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TopHat

A simple theme for Hugo just for blogging

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TopHat

Top Hat

Top Hat it’s a simple Hugo theme just for blogging.

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My own blog nohat.dev uses this theme

Features

It supports:

  • syntax hightlight
  • featured posts
  • navigation
  • tags
  • words count and time reading

How to install

You can use the theme in by two flavors, downloading files from repository or using git submodule

Download files from repository

Download .zip file from this link and extract the content to themes/tophat folder

Then open your hugo.toml file and add the following tag:

theme = "tophat"

Use git submodule

Run these commands to create a Hugo site with the tophat theme

hugo new site my-blog
cd my-blog
git init
git submodule add https://github.com/sergiobarriel/tophat-theme.git themes/tophat
echo "theme = 'tophat'" >> hugo.toml
hugo server

If you want to update the theme with the latest changes just run the command

git submodule update --remote

How to configure the theme

Options

You should configure minimal options on your hugo.toml file:

theme = "TopHat"
title = "Your blog name"
baseURL = "https://example.com/"
languageCode = "en-us"
paginate = 5

The default pagination is 10 items, but you can set a different number.

Parameters 

[params]
    
  subtitle = "Your blog subtitle"
  description = "Your blog description"
  author = "Sergio Barriel"

  main = "post"
  featured = true
  
  # You can customize the visibility of some elements like date, reading time, words counter and tags inside article by setting true or false
  show_date_on_article = true
  show_reading_time_on_article = true
  show_words_count_on_article = true
  show_tags_on_article = true  

[menu]

  [[menu.main]]
    identifier = "about"
    name = "About"
    url = "/pages/about/"

  [[menu.main]]
    identifier = "contact"
    name = "Contact"
    url = "/pages/contact/"    
  
  [[menu.social]]
    identifier = "twitter"
    name = "Twitter"
    url = "https://twitter.com/sergiobarriel" 

  [[menu.social]]
    identifier = "github"
    name = "Github"
    url = "https://github.com/sergiobarriel"

Google Analytics

If you want to track telemetry from Google Analytics just add the googleAnalytics tag on your hugo.toml file

googleAnalytics = "G-XXXXXXXXXX"

Syntax highlight

You can customize the highlight configuration by overriding options on hugo.toml file according to these params

[markup]
  [markup.highlight]
    anchorLineNos = false
    codeFences = true
    guessSyntax = false
    hl_Lines = ''
    hl_inline = false
    lineAnchors = ''
    lineNoStart = 1
    lineNos = false
    lineNumbersInTable = true
    noClasses = true
    noHl = false
    style = 'dracula'
    tabWidth = 4

See the Style Gallery for a full overview of available styles and how they may appear.

Customize styles

There are some scss files inside assets/scss folder, so you can customize the styles as you wish and then transpile by using sass command

sass styles.scss ../css/styles.css

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