Theme Documentation - Basics

Discover what the Hugo - DoIt theme is all about and the core-concepts behind it.

Thanks to the simplicity of Hugo, Hugo is the only dependency of this theme.

Just install latest version of Hugo (> 0.122.0) for your OS (Windows, Linux, macOS).

Why not support earlier versions of Hugo?
Since WebP Image Processing was introduced in the Hugo 0.122.0, this theme only supports Hugo versions above 0.122.0.
Hugo extended version is recommended
Since some features of this theme need to processes SCSS to CSS, it is recommended to use Hugo extended version for better experience.

The following steps are here to help you initialize your new website. If you don’t know Hugo at all, we strongly suggest you learn more about it by following this great documentation for beginners.

Hugo provides a new command to create a new website:

bash

hugo new site my_website
cd my_website

The DoIt theme’s repository is: https://github.com/HEIGE-PCloud/DoIt.

You can download the latest release .zip file of the theme and extract it in the themes directory.

Alternatively, clone this repository to the themes directory:

bash

git clone https://github.com/HEIGE-PCloud/DoIt.git themes/DoIt

Or, create an empty git repository and make this repository a submodule of your site directory:

bash

git init
git submodule add https://github.com/HEIGE-PCloud/DoIt.git themes/DoIt

The following is a basic configuration for the DoIt theme:

toml

baseURL = "http://example.org/"
# [en, zh-cn, fr, ...] determines default content language
defaultContentLanguage = "en"
# language code
languageCode = "en"
title = "My New Hugo Site"

# Change the default theme to be use when building the site with Hugo
theme = "DoIt"

[params]
  # DoIt theme version
  version = "0.2.X"

[menu]
  [[menu.main]]
    identifier = "posts"
    # you can add extra information before the name (HTML format is supported), such as icons
    pre = ""
    # you can add extra information after the name (HTML format is supported), such as icons
    post = ""
    name = "Posts"
    url = "/posts/"
    # title will be shown when you hover on this menu link
    title = ""
    weight = 1
  [[menu.main]]
    identifier = "tags"
    pre = ""
    post = ""
    name = "Tags"
    url = "/tags/"
    title = ""
    weight = 2
  [[menu.main]]
    identifier = "categories"
    pre = ""
    post = ""
    name = "Categories"
    url = "/categories/"
    title = ""
    weight = 3

# Markup related configuration in Hugo
[markup]
  # Syntax Highlighting (https://gohugo.io/content-management/syntax-highlighting)
  [markup.highlight]
    # false is a necessary configuration (https://github.com/dillonzq/LoveIt/issues/158)
    noClasses = false
Note
When building the website, you can set a theme by using --theme option. However, we suggest you modify the configuration file (config.toml) and set the theme as the default.

2.4 Create Your First Post

Here is the way to create your first post:

bash

hugo new posts/first_post.md

Feel free to edit the post file by adding some sample content and replacing the title value in the beginning of the file.

Note
By default all posts and pages are created as a draft. If you want to render these pages, remove the property draft: true from the metadata, set the property draft: false or add -D/--buildDrafts parameter to hugo command.

Launch by using the following command:

bash

hugo serve

Go to http://localhost:1313.

Basic configuration preview
Tip
When you run hugo serve, when the contents of the files change, the page automatically refreshes with the changes.
Note

Since the theme use .Scratch in Hugo to implement some features, it is highly recommended that you add --disableFastRender parameter to hugo server command for the live preview of the page you are editing.

bash

hugo serve --disableFastRender

When your site is ready to deploy, run the following command:

bash

hugo

A public folder will be generated, containing all static content and assets for your website. It can now be deployed on any web server.

Tip
The website can be automatically published and hosted with Netlify (Read more about Automated HUGO deployments with Netlify). Alternatively, you can use AWS Amplify, Github pages, Render and more…

In addition to Hugo global configuration and menu configuration, DoIt lets you define the following parameters in your site configuration (here is a config.toml, whose values are default).

Please open the code block below to view the complete sample configuration :

toml

[params]
  # DoIt CHANGED | 0.2.0 DoIt theme version
  version = "0.3.X"
  # website title
  title = "My New Hugo Site"
  # site description
  description = "This is My New Hugo Site"
  # site keywords
  keywords = ["Theme", "Hugo"]
  # DoIt CHANGED | 0.2.11 site default theme ("light", "dark", "black", "auto")
  defaultTheme = "auto"
  # public git repo url only then enableGitInfo is true
  gitRepo = ""
  # DoIt NEW | 0.1.1 which hash function used for SRI, when empty, no SRI is used
  # ("sha256", "sha384", "sha512", "md5")
  fingerprint = ""
  # DoIt NEW | 0.2.0 date format
  dateFormat = "2006-01-02"
  # website images for Open Graph and Twitter Cards
  images = ["/logo.png"]
  # DoIt NEW | 0.2.11 enable PWA support
  enablePWA = false
  # [Experimental] cache remote images in markdown, more info: https://github.com/HEIGE-PCloud/DoIt/pull/860#issue-1574342372
  cacheRemoteImages = true
  # [Experimental] generate image srcset attribute with hugo image processing feature.
  optimizeImages = true
  # [Experimental] resize method for srcset attribute in optimizeImages, more info: https://gohugo.io/content-management/image-processing/#image-processing-options
  srcsetSmallResizeMethod = "700x webp Lanczos q75"
  srcsetDefaultResizeMethod = "1200x webp Lanczos q75"
  srcsetLargeResizeMethod = "2000x webp Lanczos q75"
  # DoIt NEW | 0.2.0 App icon config
  # DoIt NEW | 0.2.14 License information
  license = '<a rel="license external nofollow noopener noreffer" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/" target="_blank">CC BY-NC 4.0</a>'
  [params.app]
    # optional site title override for the app when added to an iOS home screen or Android launcher
    title = "DoIt"
    # whether to omit favicon resource links
    noFavicon = false
    # modern SVG favicon to use in place of older style .png and .ico files
    svgFavicon = ""
    # Safari mask icon color
    iconColor = "#5bbad5"
    # Windows v8-10 tile color
    tileColor = "#da532c"

  # DoIt NEW | 0.2.0 Search config
  [params.search]
    enable = true
    # type of search engine ("algolia", "fuse")
    type = "fuse"
    # max index length of the chunked content
    contentLength = 4000
    # placeholder of the search bar
    placeholder = ""
    # DoIt NEW | 0.2.1 max number of results length
    maxResultLength = 10
    # DoIt NEW | 0.2.3 snippet length of the result
    snippetLength = 30
    # DoIt NEW | 0.2.1 HTML tag name of the highlight part in results
    highlightTag = "em"
    # DoIt NEW | 0.2.4 whether to use the absolute URL based on the baseURL in search index
    absoluteURL = false
    [params.search.algolia]
      index = ""
      appID = ""
      searchKey = ""
    [params.search.fuse]
      # DoIt NEW | 0.2.12 https://fusejs.io/api/options.html
      isCaseSensitive = false
      minMatchCharLength = 2
      findAllMatches = false
      location = 0
      threshold = 0.3
      distance = 100
      ignoreLocation = false
      useExtendedSearch = false
      ignoreFieldNorm = false

  [params.image]
    # cache remote images for better optimisations
    cacheRemote = true
    # Image resizing and optimisation
    optimise = true
  # Header config
  [params.header]
    # DoIt NEW | 0.2.11 Theme change mode
    # theme change mode ("switch", "select")
    themeChangeMode = "select"
    # DoIt NEW | 0.2.0 Header title config
    [params.header.title]
      # URL of the LOGO
      logo = ""
      # title name
      name = ""
      # you can add extra information before the name (HTML format is supported), such as icons
      pre = ""
      # you can add extra information after the name (HTML format is supported), such as icons
      post = ""
      # DoIt NEW | 0.2.5 whether to use typeit animation for title name
      typeit = false

  # Footer config
  [params.footer]
    enable = true
    # DoIt NEW | 0.2.0 Custom content (HTML format is supported)
    custom = ''
    # DoIt NEW | 0.2.0 whether to show Hugo and theme info
    hugo = true
    # DoIt NEW | 0.2.14 Hosted on (HTML format is supported)
    # <a title="Github Pages" href="https://docs.github.com/en/pages/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreffer">GitHub Pages</a>
    hostedOn = ''
    # DoIt NEW | 0.2.0 whether to show copyright info
    copyright = true
    # DoIt NEW | 0.2.0 whether to show the author
    author = true
    # Site creation time
    since = 2019
    # ICP info only in China (HTML format is supported)
    icp = ""
    # license info (HTML format is supported)
    license = '<a rel="license external nofollow noopener noreffer" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/" target="_blank">CC BY-NC 4.0</a>'

  # DoIt NEW | 0.2.0 Section (all posts) page config
  [params.section]
    # special amount of posts in each section page
    paginate = 20
    # date format (month and day)
    dateFormat = "01-02"
    # amount of RSS pages
    rss = 10
    # DoIt NEW | 0.2.13 recently updated posts settings
    [params.section.recentlyUpdated]
      enable = false
      rss = false
      days = 30
      maxCount = 10

  # DoIt NEW | 0.2.0 List (category or tag) page config
  [params.list]
    # special amount of posts in each list page
    paginate = 20
    # date format (month and day)
    dateFormat = "01-02"
    # amount of RSS pages
    rss = 10

  # Home page config
  [params.home]
    # DoIt NEW | 0.2.0 amount of RSS pages
    rss = 10
    # Home page profile
    [params.home.profile]
      enable = true
      # Gravatar Email for preferred avatar in home page
      gravatarEmail = ""
      # URL of avatar shown in home page
      # Place your avatar file under static or assets directory
      # The filepath is relative to the static or assets directory
      avatarURL = "/images/avatar.webp"
      # URL the avatar links to
      avatarLinkURL = ""
      # DoIt CHANGED | 0.2.7 title shown in home page (HTML format is supported)
      title = ""
      # subtitle shown in home page
      subtitle = "This is My New Hugo Site"
      # whether to use typeit animation for subtitle
      typeit = true
      # whether to show social links
      social = true
      # DoIt NEW | 0.2.0 disclaimer (HTML format is supported)
      disclaimer = ""
    # Home page posts
    [params.home.posts]
      enable = true
      # special amount of posts in each home posts page
      paginate = 6
      # DoIt DELETED | 0.2.0 replaced with hiddenFromHomePage in params.page
      # default behavior when you don't set "hiddenFromHomePage" in front matter
      defaultHiddenFromHomePage = false

  # Social config about the author
  [params.social]
    GitHub = "xxxx"
    Linkedin = ""
    Twitter = "xxxx"
    Instagram = "xxxx"
    Facebook = "xxxx"
    Telegram = "xxxx"
    Medium = ""
    Gitlab = ""
    Youtubelegacy = ""
    Youtubecustom = ""
    Youtubechannel = ""
    Tumblr = ""
    Quora = ""
    Keybase = ""
    Pinterest = ""
    Reddit = ""
    Codepen = ""
    FreeCodeCamp = ""
    Bitbucket = ""
    Stackoverflow = ""
    Weibo = ""
    Odnoklassniki = ""
    VK = ""
    Flickr = ""
    Xing = ""
    Snapchat = ""
    Soundcloud = ""
    Spotify = ""
    Bandcamp = ""
    Paypal = ""
    Fivehundredpx = ""
    Mix = ""
    Goodreads = ""
    Lastfm = ""
    Foursquare = ""
    Hackernews = ""
    Kickstarter = ""
    Patreon = ""
    Steam = ""
    Twitch = ""
    Strava = ""
    Skype = ""
    Whatsapp = ""
    Zhihu = ""
    Douban = ""
    Angellist = ""
    Slidershare = ""
    Jsfiddle = ""
    Deviantart = ""
    Behance = ""
    Dribbble = ""
    Wordpress = ""
    Vine = ""
    Googlescholar = ""
    Researchgate = ""
    Mastodon = ""
    Thingiverse = ""
    Devto = ""
    Gitea = ""
    XMPP = ""
    Matrix = ""
    Bilibili = ""
    ORCID = ""
    Liberapay = ""
    Ko-Fi = ""
    BuyMeACoffee = ""
    Linktree = ""
    QQ = ""
    QQGroup = ""
    Email = "xxxx@xxxx.com"
    RSS = true # DoIt NEW | 0.2.0

  # DoIt CHANGED | 0.2.0 Page config
  [params.page]
    # DoIt NEW | 0.2.0 whether to hide a page from home page
    hiddenFromHomePage = false
    # DoIt NEW | 0.2.0 whether to hide a page from search results
    hiddenFromSearch = false
    # DoIt NEW | 0.2.0 whether to enable twemoji
    twemoji = false
    # whether to enable lightgallery
    lightgallery = false
    # DoIt NEW | 0.2.0 whether to enable the ruby extended syntax
    ruby = true
    # DoIt NEW | 0.2.0 whether to enable the fraction extended syntax
    fraction = true
    # whether to show link to Raw Markdown content of the content
    linkToMarkdown = true
    # DoIt NEW | 0.2.14 configure the link to the source file of the post
    linkToSource = false
    # "https://github.com/user/repo/blob/main/{path}"
    # DoIt NEW | 0.2.13 configure the link to edit the post
    linkToEdit = false
    # "https://github.com/user/repo/edit/main/{path}"
    # "https://gitlab.com/user/repo/-/edit/main/{path}"
    # "https://bitbucket.org/user/repo/src/main/{path}?mode=edit"
    # DoIt NEW | 0.2.14 configure the link to report issue for the post
    linkToReport = false
    # "https://github.com/user/repo/issues/new?title=[bug]%20{title}&body=|Field|Value|%0A|-|-|%0A|Title|{title}|%0A|Url|{url}|%0A|Filename|https://github.com/user/repo/blob/main/{path}|"
    # DoIt NEW | 0.2.4 whether to show the full text content in RSS
    rssFullText = false
    # DoIt NEW | 0.2.13 whether to enable series navigation
    seriesNavigation = true
    # whether to enable last modified time
    enableLastMod = true
    # whether to enable word count
    enableWordCount = true
    # whether to enable reading time estimation
    enableReadingTime = true
    # DoIt NEW | 0.2.13 outdated article reminder config
    [params.page.outdatedArticleReminder]
      enable = false
      # Display the reminder if the last modified time is more than 90 days ago.
      reminder = 90
      # Display warning if the last modified time is more than 180 days ago.
      warning = 180
    # DoIt NEW | 0.2.0 Table of the contents config
    [params.page.toc]
      # whether to enable the table of the contents
      enable = true
      # DoIt NEW | 0.2.9 whether to keep the static table of the contents in front of the post
      keepStatic = true
      # whether to make the table of the contents in the sidebar automatically collapsed
      auto = true
    # DoIt CHANGED | 0.2.0 KaTeX mathematical formulas
    [params.page.math]
      enable = true
      # default block delimiter is $$ ... $$ and \\[ ... \\]
      blockLeftDelimiter = ""
      blockRightDelimiter = ""
      # default inline delimiter is $ ... $ and \\( ... \\)
      inlineLeftDelimiter = ""
      inlineRightDelimiter = ""
      # KaTeX extension copy_tex
      copyTex = true
      # KaTeX extension mhchem
      mhchem = true
      # Use MathJax instead of KaTeX
      mathjax = false
    # DoIt NEW | 0.2.0 Code config
    [params.page.code]
      # the maximum number of lines of displayed code by default
      maxShownLines = 10
    # DoIt NEW | 0.2.14 Table config
    [params.page.table]
      # whether to enable sorting in the tables
      sort = true
    # DoIt NEW | 0.2.0 Mapbox GL JS config
    [params.page.mapbox]
      # access token of Mapbox GL JS
      accessToken = ""
      # style for the light theme
      lightStyle = "mapbox://styles/mapbox/light-v9"
      # style for the dark theme
      darkStyle = "mapbox://styles/mapbox/dark-v9"
      # whether to add NavigationControl
      navigation = true
      # whether to add GeolocateControl
      geolocate = true
      # whether to add ScaleControl
      scale = true
      # whether to add FullscreenControl
      fullscreen = true
    # DoIt CHANGED | 0.2.0 social share links in post page
    [params.page.share]
      enable = true
      Twitter = true
      Facebook = true
      Linkedin = false
      Whatsapp = true
      Pinterest = false
      Tumblr = false
      HackerNews = false
      Reddit = false
      VK = false
      Buffer = false
      Xing = false
      Line = true
      Instapaper = false
      Pocket = false
      Digg = false
      Stumbleupon = false
      Flipboard = false
      Weibo = true
      Renren = false
      Myspace = true
      Blogger = true
      Baidu = false
      Odnoklassniki = false
      Evernote = true
      Skype = false
      Trello = false
      Mix = false
      Mastodon = false

    # instant.page config
    [params.page.instantpage]
      enable = false

    # DoIt CHANGED | 0.2.0 Comment config
    [params.page.comment]
      enable = true
      # Disqus comment config
      [params.page.comment.disqus]
        # DoIt NEW | 0.1.1
        enable = false
        # Disqus shortname to use Disqus in posts
        shortname = ""
      # Gitalk comment config
      [params.page.comment.gitalk]
        # DoIt NEW | 0.1.1
        enable = false
        owner = ""
        repo = ""
        clientId = ""
        clientSecret = ""
      # Valine comment config
      [params.page.comment.valine]
        enable = false
        appId = ""
        appKey = ""
        placeholder = ""
        avatar = "mp"
        meta= ""
        pageSize = 10
        lang = ""
        visitor = true
        recordIP = true
        highlight = true
        enableQQ = false
        serverURLs = ""
        # DoIt NEW | 0.2.6 emoji data file name, default is "google.yml"
        # ("apple.yml", "google.yml", "facebook.yml", "twitter.yml")
        # located in "themes/DoIt/assets/data/emoji/" directory
        # you can store your own data files in the same path under your project:
        # "assets/data/emoji/"
        emoji = ""
      # Waline comment config
      [params.page.comment.waline]
        # DoIt CHANGED | 0.2.14
        enable = false
        serverURL = ""
        pageview = true
        comment = true
        # emoji = ['https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/walinejs/emojis/weibo']
        # meta = ['nick', 'mail', 'link']
        # requiredMeta = []
        # login = 'enable'
        # wordLimit = 0
        # pageSize = 10
        # imageUploader = false
        # highlighter = false
        # texRenderer = false
      # Facebook comment config
      [params.page.comment.facebook]
        enable = false
        width = "100%"
        numPosts = 10
        appId = ""
        languageCode = ""
      # DoIt NEW | 0.2.0 Telegram comments config
      [params.page.comment.telegram]
        enable = false
        siteID = ""
        limit = 5
        height = ""
        color = ""
        colorful = true
        dislikes = false
        outlined = false
        dark = false
      # DoIt NEW | 0.2.0 Commento comment config
      [params.page.comment.commento]
        enable = false
      # DoIt NEW | 0.2.5 Utterances comment config
      [params.page.comment.utterances]
        enable = false
        # owner/repo
        repo = ""
        issueTerm = "pathname"
        label = ""
        lightTheme = "github-light"
        darkTheme = "github-dark"
      # DoIt NEW | 0.2.12 Twikoo comment config
      [params.page.comment.twikoo]
        enable = false
        envId = ""
        region = ""
        path = ""
        cloudbase = true # boolean : true / false. #If you deploy your Twikoo on CloudBase, set it to true.
        visitor = true
        commentCount = true
      # DoIt NEW | 0.2.12 Vssue comment config
      [params.page.comment.vssue]
        enable = false
        platform = "" # ("bitbucket", "gitea", "gitee", "github", "gitlab")
        owner = ""
        repo = ""
        clientId = ""
        clientSecret = ""
      # DoIt NEW | 0.2.13 Remark42 comment config
      [params.page.comment.remark42]
        enable = false
        host = ""
        site_id = ""
        max_shown_comments = 15
        show_email_subscription = true
        simple_view = false
      # DoIt NEW | 0.2.13 giscus comment config
      [params.page.comment.giscus]
        enable = false
        # owner/repo
        dataRepo = ""
        dataRepoId = ""
        dataCategory = ""
        dataCategoryId = ""
        dataMapping = "pathname"
        dataReactionsEnabled = "1"
        dataEmitMetadata = "0"
        dataInputPosition = "bottom"
        lightTheme = "light"
        darkTheme = "dark"
        dataLang = "en"
        dataLoading = "lazy"
      # artalk comment config
      [params.page.comment.artalk]
        enable = false
        server = ""
        site = ""
        lite = false
        katex = false
        lightbox = false
        pageview = true
        commentCount = true
    # DoIt NEW | 0.2.7 Third-party library config
    [params.page.library]
      [params.page.library.css]
        # someCSS = "some.css"
        # DoIt NEW | 0.2.14 Enhance third-party library config
        # [params.page.library.css.someOtherCSS]
        #   src = "someOther.css"
        #   defer = true
        #   attr = "customAttribute"
        # located in "assets/"
        # Or
        # someCSS = "https://cdn.example.com/some.css"
      [params.page.library.js]
        # someJavaScript = "some.js"
        # DoIt NEW | 0.2.14 Enhance third-party library config
        # [params.page.library.js.someOtherJavaScript]
        #   src = "someOther.js"
        #   defer = false
        #   async = true
        #   attr = "customAttribute"
        # located in "assets/"
        # Or
        # someJavaScript = "https://cdn.example.com/some.js"
    # DoIt CHANGED | 0.2.10 Page SEO config
    [params.page.seo]
      # image URL
      images = []
      # Publisher info
      [params.page.seo.publisher]
        name = ""
        logoUrl = ""
    # DoIt NEW | 0.2.14 Related content config
      [params.page.related]
        enable = true
        count = 5


  # DoIt NEW | 0.2.13 Sponsor config
  [params.sponsor]
    enable = false
    bio = "If you find this post helpful, please consider sponsoring."
    link = "https://www.buymeacoffee.com" # The link to your sponsor page
    custom = "" # Custom HTML button

  # DoIt NEW | 0.2.5 TypeIt config
  [params.typeit]
    # typing speed between each step (measured in milliseconds)
    speed = 100
    # blinking speed of the cursor (measured in milliseconds)
    cursorSpeed = 1000
    # character used for the cursor (HTML format is supported)
    cursorChar = "|"
    # cursor duration after typing finishing (measured in milliseconds, "-1" means unlimited)
    duration = -1

  # Site verification code config for Google/Bing/Yandex/Pinterest/Baidu
  [params.verification]
    google = ""
    bing = ""
    yandex = ""
    pinterest = ""
    baidu = ""
    so = "" # 360 search
    sogou = ""

  # DoIt NEW | 0.2.10 Site SEO config
  [params.seo]
    # image URL
    image = ""
    # thumbnail URL
    thumbnailUrl = ""
    # DoIt NEW | 0.4.1
    # alternate site name in Google search result
    alternateName = ["Hugo DoIt"]

  # DoIt NEW | 0.2.0 Analytics config
  [params.analytics]
    enable = false
    # Google Analytics
    [params.analytics.google]
      id = ""
      # whether to anonymize IP
      anonymizeIP = true
    # Fathom Analytics
    [params.analytics.fathom]
      id = ""
      # server url for your tracker if you're self hosting
      server = ""
    # DoIt NEW | 0.2.13 Baidu Analytics
    [params.analytics.baidu]
      id = ""
    # DoIt NEW | 0.2.13 Umami Analytics
    [params.analytics.umami]
      data_website_id = ""
      src = ""
      data_host_url = ""
      data_domains = ""
    # DoIt NEW | 0.2.13 Plausible Analytics
    [params.analytics.plausible]
      data_domain = ""
      src = ""
    # DoIt NEW | 0.2.14 Cloudflare Analytics
    [params.analytics.cloudflare]
      token = ""

  # DoIt NEW | 0.2.7 Cookie consent config
  [params.cookieconsent]
    enable = true
    # text strings used for Cookie consent banner
    [params.cookieconsent.content]
      message = ""
      dismiss = ""
      link = ""

  # DoIt CHANGED | 0.2.7 CDN config for third-party library files
  [params.cdn]
    # CDN data file name, disabled by default
    # ("jsdelivr.yml")
    # located in "themes/DoIt/assets/data/cdn/" directory
    # you can store your own data files in the same path under your project:
    # "assets/data/cdn/"
    data = ""

  # DoIt NEW | 0.2.8 Compatibility config
  [params.compatibility]
    # whether to use Polyfill.io on cdnjs to be compatible with older browsers
    # https://blog.cloudflare.com/polyfill-io-now-available-on-cdnjs-reduce-your-supply-chain-risk
    polyfill = false
    # whether to use object-fit-images to be compatible with older browsers
    objectFit = false

# Markup related config in Hugo
[markup]
  # Syntax Highlighting
  [markup.highlight]
    codeFences = true
    guessSyntax = true
    lineNos = true
    lineNumbersInTable = true
    # false is a necessary configuration
    # (https://github.com/dillonzq/LoveIt/issues/158)
    noClasses = false
  # Goldmark is from Hugo 0.60 the default library used for Markdown
  [markup.goldmark]
    [markup.goldmark.extensions]
      definitionList = true
      footnote = true
      linkify = true
      strikethrough = true
      table = true
      taskList = true
      typographer = true
    [markup.goldmark.renderer]
      # whether to use HTML tags directly in the document
      unsafe = true
  # Table Of Contents settings
  [markup.tableOfContents]
    startLevel = 2
    endLevel = 6

# Author config
[author]
  name = "xxxx"
  email = ""
  link = ""
  avatar = ""
  gravatarEmail = ""

# Sitemap config
[sitemap]
  changefreq = "weekly"
  filename = "sitemap.xml"
  priority = 0.5

# Permalinks config
[Permalinks]
  # posts = ":year/:month/:filename"
  posts = ":filename"

# Privacy config
[privacy]
  # DoIt DELETED | 0.2.0 privacy of the Google Analytics (replaced by params.analytics.google)
  [privacy.googleAnalytics]
    # ...
  [privacy.twitter]
    enableDNT = true
  [privacy.youtube]
    privacyEnhanced = true

# Options to make output .md files
[mediaTypes]
  [mediaTypes."text/plain"]
    suffixes = ["md"]

# Options to make output .md files
[outputFormats.MarkDown]
  mediaType = "text/plain"
  isPlainText = true
  isHTML = false

# Options to make hugo output files
[outputs]
  # DoIt CHANGED | 0.2.0
  home = ["HTML", "RSS", "JSON"]
  page = ["HTML", "MarkDown"]
  section = ["HTML", "RSS"]
  taxonomy = ["HTML", "RSS"]

# Options for taxonomies
[taxonomies]
author = "authors"
category = "categories"
tag = "tags"
series = "series"
Note
Note that some of these parameters are explained in details in other sections of this documentation.
Hugo environments

Default environments are development with hugo serve and production with hugo.

Due to limitations in the local development environment, the comment system, CDN and fingerprint will not be enabled in the development environment.

You could enable these features with hugo serve -e production.

Tips about avatar Configuration

toml

[params.home.profile]
  enable = true
  # Gravatar Email for preferred avatar in home page
  gravatarEmail = ""
  # URL of avatar shown in home page
  avatarURL = "/images/avatar.webp"
  # URL the avatar links to
  avatarLinkURL = ""

You can sign up and configure your avatar at Gravatar, the website will automatically obtain and set your avatar through the email address filled in gravatarEmail.

Or you can place image files in the /assets or /static directory, and configure the address under avatarURL to display the avatar. The file path of the referenced resource is relative to the assets or static directory. Please refer to this document for detailed local resource reference method.

Tips about CDN Configuration

DoIt CHANGED | 0.2.7

toml

[params.cdn]
  # CDN data file name, disabled by default
  # ("jsdelivr.yml")
  data = ""

The default CDN data file is located in themes/DoIt/assets/data/cdn/ directory. You can store your own data file in the same path under your project: assets/data/cdn/.

Tips about social Configuration

DoIt NEW | 0.2.0

You can directly set your ID to get a default social link and its icon:

toml

[params.social]
  Mastodon = "@xxxx"

The social link generated is https://mastodon.technology/@xxxx.

Or You can set more options through a dict:

toml

[params.social]
  [params.social.Mastodon]
    # weight when arranging icons (the greater the weight, the later the icon is positioned)
    weight = 0
    # your social ID
    id = "@xxxx"
    # prefix of your social link
    prefix = "https://mastodon.social/"
    # content hovering on the icon
    title = "Mastodon"

The default data of all supported social links is located in themes/DoIt/assets/data/social.yaml, which is you can refer to.

Complete configuration preview

It is recommended to put your own favicons:

  • apple-touch-icon.png (180x180)
  • favicon-32x32.png (32x32)
  • favicon-16x16.png (16x16)
  • mstile-150x150.png (150x150)
  • android-chrome-192x192.png (192x192)
  • android-chrome-512x512.png (512x512)

into /static. They’re easily created via https://realfavicongenerator.net/.

Customize browserconfig.xml and site.webmanifest to set theme-color and background-color.

DoIt CHANGED | 0.2.8
Note
Hugo extended version is necessary for the style customization.

DoIt theme has been built to be as configurable as possible by defining custom .scss style files.

The directory including the custom .scss style files is assets/css relative to your project root directory.

In assets/css/_override.scss, you can override the variables in themes/DoIt/assets/css/_variables.scss to customize the style.

Here is a example:

scss

@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Fira+Mono:400,700&display=swap&subset=latin-ext');
$code-font-family: Fira Mono, Source Code Pro, Menlo, Consolas, Monaco, monospace;

In assets/css/_custom.scss, you can add some css style code to customize the style.

DoIt theme is fully compatible with Hugo multilingual mode, which provides in-browser language switching.

Language Switch
DoIt CHANGED | 0.2.10
Language Hugo Code HTML lang Attribute Theme Docs
English en en
Simplified Chinese zh-cn zh-CN
French fr fr
Polish pl pl
Brazilian Portuguese pt-br pt-BR
Italian it it
Spanish es es
German de de
German de de
Serbian sr sr
Russian ru ru
Romanian ro ro
Vietnamese vi vi
Arabic ar ar
Catalan ca ca
Hindi hi hi
Indonesian id id
Telugu te te
Thai th th
Turkish tr tr
Ukrainian uk uk
Traditional Chinese zh-tw zh-tw

After learning how Hugo handle multilingual websites, define your languages in your site configuration.

For example with English, Chinese and French website:

toml

# [en, zh-cn, fr, pl, ...] determines default content language
defaultContentLanguage = "en"

[languages]
  [languages.en]
    weight = 1
    title = "My New Hugo Site"
    languageCode = "en"
    languageName = "English"
    [[languages.en.menu.main]]
      identifier = "posts"
      pre = ""
      post = ""
      name = "Posts"
      url = "/posts/"
      title = ""
      weight = 1
    [[languages.en.menu.main]]
      identifier = "tags"
      pre = ""
      post = ""
      name = "Tags"
      url = "/tags/"
      title = ""
      weight = 2
    [[languages.en.menu.main]]
      identifier = "categories"
      pre = ""
      post = ""
      name = "Categories"
      url = "/categories/"
      title = ""
      weight = 3

  [languages.zh-cn]
    weight = 2
    title = "我的全新 Hugo 网站"
    # language code, CN only here
    languageCode = "zh-CN"
    languageName = "简体中文"
    # whether to include Chinese/Japanese/Korean
    hasCJKLanguage = true
    [[languages.zh-cn.menu.main]]
      identifier = "posts"
      pre = ""
      post = ""
      name = "文章"
      url = "/posts/"
      title = ""
      weight = 1
    [[languages.zh-cn.menu.main]]
      identifier = "tags"
      pre = ""
      post = ""
      name = "标签"
      url = "/tags/"
      title = ""
      weight = 2
    [[languages.zh-cn.menu.main]]
      identifier = "categories"
      pre = ""
      post = ""
      name = "分类"
      url = "/categories/"
      title = ""
      weight = 3

Then, for each new page, append the language code to the file name.

Single file my-page.md is split in two files:

  • in English: my-page.en.md
  • in Chinese: my-page.zh-cn.md
Note
Be aware that only translated pages are displayed in menu. It’s not replaced with default language content.
Tip
Use Front Matter parameter to translate urls too.

Translations strings are used for common default values used in the theme. Translations are available in some languages, but you may use another language or want to override default values.

To override these values, create a new file in your local i18n folder i18n/<languageCode>.toml and inspire yourself from themes/DoIt/i18n/en.toml.

By the way, as these translations could be used by other people, please take the time to propose a translation by making a PR to the theme!

DoIt NEW | 0.2.0

Based on algolia, searching is supported in DoIt theme.

In order to generate index.json for searching, add JSON output file type to the home of the outputs part in your site configuration.

toml

[outputs]
  home = ["HTML", "RSS", "JSON"]

Based on index.json generated by Hugo, you could activate searching.

Here is the search configuration in your site configuration:

toml

[params.search]
  enable = true
  # type of search engine ("algolia", "fuse")
  type = "fuse"
  # max index length of the chunked content
  contentLength = 4000
  # placeholder of the search bar
  placeholder = ""
  # DoIt NEW | 0.2.1 max number of results length
  maxResultLength = 10
  # DoIt NEW | 0.2.3 snippet length of the result
  snippetLength = 30
  # DoIt NEW | 0.2.1 HTML tag name of the highlight part in results
  highlightTag = "em"
  # DoIt NEW | 0.2.4 whether to use the absolute URL based on the baseURL in search index
  absoluteURL = false
  [params.search.algolia]
    index = ""
    appID = ""
    searchKey = ""
  [params.search.fuse]
    # DoIt NEW | 0.2.12 https://fusejs.io/api/options.html
    isCaseSensitive = false
    minMatchCharLength = 2
    findAllMatches = false
    location = 0
    threshold = 0.3
    distance = 100
    ignoreLocation = false
    useExtendedSearch = false
    ignoreFieldNorm = false
How to choose search engine?

The following is a comparison of two search engines:

  • fuse: simple, no need to synchronize index.json, no limit for contentLength, high performance
  • algolia: high performance and low bandwidth, but need to synchronize index.json and limit for contentLength

DoIt NEW | 0.2.3 The content of the post is separated by h2 and h3 HTML tag to improve query performance and basically implement full-text search. contentLength is used to limit the max index length of the part starting with h2 and h3 HTML tag.

Tips about algolia
You need to upload index.json files to algolia to activate searching. You could upload the index.json files by browsers but a CLI tool may be better. Algolia Atomic is a good choice. To be compatible with Hugo multilingual mode, you need to upload different index.json for each language to the different index of algolia, such as zh-cn/index.json or fr/index.json