Hugo FixIt Blog Template (Go)

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This is a quick start template for Hugo theme FixIt. It uses Hugo Modules feature to load the theme. If you favor Git more, you can check this template.

It comes with a basic theme structure and configuration directory¹. GitHub action has been set up to deploy the blog to a public GitHub page automatically. Also, there's a cron job to update the theme automatically everyday.

Directory structure

▸ .github/       # GitHub configuration
▸ archetypes/    # page archetypes (like scaffolds of archetypes)
▸ assets/        # css, js, third-party libraries etc.
▸ config/        # configuration files
▸ content/       # markdown files for hugo project
▸ data/          # blog data (allow: yaml, json, toml), e.g. friends.yml
▸ public/        # build directory
▸ static/        # static files, e.g. favicon.ico
▸ themes/        # theme submodules
▸ go.mod
▸ go.sum

Quick Start

For a complete quick start, see this page.

Prerequisites

• Go
• Hugo (extended version)

Use Template

CLI

npx fixit-cli create my-blog

Manual

1. Click Use this template, and create your repository on GitHub.

   

2. Once the repository is created, just clone and enjoy it!

   # Clone with your own repository url
   git clone --recursive https://github.com/<your_name>/<your_blog_repo>.git
   

Tip

The repository name determines your GitHub Pages URL, for example:

Repository Name	GitHub Pages
<your_name>.github.io	https://<your_name>.github.io/
blog	https://<your_name>.github.io/blog/

Launching the Site

# Development environment
hugo server
# Production environment
hugo server -e production

Build the Site

When your site is ready to deploy, run the following command:

hugo

Deploy to GitHub Pages

Note

You may have noticed that the first automatic deployment of GitHub Actions after the template initialization failed. This is because you have not configured Workflow permissions and GitHub Pages.

1. Head to Setting => Actions => General => Workflow permissions => Check "Read and write permissions".
2. GitHub Pages settings: Setting => Pages => Source: GitHub Actions.
3. Modify config/_default/hugo.toml file baseURL to your site URL.
4. Commit the changes from the previous step to the main branch, and GitHub Actions will automatically build and deploy the site to GitHub Pages.

Update Theme

Afterwards you can upgrade the theme with the following command:

# Update theme manually
hugo mod get -u github.com/hugo-fixit/FixIt@latest
hugo mod tidy

Start via NPM script

# build the blog
npm run build
# run a local debugging server with watch
npm run server
# run a local debugging server in production environment
npm run server:production
# update theme submodules
npm run update:theme

Troubleshooting

remote: Permission to git denied to github-actions[bot].

Head to Setting => Actions => General => Workflow permissions => Check "Read and write permissions".

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1. Instead of a single site configuration file, split your configuration by environment, root configuration key, and language. ↩︎