Kubo

A minimal custom Theme for Hugo

Kubo is a Hugo theme written by @grellyd for grellyd.com. It is insipired by the excellent minimal theme XMin by Yihui Xie.

The theme prioritises static pages and blog posts.

Kubo is still a work in progress, and should not yet be used in a production site.

Features

• Simple and clean
• Full social linking in base bar via params values
• Responsive, to an extent.
  • Simply has two stages: regular and mobile
  • Detected by @media screen and (max-width: 800px)
• Hide sections from the sidebar
  • Within the config.yaml's params section, enumerate the hidden sections.
  • These sections are navigible but do not appear in the sidebar.
• Different site title and name:
  • A site can be named 'Kubo Hugo Theme' and have the title 'Kubo - Theme for Hugo'.
  • This was done to have full instantiated title on search pages, while maintaining a short on-page title.

Install Requrirements

Example Configs

baseURL: /
title: Kubo - Minimal Hugo Theme
languageCode: en-ca
theme: kubo_hugo
disableKinds: [RSS, sitemap]
params:
    AuthorName: Graham L. Brown
    GithubUsername: grellyd
    TwitterUsername: grellyd
    LinkedInUsername: grellyd
    ContactEmail: graham@grellyd.com
    SiteName: Grellyd
    HiddenSections: [demo]

baseurl = "/"
title = "Kubo - Minimal Hugo Theme"
languageCode = "en-ca"
theme = "kubo_hugo"
disableKinds = ["RSS", "sitemap"]

[params]
AuthorName = "Graham L. Brown"
GithubUsername = "grellyd"
TwitterUsername = "grellyd"
LinkedInUsername = "grellyd"
ContactEmail = "graham@grellyd.com"
SiteName = "Kubo Hugo"
HiddenSections = ["demo"]

Running locally for Development

Run hugo server -s exampleSite --themesDir=../.. -v --debug