---
weight: 1
title: "Theme Documentation - Basics"
date: 2020-03-06T21:29:01+08:00
lastmod: 2020-03-06T21:29:01+08:00
draft: false
author: "Dillon"
authorLink: "https://dillonzq.com"
description: "Discover what the Hugo - LoveIt theme is all about and the core-concepts behind it."

tags: ["installation", "configuration"]
categories: ["documentation"]

featuredImage: "/images/theme-documentation-basics/featured-image.jpg"

toc:
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lightgallery: true
---

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

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## 1 Requirements

Thanks to the simplicity of Hugo, [Hugo](https://gohugo.io/) is the only dependency of this theme.

Just install latest version of [:(far fa-file-archive): Hugo extended (> 0.62.0)](https://gohugo.io/getting-started/installing/) for your OS (**Windows**, **Linux**, **macOS**).

{{< admonition note "Why not support earlier versions of Hugo?" >}}
Since [Markdown Render Hooks](https://gohugo.io/getting-started/configuration-markup/#markdown-render-hooks) was introduced in the [Hugo Christmas Edition](https://gohugo.io/news/0.62.0-relnotes/), this theme only supports Hugo versions above **0.62.0**.
{{< /admonition >}}

{{< admonition note "Why need the Hugo extended version?" >}}
Since the theme processes SCSS to CSS, Hugo needs to be the **extended** version.
{{< /admonition >}}

## 2 Installation

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](https://gohugo.io/getting-started/quick-start/).

### 2.1 Create Your Project

Hugo provides a `new` command to create a new website:

```bash
hugo new site my_website
cd my_website
```

### 2.2 Install the Theme

The **LoveIt** theme’s repository is: [https://github.com/dillonzq/LoveIt](https://github.com/dillonzq/LoveIt).

You can download the [latest release :(far fa-file-archive): .zip file](https://github.com/dillonzq/LoveIt/releases) of the theme and extract it in the `themes` directory.

Alternatively, clone this repository to the `themes` directory:

```bash
git clone https://github.com/dillonzq/LoveIt.git themes/LoveIt
```

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/dillonzq/LoveIt.git themes/LoveIt
```

### 2.3 Basic Configuration {#basic-configuration}

The following is a basic configuration for the LoveIt 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 = "LoveIt"

[params]
  # LoveIt 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 = ""
    name = "Posts"
    url = "/posts/"
    # title will be shown when you hover on this menu link
    title = ""
    weight = 1
  [[menu.main]]
    identifier = "tags"
    pre = ""
    name = "Tags"
    url = "/tags/"
    title = ""
    weight = 2
  [[menu.main]]
    identifier = "categories"
    pre = ""
    name = "Categories"
    url = "/categories/"
    title = ""
    weight = 3
```

{{< admonition >}}
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.
{{< /admonition >}}

### 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.

{{< admonition >}}
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.
{{< /admonition >}}

### 2.5 Launching the Website Locally

Launch by using the following command:

```bash
hugo serve
```

Go to `http://localhost:1313`.

![Basic configuration preview](/images/theme-documentation-basics/basic-configuration-preview.png "Basic configuration preview")

{{< admonition tip >}}
When you run `hugo serve`, when the contents of the files change, the page automatically refreshes with the changes.
{{< /admonition >}}

{{< admonition >}}
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
```
{{< /admonition >}}

### 2.6 Build the Website

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.

{{< admonition tip >}}
The website can be automatically published and hosted with [Netlify](https://www.netlify.com/) (Read more about [Automated HUGO deployments with Netlify](https://www.netlify.com/blog/2015/07/30/hosting-hugo-on-netlifyinsanely-fast-deploys/)).
Alternatively, you can use [AWS Amplify](https://gohugo.io/hosting-and-deployment/hosting-on-aws-amplify/), [Github pages](https://gohugo.io/hosting-and-deployment/hosting-on-github/), [Render](https://gohugo.io/hosting-and-deployment/hosting-on-render/) and more...
{{< /admonition >}}

## 3 Configuration

### 3.1 Site Configuration {#site-configuration}

In addition to [Hugo global configuration](https://gohugo.io/overview/configuration/) and [menu configuration](#basic-configuration), **LoveIt** lets you define the following parameters in your site configuration (here is a `config.toml`, whose values are default).

{{< admonition >}}
Note that some of these parameters are explained in details in other sections of this documentation.
{{< /admonition >}}

```toml
[params]
  # {{< version 0.2.0 changed >}} LoveIt theme version
  version = "0.2.X"
  # site description
  description = "This is My New Hugo Site"
  # site keywords
  keywords = ["Theme", "Hugo"]
  # site default theme ("light", "dark", "auto")
  defaultTheme = "auto"
  # public git repo url only then enableGitInfo is true
  gitRepo = ""
  # {{< version 0.1.1 >}} which hash function used for SRI, when empty, no SRI is used
  # ("sha256", "sha384", "sha512", "md5")
  fingerprint = ""
  # {{< version 0.2.0 >}} date format
  dateFormat = "2006-01-02"

  # {{< version 0.2.0 >}} Search config
  [params.search]
    enable = true
    # type of search engine ("lunr", "algolia")
    type = "lunr"
    # index length of the content
    contentLength = 5000
    # placeholder of the search bar
    placeholder = ""
    [params.search.algolia]
      index = ""
      appID = ""
      searchKey = ""

  # Header config
  [params.header]
    # desktop header mode ("fixed", "normal", "auto")
    desktopMode = "fixed"
    # mobile header mode ("fixed", "normal", "auto")
    mobileMode = "auto"

  # Footer config
  [params.footer]
    enable = true
    # {{< version 0.2.0 >}} Custom content (HTML format is supported)
    custom = ''
    # {{< version 0.2.0 >}} whether to show Hugo and theme info
    hugo = true
    # {{< version 0.2.0 >}} whether to show copyright info
    copyright = true
    # {{< version 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>'

  # {{< version 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"

  # {{< version 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"

  # Home page config
  [params.home]
    # Home page profile
    [params.home.profile]
      enable = true
      # Gravatar Email for preferred avatar in home page
      gravatarEmail = ""
      # URL of avatar shown in home page
      avatarURL = "/images/avatar.png"
      # 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
      # {{< version 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
      # {{< version 0.2.0 deleted >}} default behavior when you don't set "hiddenFromHomePage" in front matter
      defaultHiddenFromHomePage = false

  # Social config about the author
  [params.social]
    GitHub = "xxxx"
    Linkedin = "xxxx"
    Twitter = "xxxx"
    Instagram = "xxxx"
    Email = "xxxx@xxxx.com"
    Facebook = "xxxx"
    Telegram = "xxxx"
    # Medium = "xxxx"
    # Gitlab = "xxxx"
    Youtubelegacy = "xxxx"
    # Youtubecustom = "xxxx"
    # Youtubechannel = "xxxx"
    # Tumblr ="xxxx"
    # Quora = "xxxx"
    # Keybase = "xxxx"
    # Pinterest = "xxxx"
    # Reddit = "xxxx"
    # Codepen = "xxxx"
    # FreeCodeCamp = "xxxx"
    # Bitbucket = "xxxx"
    # Stackoverflow = "xxxx"
    # Weibo = "xxxx"
    # Odnoklassniki = "xxxx"
    # VK = "xxxx"
    # Flickr = "xxxx"
    # Xing = "xxxx"
    # Snapchat = "xxxx"
    # Soundcloud = "xxxx"
    # Spotify = "xxxx"
    # Bandcamp = "xxxx"
    # Paypal = "xxxx"
    # Fivehundredpx = "xxxx"
    # Mix = "xxxx"
    # Goodreads = "xxxx"
    # Lastfm = "xxxx"
    # Foursquare = "xxxx"
    # Hackernews = "xxxx"
    # Kickstarter = "xxxx"
    # Patreon = "xxxx"
    # Steam = "xxxx"
    # Twitch = "xxxx"
    # Strava = "xxxx"
    # Skype = "xxxx"
    # Whatsapp = "xxxx"
    # Zhihu = "xxxx"
    # Douban = "xxxx"
    # Angellist = "xxxx"
    # Slidershare = "xxxx"
    # Jsfiddle = "xxxx"
    # Deviantart = "xxxx"
    # Behance = "xxxx"
    # Dribble = "xxxx"
    # Wordpress = "xxxx"
    # Vine = "xxxx"
    # Googlescholar = "xxxx"
    # Researchgate = "xxxx"
    # Mastodon = "xxxx"
    # MastodonPrefix = "https://mastodon.technology/"
    # Thingiverse = "xxxx"
    # Devto = "xxxx"
    # Gitea = "xxxx"
    # XMPP = "xxxx"
    # Matrix = "xxxx"
    # Bilibili = "xxxx"

  # {{< version 0.2.0 changed >}} Page config
  [params.page]
    # {{< version 0.2.0 >}} whether to hide a page from home page
    hiddenFromHomePage = false
    # {{< version 0.2.0 >}} whether to hide a page from search results
    hiddenFromSearch = false
    # whether to enable lightgallery
    lightgallery = false
    # {{< version 0.2.0 >}} whether to show the copy button of the code block
    copyCode = true
    # {{< version 0.2.0 >}} whether to enable the ruby extended syntax
    ruby = true
    # {{< version 0.2.0 >}} whether to enable the fraction extended syntax
    fraction = true
    # {{< version 0.2.0 >}} whether to enable the fontawesome extended syntax
    fontawesome = true
    # whether to show link to Raw Markdown content of the content
    linkToMarkdown = true
    # {{< version 0.2.0 >}} Table of the contents config
    [params.page.toc]
      # whether to enable the table of the contents
      enable = true
      # whether to make the table of the contents automatically collapsed
      auto = true
    # {{< version 0.2.0 changed >}} {{< link "https://katex.org/" 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
    # {{< version 0.2.0 >}} {{< link "https://docs.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-js" "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 {{< link "https://docs.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-js/api/#navigationcontrol" NavigationControl >}}
      navigation = true
      # whether to add {{< link "https://docs.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-js/api/#geolocatecontrol" GeolocateControl >}}
      geolocate = true
      # whether to add {{< link "https://docs.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-js/api/#scalecontrol" ScaleControl >}}
      scale = true
      # whether to add {{< link "https://docs.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-js/api/#fullscreencontrol" FullscreenControl >}}
      fullscreen = true
    # {{< version 0.2.0 changed >}} social share links in post page
    [params.page.share]
      enable = true
      Twitter = true
      Facebook = true
      Linkedin = true
      Whatsapp = true
      Pinterest = true
      # Tumblr = true
      HackerNews = true
      # Reddit = true
      # VK = true
      # Buffer = true
      # Xing = true
      # Line = true
      # Instapaper = true
      # Pocket = true
      # Digg = true
      # Stumbleupon = true
      # Flipboard = true
      # Weibo = true
      # Renren = true
      # Myspace = true
      # Blogger = true
      # Baidu = true
      # Odnoklassniki = true
      # Evernote = true
      # Skype = true
      # Trello = true
      # Mix = true
    # {{< version 0.2.0 changed >}} Comment config
    [params.page.comment]
      enable = true
      # {{< link "https://disqus.com/" Disqus >}} comment config
      [params.page.comment.disqus]
        # {{< version 0.1.1 >}}
        enable = false
        # Disqus shortname to use Disqus in posts
        shortname = ""
      # {{< link "https://github.com/gitalk/gitalk" Gitalk >}} comment config
      [params.page.comment.gitalk]
        # {{< version 0.1.1 >}}
        enable = false
        owner = ""
        repo = ""
        clientId = ""
        clientSecret = ""
      # {{< link "https://github.com/xCss/Valine" Valine >}} comment config
      [params.page.comment.valine]
        enable = false
        appId = ""
        appKey = ""
        placeholder = ""
        notify = false
        verify = true
        avatar = "mp"
        meta= ""
        pageSize = 10
        lang = ""
        visitor = true
        recordIP = true
      # {{< link "https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/comments" "Facebook comment" >}} config
      [params.page.comment.facebook]
        enable = false
        width = "100%"
        numPosts = 10
        appId = ""
        languageCode = ""
      # {{< version 0.2.0 >}} {{< link "https://comments.app/" "Telegram comments" >}} config
      [params.page.comment.telegram]
        enable = false
        siteID = ""
        limit = 5
        height = ""
        color = ""
        colorful = true
        dislikes = false
        outlined = false
    # {{< version 0.2.0 >}} SEO config
    [params.page.seo]
      # Publisher info
      [params.page.seo.publisher]
        name = "xxxx"
        [params.page.seo.publisher.logo]
          url = "logo.png"
          width = 127
          height = 40
      # Logo info
      [params.page.seo.logo]
        url = "logo.png"
        width = 127
        height = 40
      # Image info
      [params.page.seo.image]
        url = "cover.png"
        width = 800
        height = 600

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

  # {{< version 0.2.0 >}} Analytics config
  [params.analytics]
    enable = false
    # Google Analytics
    [params.analytics.google]
      id = ""
      # whether to anonymize IP
      anonymizeIP = true
      # whether to use cookie
      cookie = false
    # Fathom Analytics
    [params.analytics.fathom]
      id = ""
      # server url for your tracker if you're self hosting
      server = ""

  # CSS and JS Files CDN config
  [params.cdn]
    # {{< version 0.2.0 >}} {{< link "https://github.com/necolas/normalize.css" "normalize.css" >}}@8.0.1
    normalizeCSS = ''
    # {{< link "https://fontawesome.com/" "fontawesome-free" >}}@5.12.1
    fontawesomeFreeCSS = ''
    # animate.css@3.7.2 https://github.com/daneden/animate.css
    animateCSS = ''
    # {{< link "https://github.com/cferdinandi/smooth-scroll" "smooth-scroll" >}}@16.1.2
    smoothScrollJS = ''
    # {{< version 0.2.0 >}} {{< link "https://github.com/algolia/autocomplete.js" "autocomplete.js" >}}@0.37.1
    autocompleteJS = ''
    # {{< version 0.2.0 >}} {{< link "https://lunrjs.com/" "lunr.js" >}}@2.3.8
    lunrJS = ''
    # {{< version 0.2.0 >}} {{< link "https://github.com/algolia/algoliasearch-client-javascript" "algoliasearch" >}}@4.1.0
    algoliasearchJS = ''
    # {{< link "https://github.com/aFarkas/lazysizes" "lazysizes" >}}@5.2.0
    lazysizesJS = ''
    # {{< link "https://github.com/sachinchoolur/lightgallery.js" "lightgallery.js" >}}@1.1.3 lg-thumbnail@1.1.0 lg-zoom@1.1.0
    lightgalleryCSS = ''
    lightgalleryJS = ''
    lightgalleryThumbnailJS = ''
    lightgalleryZoomJS = ''
    # {{< version 0.2.0 >}} {{< link "https://github.com/zenorocha/clipboard.js" "clipboard.js" >}}@2.0.6
    clipboardJS = ''
    # {{< link "https://github.com/ellisonleao/sharer.js" "sharer" >}}@0.4.0
    sharerJS = ''
    # {{< link "https://github.com/alexmacarthur/typeit" "typeit" >}}@6.5.1
    typeitJS = ''
    # {{< link "https://github.com/KaTeX/KaTeX" "katex" >}}@0.11.1
    katexCSS = ''
    katexJS = ''
    katexAutoRenderJS = ''
    katexCopyTexCSS = ''
    katexCopyTexJS = ''
    katexMhchemJS = ''
    # {{< link "https://github.com/knsv/mermaid" "mermaid" >}}@8.4.8
    mermaidJS = ''
    # {{< link "https://echarts.apache.org/" "echarts" >}}@4.6.0
    echartsJS = ''
    echartsMacaronsJS = ''
    # {{< version 0.2.0 >}} {{< link "https://docs.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-js" mapbox-gl >}}@1.8.1
    mapboxGLCSS = ''
    mapboxGLJS = ''
    # {{< link "https://github.com/MoePlayer/APlayer" "aplayer" >}}@1.10.1
    aplayerCSS = ''
    aplayerJS = ''
    # {{< link "https://github.com/metowolf/MetingJS" "meting" >}}@2.0.1
    metingJS = ''
    # {{< link "https://github.com/gitalk/gitalk" "gitalk" >}}@1.6.2
    gitalkCSS = ''
    gitalkJS = ''
    # {{< link "https://valine.js.org/" "valine" >}}@1.3.10
    valineJS = ''

# Markup related config in Hugo
[markup]
  # {{< link "https://gohugo.io/content-management/syntax-highlighting" "Syntax Highlighting" >}}
  [markup.highlight]
    codeFences = true
    guessSyntax = true
    lineNos = true
    lineNumbersInTable = true
    # false is a necessary configuration
    # ({{< link "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"
  link = ""

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

# {{< link "https://gohugo.io/content-management/urls/#permalinks" "Permalinks config" >}}
[Permalinks]
  # posts = ":year/:month/:filename"
  posts = ":filename"

# {{< link "https://gohugo.io/about/hugo-and-gdpr/" "Privacy config" >}}
[privacy]
  # {{< version 0.2.0 deleted >}} 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]
  # {{< version 0.2.0 changed >}}
  home = ["HTML", "RSS", "JSON"]
  page = ["HTML", "MarkDown"]
  section = ["HTML", "RSS"]
  taxonomy = ["HTML", "RSS"]
  taxonomyTerm = ["HTML"]
```

{{< admonition tip "Tips about CDN Configuration" >}}
Full HTML tags or URLs are supported for CDN configuration:

```toml
smoothScrollJS = '<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/smooth-scroll@16.1.3/dist/smooth-scroll.min.js" integrity="sha256-vP+F+14A1ogChQs5Osd5LJl/ci9TbzjiZjjEbcqOXrY=" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>'
# Or
smoothScrollJS = 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/smooth-scroll@16/dist/smooth-scroll.min.js'
```
{{< /admonition >}}

![Complete configuration preview](/images/theme-documentation-basics/complete-configuration-preview.png "Complete configuration preview")

### 3.2 Favicons, Browserconfig, Manifest

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/](https://realfavicongenerator.net/).

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

### 3.3 Add Logo and Cover for SEO

Add a logo image (127x40) and a cover image (800x600) in the `static` directory.

### 3.4 Style Customization

**LoveIt** 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 `config/css` relative to **your project root directory**.

In `config/css/_override.scss`, you can override the variables in `themes/LoveIt/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 `config/css/_custom.scss`, you can add some css style code to customize the style.

## 4 Multilingual and i18n

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

![Language Switch](/images/theme-documentation-basics/language-switch.gif "Language Switch")

### 4.1 Compatibility {#language-compatibility}

| Language           | Hugo Code | HTML `lang` Attribute | Theme Docs              | Lunr.js Support         |
|:------------------ |:---------:|:---------------------:|:-----------------------:|:-----------------------:|
| English            | `en`      | `en`                  | :(far fa-check-square): | :(far fa-check-square): |
| Simplified Chinese | `zh-cn`   | `zh-CN`               | :(far fa-check-square): | :(far fa-check-square): |
| French             | `fr`      | `fr`                  | :(far fa-square):       | :(far fa-check-square): |
| Polish             | `pl`      | `pl`                  | :(far fa-square):       | :(far fa-square):       |

:(far fa-kiss-wink-heart): **Feel free to [contribute](https://github.com/dillonzq/LoveIt/pulls)!**

### 4.2 Basic Configuration

After learning [how Hugo handle multilingual websites](https://gohugo.io/content-management/multilingual), define your languages in your [site configuration](#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 = ""
      name = "Posts"
      url = "/posts/"
      title = ""
      weight = 1
    [[languages.en.menu.main]]
      identifier = "tags"
      pre = ""
      name = "Tags"
      url = "/tags/"
      title = ""
      weight = 2
    [[languages.en.menu.main]]
      identifier = "categories"
      pre = ""
      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 = ""
      name = "文章"
      url = "/posts/"
      title = ""
      weight = 1
    [[languages.zh-cn.menu.main]]
      identifier = "tags"
      pre = ""
      name = "标签"
      url = "/tags/"
      title = ""
      weight = 2
    [[languages.zh-cn.menu.main]]
      identifier = "categories"
      pre = ""
      name = "分类"
      url = "/categories/"
      title = ""
      weight = 3

  [languages.fr]
    weight = 3
    title = "Mon nouveau site Hugo"
    languageCode = "fr"
    languageName = "Français"
    [[languages.fr.menu.main]]
      identifier = "posts"
      pre = ""
      name = "Postes"
      url = "/posts/"
      title = ""
      weight = 1
    [[languages.fr.menu.main]]
      identifier = "tags"
      pre = ""
      name = "Balises"
      url = "/tags/"
      title = ""
      weight = 2
    [[languages.fr.menu.main]]
      identifier = "categories"
      name = "Catégories"
      pre = ""
      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 three files:

* in English: `my-page.en.md`
* in Chinese: `my-page.zh-cn.md`
* in French: `my-page.fr.md`

{{< admonition >}}
Be aware that only translated pages are displayed in menu. It’s not replaced with default language content.
{{< /admonition >}}

{{< admonition tip >}}
Use [Front Matter parameter](https://gohugo.io/content-management/multilingual/#translate-your-content) to translate urls too.
{{< /admonition >}}

### 4.3 Overwrite Translation Strings

Translations strings are used for common default values used in the theme. Translations are available in [some languages](#language-compatibility), 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/LoveIt/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](https://github.com/dillonzq/LoveIt/pulls) to the theme!

## 5 Search

{{< version 0.2.0 >}}

Based on [Lunr.js](https://lunrjs.com/) or [algolia](https://www.algolia.com/), searching is supported in **LoveIt** theme.

### 5.1 Output Configuration

In order to generate `index.json` for searching, add `JSON` output file type to the `home` of the `outputs` part in your [site configuration](#site-configuration).

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

### 5.2 Search Configuration

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

Here is the search configuration in your [site configuration](#site-configuration):

```toml
[params.search]
  enable = true
  # type of search engine ("lunr", "algolia")
  type = "lunr"
  # index length of the content
  contentLength = 5000
  [params.search.algolia]
    index = ""
    appID = ""
    searchKey = ""
```

{{< admonition note "How to choose the type of search engine?" >}}
* `lunr`: simple, no need to synchronize `index.json`, no limit for `contentLength`,
  but high bandwidth and low performance (Especially for Chinese which needs a large segmentit library)
* `algolia`: high performance and low bandwidth, but need to synchronize `index.json` and limit for `contentLength`
{{< /admonition >}}

{{< admonition tip "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 script may be a better 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`...
{{< /admonition >}}