Basic Configuration

Here is the default configuration and basic parameters for your website. You can change those as per your requirements.

Default configuration

In this project folder, you will find a file called config.toml. Open this file in any text editor or IDE.

1. baseURL field for your website URL / domain. Add your site URL here. Remember, you need to add a trailing slash at the end of the URL.
2. languageCode defines your global site language. For more information, see Official Hugo Docs.
3. title is for the main title of your website.
4. theme sets up the used theme. If your theme is located in my-project/themes/theme-name folder, then the value for this parameter is theme-name.
5. summaryLength decides how many words are in excerpts of your posts when they are displayed as a preview. The default summaryLength is 70 words.
6. paginate set the number of posts shown on blog overview pages. If you have more than this amount of posts, pagination will be visible to navigate the next set of posts.
7. disqusShortname add your Disqus shortname to enable comments on the blog section. To install Disqus please follow this tutorial.
8. disableLanguages field is for disabling languages. If you don’t want to show one or multiple languages, then you can add the language name here. It will disable those languages from your site. For example, disableLanguages = ["fr"] will disable the french language from your site.

Default Parameters

In this project folder, you will find a file called config.toml. Open this file in any text editor or IDE.

1. favicon is for your website favicon. Place your favicon in the assets/images folder and put the path here.
2. logo is for your website logo. Place your logo in the assets/images folder and put the path here.
4. description is for your default meta description. It shows on your homepage and other pages that have no meta description on this page front-matter.
5. author is for the website author name. It is used in the meta author tag.
6. contact_info has some filed (like phone, email, and address) to show your contact information in the footer and contact page.
7. contact_form_action is for activate your contact form. As Hugo generates a static site, so you need to activate this form by a third-party service. You can use any of them Airform, formspree, or Formsubmit. Go to any of the sites that you preferred, and get your form action from there. Then, paste it here. If you use Airform, your form action will be like this: https://airform.io/your@email.com.
8. google_analitycs_id is for turn on google analytics on your site, give your won analytics ID here.
9. search is default active in this template, you can search with any content, tags or categories from here. if you don’t need search, you can false it.
10. navigation_button is for main navigation button, you can enable or disable it.
11. preloader is for your website preloader, which means it will show up until your website loads properly in the background. You can enable or disable preloader by setting the value of enable as true or false. If you want to put any image, logo, or animation as your preloader, give the file location in the preloader =, ex: preloader = images/preloader.gif. If you don’t want any logo or image, leave the preloader field empty. So it will show just a white screen when every component is loading.

12. map field is for google map , replace your won gmap API key with gmap_api. map_latitude and map_ongitude field is for your google map location. you can find this here http://maps.google.com

    map_marker is for your map pointer, you can set your won map pointer that you want to show, maintain the png image size with ( 46*58) px.

13. social is a loop item for your website’s social icons. You can add a loop item by following the existing loop. We are using the Thimify icon pack for this theme. You can choose more icons from here

5. gmapAPI field is for google map API key, replace your won gmap API key with it.
6. mapLatitude and mapLongitude field is for your google map location. you can find this here http://maps.google.com