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. paginate
- set the amount of posts shown on blogoverview pages. If you have more than this amount of posts a pagination will be shown to navigate to the next set of posts.
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
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.contact_form_action
is your contact form action. it works with https://formspree.iocopyright
is your site copyright.