Hugo Themes
Mainroad
Mainroad is a responsive, clean and content-focused Hugo theme.
- Author: Vimux
- GitHub Stars: 814
- Updated: 2023-11-03
- License: GPLv2
- Tags: Blog Light Multilingual Responsive
Mainroad
Mainroad is a responsive, simple, clean and content-focused Hugo theme based on the MH Magazine lite theme.
Features:
- Responsive design
- Main & secondary menus
- Widgetized sidebar
- Translations. Over 15 languages and counting
- Configurable theme settings (sidebar position, author box, post navigation, highlight color) via
config.toml
- Hugo internal templates (Open Graph, Schema, Twitter Cards, Disqus, Google Analytics)
- Wide cross-browser compatibility
- Desktop: IE11+, Chrome, Firefox, Safari
- Mobile: Android browser (on Android 4.4+), Safari (on iOS 7+), Google Chrome, Opera mini
- Custom Google Fonts support, MathJax, Table of Contents, SVG icons and much more…
Installation
Before starting, please be sure that you have installed Hugo and created a new site. After that, you are ready to install Mainroad.
From your project’s root directory, run:
git clone https://github.com/vimux/mainroad.git themes/mainroad
Or, if you don’t plan to make any significant changes but want to track and update the theme, you can add it as a git submodule via the following command:
git submodule add https://github.com/vimux/mainroad.git themes/mainroad
Next, open config.toml
in the base of the Hugo site and ensure the theme option is set to mainroad
:
theme = "mainroad"
Configuration
Config.toml example
baseurl = "/"
title = "Mainroad"
languageCode = "en-us"
paginate = "10" # Number of posts per page
theme = "mainroad"
disqusShortname = "" # Enable Disqus comments by entering your Disqus shortname
googleAnalytics = "" # Enable Google Analytics by entering your tracking id
[Author] # Used in authorbox
name = "John Doe"
bio = "John Doe's true identity is unknown. Maybe he is a successful blogger or writer. Nobody knows it."
avatar = "img/avatar.png"
[Params]
description = "John Doe's Personal blog about everything" # Site description. Used in meta description
copyright = "John Doe" # Footer copyright holder, otherwise will use site title
opengraph = true # Enable OpenGraph if true
schema = true # Enable Schema
twitter_cards = true # Enable Twitter Cards if true
readmore = false # Show "Read more" button in list if true
authorbox = true # Show authorbox at bottom of pages if true
toc = true # Enable Table of Contents
pager = true # Show pager navigation (prev/next links) at the bottom of pages if true
post_meta = ["author", "date", "categories", "translations"] # Order of post meta information
mainSections = ["post", "blog", "news"] # Specify section pages to show on home page and the "Recent articles" widget
dateformat = "2006-01-02" # Change the format of dates
mathjax = true # Enable MathJax
mathjaxPath = "https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/mathjax/2.7.6/MathJax.js" # Specify MathJax path
mathjaxConfig = "TeX-AMS-MML_HTMLorMML" # Specify MathJax config
googleFontsLink = "https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:400,400i,700" # Load Google Fonts
customCSS = ["css/custom.css"] # Include custom CSS files
customJS = ["js/custom.js"] # Include custom JS files
# DEPRECATED PARAMS
subtitle = "" # Deprecated in favor of .Site.Params.logo.subtitle
highlightColor = "" # Deprecated in favor of .Site.Params.style.vars.highlightColor
[Params.style.vars]
highlightColor = "#e22d30" # Override highlight color
# Override font-family sets
# Take care of different quotes OR escaping symbols in these params if necessary
fontFamilyPrimary = "'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"
# Secondary font-family set responsible for pre, code, kbd, and samp tags font
fontFamilySecondary = "SFMono-Regular, Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, 'Liberation Mono', 'Courier New', monospace"
[Params.logo]
image = "img/placeholder.png" # Logo image. Path relative to "static"
title = "Mainroad" # Logo title, otherwise will use site title
subtitle = "Just another site" # Logo subtitle
[Params.thumbnail]
visibility = ["list", "post"] # Control thumbnail visibility
[Params.sidebar]
home = "right" # Configure layout for home page
list = "left" # Configure layout for list pages
single = false # Configure layout for single pages
# Enable widgets in given order
widgets = ["search", "recent", "categories", "taglist", "social", "languages"]
[Params.widgets]
recent_num = 5 # Set the number of articles in the "Recent articles" widget
categories_counter = false # Enable counter for each category in "Categories" widget
tags_counter = false # Enable counter for each tag in "Tags" widget
[Params.widgets.social]
cached = false # activate cache if true
# Enable parts of social widget
facebook = "username"
twitter = "username"
instagram = "username"
linkedin = "username"
telegram = "username"
github = "username"
gitlab = "username"
bitbucket = "username"
email = "example@example.com"
# Custom social links
[[Params.widgets.social.custom]]
title = "Youtube"
url = "https://youtube.com/user/username"
icon = "youtube.svg" # Optional. Path relative to "layouts/partials"
rel = "noopener noreferrer" # Set to false to remove the rel attribute
[[Params.widgets.social.custom]]
title = "My Home Page"
url = "https://example.com"
[Params.widgets.search]
cached = false # activate cache if true
url = "https://google.com/search"
[Params.widgets.search.input]
name = "sitesearch"
pre = ""
Do not copy example config as-is. Use only those parameters that you need.
For more information about all available standard configuration settings, please read All Hugo Configuration Settings.
Front Matter example
---
# Common-Defined params
title: "Example article title"
date: "2017-08-21"
description: "Example article description"
categories:
- "Category 1"
- "Category 2"
tags:
- "Test"
- "Another test"
menu: main # Optional, add page to a menu. Options: main, side, footer
# Theme-Defined params
thumbnail: "img/placeholder.png" # Thumbnail image
lead: "Example lead - highlighted near the title" # Lead text
comments: false # Enable Disqus comments for specific page
authorbox: true # Enable authorbox for specific page
pager: true # Enable pager navigation (prev/next) for specific page
toc: true # Enable Table of Contents for specific page
mathjax: true # Enable MathJax for specific page
sidebar: "right" # Enable sidebar (on the right side) per page
widgets: # Enable sidebar widgets in given order per page
- "search"
- "recent"
- "taglist"
---
For more information about all available standard front matter variables, please read Hugo Front Matter.
Contributing
Have you found a bug or got an idea for a new feature? Feel free to use the issue tracker to let me know. Or make directly a pull request, but please respect the following contributing guide.
License
This theme is released under the GPLv2 license.