LoveIt Hugo Theme

LoveIt is a clean, elegant, simple but not simpler blog theme for Hugo based on the original LeaveIt Theme and KeepIt Theme developed by Dillon.

Demo

To see this theme in action, Here is a live demo site which is rendered with this theme.

People that are using LoveIt:

• Dillon

Features

• Optimized for performance: 99/100 on mobile and 100/100 on desktop in Google PageSpeed Insights
• Optimized SEO performance with a correct SEO SCHEMA based on JSON-LD
• A More coerent style beetwen page and sections
• Multilanguage support
• Pagination support
• Google Analytics support
• Disqus Comment System
• Gitalk Comment System
• Valine Comment System
• Gravatar Support
• Local Avatar Support
• Share post support
• Search engine verification support (Google, Bind, Yandex and Baidu)
• Added configuration file for use on Netlify
• Dark/Light mode
• Up to 54 social sites supported out-of-the-box see the list here
• Translation ready
• Wrap Image with Figure Tag without Shortcode. Thanks Junian.Net
• Load images with Lazy Load By lazysizes
• Automatically highlighting code By Google code-prettify, Customizable styles via CSS. See the themes gallery.
• Automagical image gallery with lightGallery
• ...

Getting Started

Clone this repository to your hugo theme directory.

  cd themes
  git clone https://github.com/dillonzq/LoveIt.git

Next, open config.toml in the base of the Hugo site and ensure the theme option is set to KeepIt:

  theme = "LoveIt"

For more information read the official setup guide of Hugo.

Site Configuration

Take a look in the exampleSite folder.

This directory contains an example config file and the content for the demo. It serves as an example setup for your documentation.

Copy the config.toml in the root directory of your website. Overwrite the existing config file if necessary.

Content Suggestions

A few suggestions to help you get a good looking site quickly:

• Keep blog posts in the content/posts directory, for example: content/posts/my-first-post.md
• Keep static pages in the content directory, for example: content/about.md
• Keep media like images in the static directory, for example: static/images/2019/10/screenshot.png

Customizing styles for your website

If you want to change some styling to fit your own website needs, you can edit them:

• assets/css/_varibales/default.scss: You can override the variables in _variables.scss to customize the style
• assets/css/_custom.scss : You can put your custom css in this file

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/.

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

Tips

Set production environment when generating site

Because some functions are only in production mode, So you need to add a production environment variables when generating your site.

  HUGO_ENV=production hugo --gc --minify

Hugo “extended” Sass/SCSS version required

This theme write style with scss, So you must download and install the “extended” Sass/SCSS version

How to toggle dark-light mode

• You can click the sun logo to toggle dark-light mode. In the desktop version the sun logo is to the right and in the mobile version is positioned to the left, close to the site title.
• If you want to make your own theme toggle-able element, you can create an element with a class .theme-switch. See here

Home Post model

If you want to show posts on index instead of a personal profile, just open config.toml in the base of the Hugo site, add the following line to config.toml

  [params]
  home_mode = "post" # post or other

Add logo and cover for SEO

Add a logo image (127x40) and a cover image (800x600). This images are used for SEO.

Questions, ideas, bugs, pull requests

All feedback is welcome! Head over to the issue tracker.

For more configuration info or other tips you can see the wiki.

License

LeaveIt is licensed under the MIT license. Check the LICENSE file for details. The following resources are included in the theme:

• lazysizes
• lightGallery
• code-prettify

Author

Dillon

See Also

• Hermitt
• Goa