README.md

Archie - Hugo theme

Archie is a minimal and clean theme for hugo with a markdown-ish UI.

Forked from Ezhil Theme

Demo

Check the Demo hosted on GitHub Pages 😄 . You can find the source code to that in the site branch of this repository

Feature

• Google Analytics Script
• Callouts
• Tags
• Auto Dark Mode(based on system theme)
• Dark/Light Mode toggle
• tl:dr; frontamatter
• Cache busting for CSS files
• Disqus Comments

Installation

In your Hugo website directory, create a new folder named theme and clone the repo

$ mkdir themes
$ cd themes
$ git clone https://github.com/athul/archie.git

Edit the config.toml file with theme="archie" For more information read the official setup guide of Hugo.

If you encounter any issues with Google Analytics, update Hugo to v0.125.0 or later and make sure your using the latest version of the theme.

Writing Posts

Create a new .md file in the content/posts folder

---
title: Title of the post
description:
date:
tldr: (optional)
draft: true/false (optional)
tags: [tag names] (optional)
---

Credits

Forked from Ezhil Theme and Licensed under MIT License Inspired by design of blog.jse.li

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Config Options

Custom CSS

Custom CSS files can be included though the customcss config parameter.

Note: CSS files should be placed under the assets directory e.g. assets/css/first.css.

[params]
	customcss = ["css/first.css", "css/second.css"]

Config of the Demo Site

baseURL = "https://athul.github.io/archie/"
languageCode = "en-us"
title = "Archie"
theme="archie"
copyright = "© Athul"
# Code Highlight
pygmentsstyle = "monokai"
pygmentscodefences = true
pygmentscodefencesguesssyntax = true

disqusShortname = "yourDisqusShortname"

paginate=3 # articles per page

[params]
	mode="auto" # color-mode → light,dark,toggle or auto
	useCDN=false # don't use CDNs for fonts and icons, instead serve them locally.
	subtitle = "Minimal and Clean [blog theme for Hugo](https://github.com/athul/archie)"
	mathjax = true # enable MathJax support
	katex = true # enable KaTeX support

# Social Tags

[[params.social]]
name = "GitHub"
icon = "github"
url = "https://github.com/athul/archie"

[[params.social]]
name = "Twitter"
icon = "twitter"
url = "https://twitter.com/athulcajay/"

[[params.social]]
name = "GitLab"
icon = "gitlab"
url = "https://gitlab.com/athul/"

# Main menu Items

[[menu.main]]
name = "Home"
url = "/"
weight = 1

[[menu.main]]
name = "All posts"
url = "/posts"
weight = 2

[[menu.main]]
name = "About"
url = "/about"
weight = 3

[[menu.main]]
name = "Tags"
url = "/tags"
weight = 4

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