Hugo documentation theme as simple as plain book
- Clean simple design
- Mobile friendly
- Customizable
- Designed to not interfere with other layouts
- Zero initial configuration
- Hugo 0.43 or higher
- Hugo extended version, read more here
Navigate to your hugo website root and run:
git submodule add https://github.com/alex-shpak/hugo-book themes/book
Then run hugo (or set theme: book in configuration file)
hugo server --theme book
By default theme will render pages from content/docs section as menu in a tree structure.
You can set title and weight in front matter of pages to adjust order and titles in menu.
You can also use leaf bundle and content of it's index.md as
menu.
Given you have this file structure
├── content
│ ├── docs
│ │ ├── page-one.md
│ │ └── page-two.md
│ └── posts
│ ├── post-one.md
│ └── post-two.md
Create file content/docs/menu/index.md with content
---
headless: true
---
- [Book Example](/docs/)
- [Page One](/docs/page-one)
- [Page Two](/docs/page-two)
- [Blog](/posts)And Enable it by settings BookMenuBundle: /docs/menu in Site configuration
Simple blog supported for section posts
There are few configuration options you can add to your config.yml|json|toml file
# (Optional) Set this to true if you use captial letters in file names
disablePathToLower: true
# (Optional) Set this to true to enable 'Last Modified by' date and git author
# information on 'doc' type pages.
enableGitInfo: true
params:
# (Optional, default true) Show or hide table of contents globally
# You can also specify this parameter per page in front matter
BookShowToC: true
# (Optional, default none) Set leaf bundle to render as side menu
# When not specified file structure and weights will be used
BookMenuBundle: /docs/menu
# (Optional, default docs) Specify section of content to render as menu
# You can also set value to "*" to render all sections to menu
BookSection: docs
# Set source repository location.
# Used for 'Last Modified' and 'Edit this page' links.
BookRepo: https://github.com/alex-shpak/hugo-book
# Enable "Edit this page" links for 'doc' page type.
# Disabled by default. Uncomment to enable. Requires 'BookRepo' param.
# Path must point to 'content' directory of repo.
BookEditPath: edit/master/exampleSite/contentYou can specify additional params per page in front matter
---
# Set type to 'docs' if you want to render page outside of configured section or if you render section other than 'docs'
type: docs
# Set page weight to re-arrange items in file-tree menu (if BookMenuBundle not set)
weight: 10
# (Optional) Set to mark page as flat section in file-tree menu (if BookMenuBundle not set)
bookFlatSection: true
# (Optional) Set to hide table of contents, overrides global value
bookShowToC: false
---There are few empty partials you can override in layouts/partials/
| Partial | Placement |
|---|---|
layouts/partials/docs/inject/head.html |
Before closing <head> tag |
layouts/partials/docs/inject/body.html |
Before closing <body> tag |
layouts/partials/docs/inject/menu-before.html |
At the beginning of <nav> menu block |
layouts/partials/docs/inject/menu-after.html |
At the end of <nav> menu block |
Contributions are welcome and I will review and consider pull requests.
Primary goals are:
- Keep it simple
- Keep minimal (or zero) default configuration
- Avoid interference with user-defined layouts
Feel free to open issue if you missing some configuration or customization option.