Blist is a clean and fast blog theme for your Hugo site.
Features:
- Responsive content / Mobile-optimized
- Blog pagination
- Customizable Text Search
- Table of contents
- Social links
- Code highlighting
- Color customization
- Dark mode
- Fast performance
- SEO optimized
- i18n support
- Support comments systems
- Disqus (hugo native)
- giscus
- utterances
➡️ DEMO
Minimum Hugo Version: 0.82.1
Run from the root of your Hugo site:
git clone https://github.com/apvarun/blist-hugo-theme.git themes/blist
Alternatively, you can include this repository as a git submodule. This makes it easier to update this theme if you have your Hugo site in git as well:
git submodule add https://github.com/apvarun/blist-hugo-theme.git themes/blist
Blist theme ships with an fully configured example site. For a quick preview:
Copy the package.json
file from themes/blist
folder to your hugo website root folder, and run npm install
.
cd themes/blist/exampleSite/
hugo serve --themesDir ../..
Then visit http:https://localhost:1313/
in your browser to view the example site.
- Copy
package.json
andpackage-lock.json
to the root folder of your website - Run
npm install
to install required packages for theme - Run
npm i -g postcss-cli
to use PostCSS with Hugo build - Set
theme = 'blist'
in config.toml - Run
npm start
to start your local server
Make sure to commit the above changes to your repository.
When deploying to services like Netlify or Vercel, use the following command for building your site:
npm i && HUGO_ENVIRONMENT=production hugo --gc
The parameter HUGO_ENVIRONMENT=production
enables the execution of css purging.
The following explains how to add content to your Hugo site. You can find sample content in the exampleSite/
folder.
.
├── ...
├── blog # Blog Section
│ ├── post1 # Post 1
│ ├── post2 # Post 2
│ └── _index
└── ...
From exampleSite/
, copy config.toml
to the root folder of your Hugo site and change the fields as you like. Helpful comments are provided.
Menu in Blist theme is pre-set to have all section names. You can include custom links in header using the menu.main
option config.toml.
logo
param in the site config will allow to use an image as the logo instead of the website name. It is localizable and so can have different logo for different languages
[params.darkModeToggle]
enables the dark mode toggle in header. The preference is then saved so that the mode is automatically chosen for return visits.
Use [params.ascentColor]
to change the default pink
color to any supported color from the list of default colors from Tailwind CSS.
Some example values: bg-blue-200, bg-yellow-300
[params.enableSearch]
option is used to enable search option in the theme.
- Adds the search icon in header
- Generates the search index
- Uses fuse.js to enable searching through content
In order to search, you can either click on the search icon from header or press Ctrl/Cmd + /
key combination.
Note:
Make sure to enable JSON in outputs array.
[outputs]
home = ["HTML", "RSS", "JSON"]
Enable mathematical options: set math: true
in your markdown frontmatter
Set googleAnalytics
in config.toml
to activate Hugo's internal Google Analytics template.
If you have a question, please open an issue for help and to help those who come after you. The more information you can provide, the better!
Contributions, issues, and feature requests are welcome! For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.
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