slick — Hugo Starter Template

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# Slick

A Hugo theme focused on content, cleanliness, speed, responsiveness and privacy.

> Slick is a fork of [Temple](https://github.com/aos/temple) with many
  improvements.

…

> Temple is a fork of [Nofancy](https://github.com/gizak/nofancy) with many
  improvements.

## Table of Contents

* [Features](#features)
* [Installation](#installation)
* [Customizing](#customizing)
* [Components](#components)
* [Development](#development)
* [Contributing](#contributing)
* [License](#license)
* [Images](#images)

## Features

The main features of this theme include:

* Supports taxonomies of tags, categories and series with their own pages
* Pagination of content lists
* RSS Feed with complete entries
* [Open Graph](http://ogp.me),
  [Schema.org](https://schema.org) and
  [Twitter Cards](https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/optimize-with-cards/overview/abouts-cards.html)
  support
* Fully customizable menu entries in the header
* Footer with fully customizable links and RSS
* Customizable favicon (with correct mime type for png files)
  and ability to inject own css file
* Dark mode for CSS
* Relies on chroma for syntax highlighting
* Not even one external request (privacy!) - Everything needed is part of this
  theme (Fonts, CSS, JS, ...)
* 404 page with customizable text

## Installation

Just download the theme or clone it into
your ``themes/`` directory:

```sh
cd themes && git clone https://github.com/spookey/slick.git
```

Then reference it in your ``config``:

```toml
theme = "slick"
```

Or when building the site, pass it in to the CLI:

```sh
hugo -t slick
```

To setup the 404 page please read the
[instructions](https://gohugo.io/templates/404/#automatic-loading).

## Customizing

Your ``config`` file will hold all your options.

Please have a look into the subfolders of ``_sites`` for working examples.
It is highly recommended to make some adjustments to the ``main``
and the ``footer`` menu (e.g. to link to your **About** page).

## Components

* [PureCSS](https://purecss.io/)
* [Source Code Pro](https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/source-code-pro)
* [Source Sans Pro](https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/source-sans-pro)
* [Source Serif Pro](https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/source-serif-pro)
* [Tomorrow Theme](https://github.com/chriskempson/tomorrow-theme)
  as color scheme (Tomorrow Night for syntax highlighting)

**Please Note**:
Files inside the [static] folder are only updated on tagged commits (releases).

## Development

This theme uses
[rollup.js](https://rollupjs.org) and [postCSS](https://postcss.org)
to bundle all files together.
JavaScript is compiled from [TypeScript](http://www.typescriptlang.org).
[Components](#components) are drawn in by [npm](https://www.npmjs.com).

Please have a look inside [package.json] for commands and tools required
for building.

Use ``npm version`` to tag a commit.

## Contributing

Contributions are welcome.

### Features/Enhancements

If you are adding a feature, fork the repository, create a new branch
for your feature and submit a PR.
Please make sure to put documentation for your new feature:

* Place a comment about what your feature is doing above the code.
* If making additions that will affect the ``config`` file, make sure
  you update the [config.toml] and [config.yaml] below the ``_sites`` folder
  as well as the [CHANGELOG.md].

### Issues/Bugs

Submit a new issue with information about your issue and/or bug. If you
have a solution, then submit a new PR with the guidelines posted above in the
**features** section and link your issue to it using the keyword
"[*closes*](https://help.github.com/articles/closing-issues-using-keywords/)".

## License

Licensed under the MIT License. See the [LICENSE].

## Images

### Screenshot

![Screenshot](https://github.com/spookey/slick/raw/main/images/screenshot.png)

### Thumbnail

![Thumbnail](https://github.com/spookey/slick/raw/main/images/tn.png)

[CHANGELOG.md]:     https://github.com/spookey/slick/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
[config.toml]:      https://github.com/spookey/slick/blob/main/_sites/example/config.toml
[config.yaml]:      https://github.com/spookey/slick/blob/main/_sites/changelog/config.yaml
[LICENSE]:          https://github.com/spookey/slick/blob/main/LICENSE
[package.json]:     https://github.com/spookey/slick/blob/main/package.json
[static]:           https://github.com/spookey/slick/blob/main/static