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---
weight: 10
title: "Theme Documentation - Basics"
date: 2020-03-06T21:29:01+08:00
description: "Discover what the Hugo - gokarna theme is all about and the core-concepts behind it."
tags: ["installation", "configuration", "markdown"]
type: post
---
Discover what the Hugo - Gokarna theme is all about and the core-concepts behind it.
TODO: Similar intro as in README, opinionated, authors
## 1 Requirements
Thanks to the simplicity of Hugo, [Hugo](https://gohugo.io/) is the only dependency of this theme.
## 2 Installation
The following steps are here to help you initialize your new website. If you dont know Hugo at all, we strongly suggest you learn more about it by following this [great documentation for beginners](https://gohugo.io/getting-started/quick-start/).
### 2.1 Create Your Project
Hugo provides a `new` command to create a new website:
```bash
hugo new site my_website
cd my_website
```
### 2.2 Install the Theme
The themes repository is: [https://github.com/526avijitgupta/gokarna](https://github.com/526avijitgupta/gokarna).
You can download the [latest release :books: .zip file](https://github.com/526avijitgupta/gokarna/releases) of the theme and extract it in the `themes` directory.
Alternatively, clone this repository to the `themes` directory:
```bash
git clone https://github.com/526avijitgupta/gokarna.git themes/gokarna
```
Or, create an empty git repository and make this repository a submodule of your site directory:
```bash
git init
git submodule add https://github.com/526avijitgupta/gokarna.git themes/gokarna
```
### 2.3 Basic Configuration {#basic-configuration}
The following is a basic configuration for the gokarna theme:
```toml
baseURL = "http://example.org/"
defaultContentLanguage = "en"
languageCode = "en"
title = "My New Hugo Site"
theme = "gokarna"
[params]
# URL for the avatar on homepage
avatarURL = ""
# Description to display on homepage
description = "Sky above, sand below & peace within"
# You can use this to inject any HTML in the <head> tag.
# Ideal usecase for this is to import custom js/css or add your analytics snippet
customHeadHTML = ""
# If you want to display posts on the homepage, the options are
# "popular" (order posts by weight), "recent" (order posts by date)
# or "" (do not display, default option)
showPostsOnHomePage = ""
# Footer text
footer = "The Marauders"
[menu]
[[menu.main]]
# Unique identifer for a menu item
identifier = "posts"
url = "/posts/"
# You can add extra information before the name (HTML format is supported), such as icons
pre = ""
# You can add extra information after the name (HTML format is supported), such as icons
post = ""
# Display name
name = "Posts"
# Weights are used to determine the ordering
weight = 1
[[menu.main]]
identifier = "tags"
name = "Tags"
url = "/tags/"
weight = 2
[[menu.main]]
identifier = "github"
url = "https://github.com"
weight = 3
# We use feather-icons
pre = "<span data-feather='github'></span>"
```
### 2.4 Create Your First Post
Here is the way to create your first post:
```bash
hugo new posts/first_post.md
```
Feel free to edit the post file by adding some sample content and replacing the title value in the beginning of the file.
For posts you need to add `type: "post"` in the markdown metadata. We currently support 2 types of content:
1. Post (`type: "post"`): A normal blog-post with tags, date, & content.
2. Page (`type: "page"`): A standalone content page that will just render the markdown you wrote. You can use it to write custom pages which should not be a part of posts. Like, showing your projects portfolio. You can read in detail about this on the [Theme Documentation - Advanced](/link-TODO) page.
By default all posts and pages are created as a draft. If you want to render these pages, remove the property `draft: true` from the metadata, set the property `draft: false` or add `-D`/`--buildDrafts` parameter to `hugo` command.
### 2.5 Launching the Website Locally
Launch by using the following command:
```bash
hugo serve
```
Go to `http://localhost:1313`.
### 2.6 Build the Website
When your site is ready to deploy, run the following command:
```bash
hugo
```
A `public` folder will be generated, containing all static content and assets for your website. It can now be deployed on any web server.
The website can be automatically published and hosted with [Netlify](https://www.netlify.com/) (Read more about [Automated HUGO deployments with Netlify](https://www.netlify.com/blog/2015/07/30/hosting-hugo-on-netlifyinsanely-fast-deploys/)).
Alternatively, you can use [AWS Amplify](https://gohugo.io/hosting-and-deployment/hosting-on-aws-amplify/), [Github pages](https://gohugo.io/hosting-and-deployment/hosting-on-github/), [Render](https://gohugo.io/hosting-and-deployment/hosting-on-render/) and more...
## 3 Configuration
### 3.1 Site Configuration {#site-configuration}
In addition to [Hugo global configuration](https://gohugo.io/overview/configuration/) and [menu configuration](#basic-configuration), **gokarna** lets you define the following parameters in your site configuration (here is a `config.toml`, whose values are default).
Please open the code block below to view the complete sample configuration :(far fa-hand-point-down fa-fw)::
```toml
[params]
version = "1.0.X"
# site description
description = "This is My New Hugo Site"
# site keywords
keywords = ["Theme", "Hugo"]
# site default theme ("light", "dark", "auto")
defaultTheme = "auto"
# public git repo url only then enableGitInfo is true
gitRepo = ""
# ("sha256", "sha384", "sha512", "md5")
fingerprint = ""
dateFormat = "2006-01-02"
# website images for Open Graph and Twitter Cards
images = ["/logo.png"]
SourceMap = true
[params.pwa]
# whether to enable PWA support
enable = true
# service-worker version
version = "1.0.1"
[params.app]
# optional site title override for the app when added to an iOS home screen or Android launcher
title = "gokarna"
# whether to omit favicon resource links
noFavicon = false
# modern SVG favicon to use in place of older style .png and .ico files
svgFavicon = ""
# Android browser theme color
themeColor = "#ffffff"
# Safari mask icon color
iconColor = "#5bbad5"
# Windows v8-10 tile color
tileColor = "#da532c"
[params.search]
enable = true
# type of search engine ("lunr", "algolia")
# Header config
[params.header]
# desktop header mode ("fixed", "normal", "auto")
desktopMode = "fixed"
# mobile header mode ("fixed", "normal", "auto")
mobileMode = "auto"
[params.header.title]
# URL of the LOGO
logo = ""
rss = true
```
### 3.2 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`. Theyre easily created via [https://realfavicongenerator.net/](https://realfavicongenerator.net/).