Ghostwriter

Enhanced port of the Ghost “ghostwriter“ theme to the Hugo site generator.

Installation

Inside the folder of your Hugo site run:

$ mkdir themes
$ cd themes
$ git clone https://github.com/jbub/ghostwriter

For more information read the official setup guide of Hugo.

Development

After installing the theme you need to install javascript dependencies. You can use npm to install them from package.json. We are using webpack to build and package styles. In order to develop with realtime reloading in the browser you can use this powerful combo:

hugo server
npm run watch

To update theme styles edit the styles/style.scss file. You can then either use the watch command or run build to compile the styles:

npm run build

Example config.yml

To customize your theme you can use following params:

baseurl: "https://example.com/"
title: mytitle
theme: ghostwriter
languageCode: en-us
copyright: My Name
googleAnalytics: XXX
disqusShortname: XXX
pygmentsUseClasses: true
pygmentsCodefences: true

markup:
  highlight:
    codeFences: true
    guessSyntax: false
    hl_Lines: ""
    lineNoStart: 1
    lineNos: false
    lineNumbersInTable: true
    noClasses: true
    tabWidth: 2

privacy:
  disqus:
    disable: true
  googleAnalytics:
    anonymizeIP: true
    respectDoNotTrack: true
    useSessionStorage: false

author:
  name: My Name
  profile: ""

taxonomies:
  tag: tags

params:
  mainSections:
    - post
  intro: true
  headline: My headline
  description: My description
  github: "https://github.com/XXX"
  gitlab: "https://gitlab.com/XXX"
  linkedin: "https://linkedin.com/in/XXX/"
  twitter: "https://twitter.com/XXX"
  stackoverflow: "https://stackoverflow.com/users/XXX/YYY"
  facebook: "https://www.facebook.com/username"
  email: xxx@example.com
  opengraph: true
  shareTwitter: true
  rss: true
  shareFacebook: true
  shareLinkedIn: false
  dateFormat: "Mon, Jan 2, 2006"
  exponeaJsUrl: ""
  exponeaTarget: ""
  exponeaToken: ""
  exponeaTrackVisits: false
  readingTime: true
  readingTimeText: "Estimated reading time:"
  fathomUrl: ""
  fathomSiteId: ""
  plausibleAnalytics:
    domain: ""
    # Default value is plausible.io, overwrite this if you are self-hosting or using a custom domain
    serverURL: ""

permalinks:
  post: "/:year/:month/:day/:filename/"

menu:
  main:
    - name: Blog
      url: /
      weight: 1
    - name: Projects
      url: /project/
      weight: 2
    - name: Contact
      url: /page/contact/
      weight: 3
    - name: About
      url: /page/about/
      weight: 4

You can also inject arbitrary HTML into <head> simply by overriding the extra-in-head.html partial, which is meant for that purpose.