github-style — Hugo Blog Template

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2026-10-02T10:30:58.370Z

# github-style

## Init hugo site

```bash
hugo new site mysite
cd mysite
```

## Install the theme

```bash
git submodule add [email protected]:MeiK2333/github-style.git themes/github-style
```

## Update the theme

If you just installed the theme, it is already in the latest version. If not, you can update using the below commands

```bash
cd themes/github-style
git pull
```

Then, you need to rename the previous `posts` folder to `post`

```bash
cd <you-project-folder>
mv content/posts content/post
```

## Setup readme

```bash
hugo new readme.md
echo '`Hello World!`' > content/readme.md
```

## Pin post

```
---
pin: true
---
```

## Add new post

Hugo will create a post with `draft: true`, change it to false in order for it to show in the website.

```
hugo new post/title_of_the_post.md
```

## Limit display content

### Approach 1: use summary

```
---
title: "title"
date: 2019-10-22T18:46:47+08:00
draft: false
summary: "The summary content"
---
```

### Approach 2: use `<!--more-->`

Use `<!--more-->` to separate content that will display in the posts page as abstraction and the rest of the content. This is different from summary, as summary will not appear in the post.
```
---
title: "title"
date: 2019-10-22T18:46:47+08:00
draft: false
---
abstraction show in the post page
<!--more-->
other content
```

## Add last modified date

add to `config.toml`

```toml
lastmod = true

[frontmatter]
  lastmod = ["lastmod", ":fileModTime", ":default"]
```

## Use [gitalk](https://github.com/gitalk/gitalk) to support comments

add to `config.toml`

```toml
enableGitalk = true

  [params.gitalk]
    clientID = "Your client ID"
    clientSecret = "Your client secret"
    repo = "repo"
    owner = "Your Github username"
    admin = "Your Github username"
    id = "location.pathname"
    labels = "gitalk"
    perPage = 30
    pagerDirection = "last"
    createIssueManually = true
    distractionFreeMode = false
```

## Support LaTeX

In you post add `math: true` to [front matter](https://gohugo.io/content-management/front-matter/)

```
---
katex: math
---
```

Then the [katex script](https://katex.org/docs/autorender.html) will auto render the string enclosed by delimiters.

```
# replace ... with latex formula
display inline \\( ... \\)
display block $$ ... $$
```

![latex example](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MeiK2333/github-style/master/images/latex_example.png)

## Support MathJax
you can add MathJax:true to frontmatter

```
mathJax: true
```

## Custom CSS and JS

Add your files in the static folder and list them in the custom_css and custom_js parameters

For example, with static/css/custom.css and static/js/custom.js, add to `config.toml`

```toml
[params]
  custom_css = ["css/custom.css"]
  custom_js = ["js/custom.js"]
  # custom script with defer attribute
  defer_custom_js = ["js/defer_custom.js"]
```

## config.toml example

```toml
baseURL = "https://meik2333.com/"
languageCode = "zh-cn"
title = "MeiK's blog"
theme = "github-style"
pygmentsCodeFences = true
pygmentsUseClasses = true

[params]
  author = "MeiK"
  description = "In solitude, where we are least alone."
  github = "MeiK2333"
  facebook = "MeiK2333"
  twitter = "MeiK2333"
  linkedin = "MeiK2333"
  instagram = "MeiK2333"
  tumblr = "MeiK2333"
  email = "[email protected]"
  url = "https://meik2333.com"
  keywords = "blog, google analytics"
  rss = true
  lastmod = true
  userStatusEmoji = "😀"
  favicon = "/images/github.png"
  avatar = "/images/avatar.png"
  headerIcon = "/images/GitHub-Mark-Light-32px.png"
  location = "China"
  enableGitalk = true
  custom_css = ["css/custom.css"]
  custom_js = ["js/custom.js"]

  [params.gitalk]
    clientID = "Your client ID"
    clientSecret = "Your client secret"
    repo = "repo"
    owner = "MeiK2333"
    admin = "MeiK2333"
    id = "location.pathname"
    labels = "gitalk"
    perPage = 15
    pagerDirection = "last"
    createIssueManually = true
    distractionFreeMode = false

  [[params.links]]
    title = "Link"
    href = "https://github.com/meik2333"
  [[params.links]]
    title = "Link2"
    href = "https://meik2333.com"
    icon = "https://meik2333.com/images/avatar.png"

[frontmatter]
  lastmod = ["lastmod", ":fileModTime", ":default"]

[services]
  [services.googleAnalytics]
    ID = "UA-123456-789"

```

## Support collapsible block

You can create a collapsible block like this:

```
{{<details "summary title">}}

block content

{{</details>}}
```

And it will show like this:

<details>
  <summary>summary title</summary>
  <p>block content</p>
</details>

## Support local search

add to `config.toml`

```toml
[params]
  enableSearch = true

[outputs]
  home = ["html", "json"]

[outputFormats.json]
  mediaType = "application/json"
  baseName = "index"
  isPlainText = false
```

We can do local search now, it is implemented by `fuse.js`.

## deploy.sh example

There are various way to deploy to github, here is a link to official [document](https://gohugo.io/hosting-and-deployment/hosting-on-github/).

Here is an sample. Note line 22 have `env HUGO_ENV="production"`, makes sure googleAnalysis is loaded during production, but is not loaded when we are testing it in localhost.

```bash
#!/bin/sh

if [ "`git status -s`" ]
then
    echo "The working directory is dirty. Please commit any pending changes."
    exit 1;
fi

echo "Deleting old publication"
rm -rf public
mkdir public
git worktree prune
rm -rf .git/worktrees/public/

echo "Checking out gh-pages branch into public"
git worktree add -B gh-pages public origin/gh-pages

echo "Removing existing files"
rm -rf public/*

echo "Generating site"
env HUGO_ENV="production" hugo -t github-style

echo "Updating gh-pages branch"
cd public && git add --all && git commit -m "Publishing to gh-pages (publish.sh)"

#echo "Pushing to github"
#git push --all
```

Then you can verify the site is working and use `git push --all` to push the change to github. If you don't want to check again every time, you can uncomment the `#git push --all` in the script.

## TODO

- 重写标题导航，那玩意儿引入的 JS 在控制台报错。