# Hello Friend  This theme was made to help you present your ideas easier. We all know how hard is to start something on the web, especially these days. You need to prepare a bunch of stuff, configure them and when that’s done — create the content. This theme is pretty basic and covers all of the essentials. All you have to do is start typing! ### DEMO - https://hugo-hello-friend.now.sh/ --- - [Features](#features) - [Built-in shortcodes](#built-in-shortcodes) - [Code highlighting](#code-highlighting) - [How to start](#how-to-start) - [How to configure](#how-to-configure) - [How to add a cover image to your posts](#how-to-add-a-cover-image-to-your-posts) - [Add-ons](#add-ons) - [How to run your site](#how-to-run-your-site) - [How to edit the theme](#how-to-edit-the-theme) - [How to contribute](#how-to-contribute) - [Hello Friend theme user?](#hello-friend-theme-user) - [Sponsoring](#sponsoring) - [Licence](#licence) ## Features - **dark/light mode**, depending on your preferences (dark is default, but you can change it) - great reading experience thanks to [**Inter font**](https://rsms.me/inter/), made by [Rasmus Andersson](https://rsms.me/about/) - nice code highlighting thanks to [**PrismJS**](https://prismjs.com) - fully responsive #### Built-in shortcodes - **`image`** (prop required: **`src`**; props optional: **`alt`**, **`position`** (**left** is default | center | right), **`style`**) - eg: `{{< image src="/img/hello.png" alt="Hello Friend" position="center" style="border-radius: 8px;" >}}` - **`figure`** (same as `image`, plus few optional props: **`caption`**, **`captionPosition`** (left | **center** is default | right), **`captionStyle`** - eg: `{{< figure src="/img/hello.png" alt="Hello Friend" position="center" style="border-radius: 8px;" caption="Hello Friend!" captionPosition="right" captionStyle="color: red;" >}}` - **`imgproc`** Hugo shortcode for image processing. More info at [https://gohugo.io/content-management/image-processing/](https://gohugo.io/content-management/image-processing/) #### Code highlighting By default the theme is using PrismJS to color your code syntax. All you need to do is to wrap you code like this:
```html // your code here ```**Supported languages**: bash/shell, css, clike, javascript, apacheconf, actionscript, applescript, c, csharp, cpp, coffeescript, ruby, csp, css-extras, diff, django, docker, elixir, elm, markup-templating, erlang, fsharp, flow, git, go, graphql, less, handlebars, haskell, http, java, json, kotlin, latex, markdown, makefile, objectivec, ocaml, perl, php, php-extras, r, sql, processing, scss, python, jsx, typescript, toml, reason, textile, rust, sass, stylus, scheme, pug, swift, yaml, haml, twig, tsx, vim, visual-basic, wasm. ## How to start You can download the theme manually by going to [https://github.com/panr/hugo-theme-hello-friend.git](https://github.com/panr/hugo-theme-hello-friend.git) and pasting it to `themes/hello-friend` in your root directory. You can also clone it directly to your Hugo folder: ``` $ git clone https://github.com/panr/hugo-theme-hello-friend.git themes/hello-friend ``` If you don't want to make any radical changes, it's the best option, because you can get new updates when they are available. To do so, include it as a git submodule: ``` $ git submodule add https://github.com/panr/hugo-theme-hello-friend.git themes/hello-friend ``` ## How to configure The theme doesn't require any advanced configuration. Just copy: ``` baseurl = "/" languageCode = "en-us" theme = "hello-friend" paginate = 5 [params] # dir name of your blog content (default is `content/posts`) contentTypeName = "posts" # "light" or "dark" defaultTheme = "dark" # if you set this to 0, only submenu trigger will be visible showMenuItems = 2 # Show reading time in minutes for posts showReadingTime = false [languages] [languages.en] title = "Hello Friend" subtitle = "A simple theme for Hugo" keywords = "" copyright = "" menuMore = "Show more" writtenBy = "Written by" readMore = "Read more" readOtherPosts = "Read other posts" newerPosts = "Newer posts" olderPosts = "Older posts" minuteReadingTime = "min read" dateFormatSingle = "2006-01-02" dateFormatList = "2006-01-02" [languages.en.params.logo] logoText = "hello friend" logoHomeLink = "/" # or # # path = "/img/your-example-logo.svg" # alt = "Your example logo alt text" [languages.en.menu] [[languages.en.menu.main]] identifier = "about" name = "About" url = "/about" [[languages.en.menu.main]] identifier = "showcase" name = "Showcase" url = "/showcase" ``` to `config.toml` file in your Hugo root directory and change params fields. In case you need, here's [a YAML version](https://gist.github.com/panr/8f9b363e358aaa33f6d353c77feee959). **NOTE:** Please keep in mind that currently main menu doesn't support nesting. ## How to add a cover image to your posts Adding a cover image to your post is simple and there are two options when you edit your `index.md` file in `content/posts/blog-entry-xy/index.md`: * Use `cover = "/path/to/absolute/img.jpg"` to link an absolute image * Resulting in `https://www.yourpage.com/path/to/absolute/img.jpg` * Use `cover = "img.jpg"` and `useRelativeCover = true` to link the image relative to the blog post folder * Resulting in `https://www.yourpage.com/posts/blog-entry-xy/img.jpg` ## Add-ons - **Archive** — Theme has built-in `archive` page for main content (see `contentTypeName` variable in config). If you need archive on your blog just copy https://github.com/panr/hugo-theme-hello-friend/blob/master/exampleSite/content/archive.md to your `content` dir. If you need multilangual archives, duplicate `content/archive.md` and add `.Lang` variable, eg: `content/archive.pl.md` (remember to change `url` in duplicated file). - **Comments** — for adding comments to your blog posts please take a look at `layouts/partials/comments.html` https://github.com/panr/hugo-theme-terminal/blob/master/layouts/partials/comments.html. - **Prepended ``** — if you need to add something inside `` element, and before any of the theme's `