop

This theme relies on npm and webpack for development. The source of js and scss are placed in src directory.

Install dependencies

$ npm install

Rebuild assets

$ npm run build

npm run watch rebuild assets on change.

Preview

$ cd exampleSite
$ hugo server --themesDir=../../

Formating Code

$ npm run lint

FAQ

How to remove the unwanted language?

• Delete the relative language items from languages.toml.
• Delete the configuration files those filenames contains language code, such as config.zh-cn.toml, params.zh-cn.toml.
• Change the value of defaultContentLanguage and defaultContentLanguageInSubdir of config.toml.
• Delete the relative posts or directories in content, such as rm -r content/zh-cn.