Start a Hugo Blog In BlackBurn Style

Blackburn

Blackburn is a clear and responsive theme for Hugo.

Overview

  • Based on Yahoo’s Pure CSS (v1.0.0)
  • Fixed sidebar with social links:
    • Twitter
    • GNU social
    • Facebook
    • Google+
    • Weibo
    • Tumblr
    • Instagram
    • Flickr
    • 500px
    • Pinterest
    • YouTube
    • Vimeo
    • Vine
    • SlideShare
    • LinkedIn
    • Xing
    • Reddit
    • Hacker News
    • GitHub
    • GitLab
    • Bitbucket
    • Stack Overflow
    • Server Fault
    • Steam
    • MobyGames
    • Last.fm
    • Discogs
    • Keybase
  • Client-side syntax highlighting by Highlight.js (v9.12.0)
  • Web analytics by Google Analytics
  • Comments by Disqus
  • Icons by Font Awesome (v4.7.0)

Demo

  • Demo
  • You can also see it in action on my personal website here

Screenshots

screenshot

Installation

In your Hugo site directory, run:

$ mkdir themes
$ cd themes
$ git clone https://github.com/yoshiharuyamashita/blackburn.git

or download from here.

See Hugo Quickstart Guide for more information.

Configuration

Example config.toml:

baseurl = "https://www.example.com/" # Make sure to end baseurl with a '/'
title = "Your site title"
author = "Your name"
# Shown in the side menu
copyright = "© 2016. All rights reserved."
canonifyurls = true
paginate = 10

[indexes]
  tag = "tags"
  topic = "topics"

[params]
  # Shown in the home page
  subtitle = "A Hugo Theme"
  brand = "Blackburn"
  googleAnalytics = "Your Google Analytics tracking ID"
  disqus = "Your Disqus shortname"
  # CSS name for highlight.js
  highlightjs = "androidstudio"
  highlightjs_extra_languages = ["yaml"]
  dateFormat = "02 Jan 2006, 15:04"
  # Include any custom CSS and/or JS files
  # (relative to /static folder)
  custom_css = ["css/my.css"]
  custom_js = ["js/my.js"]

[menu]
  # Shown in the side menu.
  [[menu.main]]
    name = "Home"
    pre = "<i class='fa fa-home fa-fw'></i>"
    weight = 0
    identifier = "home"
    url = "/"
  [[menu.main]]
    name = "Posts"
    pre = "<i class='fa fa-list fa-fw'></i>"
    weight = 1
    identifier = "post"
    url = "/post/"
  [[menu.main]]
    name = "About"
    pre = "<i class='fa fa-user fa-fw'></i>"
    weight = 2
    identifier = "about"
    url = "/about/"
  [[menu.main]]
    name = "Contact"
    pre = "<i class='fa fa-phone fa-fw'></i>"
    weight = 3
    url = "/contact/"

[social]
  # Link your social networking accounts to the side menu
  # by entering your username or ID.

  # SNS microblogging
  twitter = "*"
  gnusocial = "*" # Specify href (e.g. https://quitter.se/yourusername)
  facebook = "*"
  googleplus = "*"
  weibo = "*"
  tumblr = "*"

  # SNS photo/video sharing
  instagram = "*"
  flickr = "*"
  photo500px = "*"
  pinterest = "*"
  youtube = "*"
  vimeo = "*"
  vine = "*"
  slideshare = "*"

  # SNS career oriented
  linkedin = "*"
  xing = "*"

  # SNS news
  reddit = "*"
  hackernews = "*"

  # Techie
  github = "yoshiharuyamashita"
  gitlab = "*"
  bitbucket = "*"
  stackoverflow = "*"
  serverfault = "*"

  # Gaming
  steam = "*"
  mobygames = "*"

  # Music
  lastfm = "*"
  discogs = "*"

  # Other
  keybase = "*"

Usage

  • Write Markdown files in content/post
  • Add fixed pages (e.g., about.md) to the side menu by defining them under [menu] in the config.toml:
[[menu.main]]
  name = "About"
  pre = "<i class='fa fa-user fa-fw'></i>"
  weight = 2
  identifier = "about"
  url = "/about/"
  • Override the theme by linking to custom CSS files:
[params]
  custom_css = ["css/my.css"]
  • Add new behaviours by linking to custom JS files:
[params]
  custom_js = ["js/my.js"]

Shortcodes

fluid_imgs

< fluid_imgs
  "class|src|alt"
  "class|src|alt"
  "... and so on"
>

where each positional parameter is separated by the vertical bar (i.e., |).

  • class: specifies a Pure CSS unit class name (required)
  • src: specifies the URL of an image (required)
  • alt: specifies an alternate text for an image (optional)

See here for examples.

fluid_img (obsolete)

Positional

% fluid_img "/path/to/img" %

Named

% fluid_img class="pure-u-1-2" src="/path/to/img" alt="img description" %
% fluid_img class="pure-u-1-3" src="/path/to/img" caption="img description" %
  • class, alt and caption are optional.
  • See Pure CSS Grids for possible class values.

License

 
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