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1# Archie - Hugo theme
2Archie is a minimal and clean theme for hugo with a markdown-ish UI.
3
4Forked from [Ezhil Theme](https://github.com/vividvilla/ezhil)
5
6## Demo
7
8[Check the Demo](https://athul.github.io/archie/) hosted on GitHub Pages :smile: . You can find the source code to that in the `site` branch of this repository
9
10
11
12## Feature
13- Google Analytics Script
14- Callouts
15- Tags
16- Auto Dark Mode(based on system theme)
17- Dark/Light Mode toggle
18- tl:dr; frontamatter
19- Cache busting for CSS files
20
21## Installation
22In your Hugo website directory, create a new folder named theme and clone the repo
23```bash
24$ mkdir themes
25$ cd themes
26$ git clone https://github.com/athul/archie.git
27```
28Edit the `config.toml` file with `theme="archie"`
29For more information read the official [setup guide](https://gohugo.io/overview/installing/) of Hugo.
30
31## Writing Posts
32Create a new `.md` file in the *content/posts* folder
33```yml
34---
35title: Title of the post
36description:
37date:
38tldr: (optional)
39draft: true/false (optional)
40tags: [tag names] (optional)
41---
42```
43
44## Credits
45Forked from [Ezhil Theme](https://github.com/vividvilla/ezhil) and Licensed under MIT License
46Inspired by design of blog.jse.li
47
48----
49
50## Config Options
51
52### Custom CSS
53Custom CSS files can be included though the `customcss` config parameter.
54
55Note: CSS files should be placed under the `assets` directory e.g. `assets/css/first.css`.
56
57```toml
58[params]
59 customcss = ["css/first.css", "css/second.css"]
60```
61
62
63## Config of the Demo Site
64
65```toml
66baseURL = "https://athul.github.io/archie/"
67languageCode = "en-us"
68title = "Archie"
69theme="archie"
70copyright = "© Athul"
71# Code Highlight
72pygmentsstyle = "monokai"
73pygmentscodefences = true
74pygmentscodefencesguesssyntax = true
75
76paginate=3 # articles per page
77
78[params]
79 mode="auto" # color-mode → light,dark,toggle or auto
80 useCDN=false # don't use CDNs for fonts and icons, instead serve them locally.
81 subtitle = "Minimal and Clean [blog theme for Hugo](https://github.com/athul/archie)"
82
83# Social Tags
84
85[[params.social]]
86name = "GitHub"
87icon = "github"
88url = "https://github.com/athul/archie"
89
90[[params.social]]
91name = "Twitter"
92icon = "twitter"
93url = "https://twitter.com/athulcajay/"
94
95[[params.social]]
96name = "GitLab"
97icon = "gitlab"
98url = "https://gitlab.com/athul/"
99
100# Main menu Items
101
102[[menu.main]]
103name = "Home"
104url = "/"
105weight = 1
106
107[[menu.main]]
108name = "All posts"
109url = "/posts"
110weight = 2
111
112[[menu.main]]
113name = "About"
114url = "/about"
115weight = 3
116
117[[menu.main]]
118name = "Tags"
119url = "/tags"
120weight = 4
121```
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