Toha

A Hugo theme for a personal portfolio with minimalist design and responsiveness.

Example Site: Toha Example Site

Features

• Minimalist Design
• Fully Responsive
• Carefully designed cards
• Great Experience timeline
• Achievement gallery
• Sidebar to categorize posts
• Short Codes
• Google Analytics Support
• Disqus Comment Support

For more details about the features please visit here.

Requirements

• Hugo Version 0.68.0 or higher

Installation

• Create your site if you haven't already

hugo new site my-site -f=yaml
cd my-site
git init

• Add the theme as git sub-module

git submodule add https://github.com/hossainemruz/toha.git themes/toha

Don't use SSH URL of the theme during adding as git sub-module. Also, don't clone the theme in your themes directory using git clone. They don't work well with Github Action or Netlify.

If you want to customize the theme templates, then fork it and use the fork as your theme.

Configuration

Configure your config.yaml file of your site as below:

baseURL: http://example.org/
languageCode: en-us
title: "Toha"
theme: "toha"

# Allow raw html in markdown file
markup:
  goldmark:
    renderer:
      unsafe: true
  tableOfContents:
    startLevel: 2
    endLevel: 6
    ordered: false

# Enable Google Analytics
googleAnalytics: UA-XXXXXXXXX-X

# Enable Disqus forum
disqusShortname: does-not-exist

# Enable global emoji support
enableEmoji: true

# Custom parameters
params:
  # Copyright Notice
  copyright: © 2020 Copyright.

  # Meta description for your site.  This will help the search engines to find your site.
  description: Portfolio and personal blog of Jane Doe.

  # background image of the landing page
  background: "images/background.jpg"

  # Provide logos for your site. The inverted logo will be used in the initial
  # transparent navbar and the main logo will be used in the non-transparent navbar.
  # It will be default to the theme logos if not provided.
  logo:
    main: /assets/images/main-logo.png
    inverted: /assets/images/inverted-logo.png

  # GitHub repo URL of your site
  gitRepo: https://github.com/hossainemruz/toha-example-site

  # specify whether you want to write blog post or not
  enableBlogPost: true

  # specify whether you want to show Table of Contents in reading page
  enableTOC: true

  # specify the list of custom menus that you want to show in the top navbar.
  # they will be separated by a divider from the main menus.
  customMenus:
  - name: Notes
    url: https://hossainnotes.netlify.app/docs/example/

  # Provide newsletter configuration. This feature hasn't been implemented yet.
  # Currently, you can just hide it from the footer.
  newsletter:
    enable: true

  # some information about you
  author:
    name: "Jane Doe"
    nickname: "Jane"
    image: "images/avatar.png"
    # greeting message before your name. it will default to "Hi! I am" if not provided
    greeting: "Hi, I am"
    # give your some contact information. they will be used in the footer
    contactInfo:
      email: "janedoe@example.com"
      phone: "+0123456789"
    # a summary of what you do
    summary:
    - I am a Developer
    - I work with Go
    - I love to work with some fun projects

You can just copy the content for config.yaml files from theme/toha/exampleSite/config.yaml.

If you want to customize the any of the CSS styles on your site, create a static/assets/css/style.css file and add any custom CSS there.

Usage

Run your hugo site with this theme.

hugo server -w

When you first run your site, it will start with the default parameters. It should look similar to the example site except it will not have any sections in the homepage. Those sections are added via some data files.

You can configure your site by following the step by step guides from here.

Shortcodes

Here, are some handy shortcodes you can use with this theme.

• img
• split
• vs
• alert

Project Roadmap

Here, are the current plan and progress of various components of this theme. The components will be prioritized based on users requests.

Sections

• Home

  • Configurable Background
  • Author Image
  • Greeting
  • Typing Carousel

• About

  • Name and Designation
  • Summary
    • Markdown Support
  • Social Links
    • Font Awesome Support
  • Resume Link
  • Soft Skills Indicator

• Skills

  • Skill Cards
  • Markdown Support

• Experiences

  • Designation
  • Timeline
  • Company Overview
  • Responsibilities

• Projects

  • Category Filter
  • Project Card
    • Overview
      • Markdown Support
    • Github Stars
    • External URL Support
    • Technology Tags

• Recent Posts

• Publications

  • Category Filter
  • Card
  • Abstract
  • Authors
  • Tags
  • Links
  • Gallery

• Accomplishment / Courses

  • Overview
  • Certificate

• Achievements Gallery

  • Image
  • Summary

List Page

• Post Cards
• Sidebar
• Pagination

Reading Page

• Hero Image
• Author Information
• Next & Previous Page Navigation
• Improve This Page Button
• Disqus Comment
• Option to navigate to list page

Tracking and Comments

• Google Analytics
• Disqus Comment

Shortcodes

• Image
• Split Page into Multiple Column
• Vertical space between two sections
• Alert
• Figure & sub-figure
• Tabs

Contributing

You can contribute to this theme in various way. You can report a bug, file an feature request, send a PR, share your thoughts etc.

Pull requests are most welcomed and I will be happy to review. Just follow the following principles:

• Keep it simple.
• Keep it consistent with the design.
• Use as little dependency as possible.
• Have patient.

I am not a web developer. I just created this theme for my personal needs. So, it is reasonable to have some flaws in the codes. Feel free to open issues and PR acknowledging the problems.

Attribution

• Thanks Anup Deb for his design guidance.
• Many of the illustrations have been taken from iconscout.