In this root folder you will find a file called config.toml
open this file in any text editor or IDE.
If your theme is not launched in your localhost, then check the theme
name is correct in config.toml file. Then run hugo server
command again.
Sitewide configuration
- At the very top you will see a
baseURL
field for your site URL. Add your sites URL here. theme
sets up the used theme. If your theme is located in/themes/themename
then the value for this parameter isthemename
.If you use theme components you can change this parameter to the following format:
themes = ["theme1", "theme2", "themename"]
Make sure, that your theme is the last item in this list. Hugo will load these themes and module from the left and files with identical names will be overwritten subsequently.
title
is for your site’s title.- The
summaryLength
decides how many words are in excerpts of your posts when they are displayed as preview. The defaultsummaryLength
is 70 words. DefaultContentLanguage
- This field is for your site default language, which will load first with your site load.disableLanguages
field is for disable languages, if you don’t want to show one or more then one you can add the language name here, it will disabled those languages from your site. exampledisableLanguages = ["fr"]
it will desabled french language from your site.disqusShortname
- add your disqus shortname to enable comments on the blog section.
Plugins
You can add third party plugins from here very easily, We create a loop for plugins, you will see two plugins loop here, first one is for css
and last one is for js
. just copy a loop item that you need and paste it in the bottom of the loop. and link correctly, after added a plugins, you maybe need to close the hugo server and run it again for rendered correctly.
Default Parameters
Logo
field is for your site logo, you can set a default logo for your site, just give here the logo directory.description
field is for your default meta description, it will show on your homepage and other page that have not any meta description on this page front-matter.author
is for site author name.googleAnalitycsID
is for turn on google analytics on your site, give your won analytics ID here.preloader
is for site preloader, you can enable or disable preloader by enable = true or false, then if you want any image, logo, or animation in preloader then give the location inpreloader =
, likepreloader = images/preloader.gif
or if you don’t want any logo or image then leave the preloader field empty, then it will show just a white screen when every component is loading. that’s simple.social
is for social icon. you can choose more icon from hereLanguage
is for multilingual content. we used two language here. you can add more language following this example content.