template customization 1

3 mins read · October 11, 2024

First theme customization of a new Hugo site following initial setting.

In previous post with title first post again customization is only in layouts/partials/footer.html. Here more customizations in various files are given.

Create content of layouts/posts/single.html is as follow.

{{ define "main" }}
  <h1>{{ .Title }}</h1>

  {{ $dateMachine := .Date | time.Format "2006-01-02T15:04:05-07:00" }}
  {{ $dateHuman := .Date | time.Format ":date_long" }}

  {{- range .Params.authors }}
    {{- with $.Site.GetPage "taxonomyTerm" (printf "authors/%s" (urlize .)) }}
      <figure class='authors'>
        <!--img src="{{ .Params.photo }}" alt=""/ -->
        <figcaption>
          <a href="{{ .Permalink }}">{{ .Params.name }}</a>
        </figcaption>
      </figure>
    {{ end }}
  {{ end }}

  <div class='readingtimedate'>
    {{ partial "reading-time.html" . }} &middot;
    <time datetime="{{ $dateMachine }}">{{ $dateHuman }}</time>
  </div>

  {{ .Content }}
  {{ partial "terms.html" (dict "taxonomy" "tags" "page" .) }}

  {{ partial "posts/math.html" . }}
{{ end }}

Create content of layouts/partials/reading-time.html is as follow.

{{ .ReadingTime }} min{{ if (ne .ReadingTime 1) }}s{{ end }} read

Create content of layouts/partials/posts/math.html is as follow.

{{- if or (.Params.math) (.Site.Params.math) (.Params.katex) (.Site.Params.katex) -}}

  <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/katex@0.16.4/dist/katex.min.css"
    integrity="sha384-vKruj+a13U8yHIkAyGgK1J3ArTLzrFGBbBc0tDp4ad/EyewESeXE/Iv67Aj8gKZ0" crossorigin="anonymous">
  {{/* The loading of KaTeX is deferred to speed up page rendering */}}
  <script defer src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/katex@0.16.4/dist/katex.min.js"
    integrity="sha384-PwRUT/YqbnEjkZO0zZxNqcxACrXe+j766U2amXcgMg5457rve2Y7I6ZJSm2A0mS4" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>

<!--
url https://github.com/KaTeX/KaTeX/tree/main/contrib/mhchem [20240412]
-->
<script defer src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/katex@0.16.10/dist/contrib/mhchem.min.js" integrity="sha384-ifpG+NlgMq0kvOSGqGQxW1mJKpjjMDmZdpKGq3tbvD3WPhyshCEEYClriK/wRVU0"  crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
<!-- -->    

  <script defer src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/katex@0.16.4/dist/contrib/auto-render.min.js"
    integrity="sha384-+VBxd3r6XgURycqtZ117nYw44OOcIax56Z4dCRWbxyPt0Koah1uHoK0o4+/RRE05" crossorigin="anonymous"
    onload="renderMathInElement(document.body,
      {
        delimiters: [
          {left: '$$', right: '$$', display:true},
          {left: '$', right: '$', display:false},
          {left: '\\(', right: '\\)', display: false},
          {left: '\\[', right: '\\]', display: true}
        ]
      }
    );"></script>
{{- end -}}

Create content of layouts/_default/baseof.html is as follow.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="{{ or site.Language.LanguageCode site.Language.Lang }}" dir="{{ or site.Language.LanguageDirection `ltr` }}">
<head>
  {{ partial "head.html" . }}
</head>
<body>
  <header>
    {{ partial "header.html" . }}

    {{ if .HasShortcode "blank/scatter" }}
      {{ partial "script/inner.html" . }}
      {{ partial "script/chartjs.html" . }}
    {{ end }}

    {{ if .HasShortcode "blank/svgpath" }}
      {{ partial "script/inner.html" . }}
    {{ end }}
  </header>
  <main>
    {{ block "main" . }}{{ end }}
  </main>
  <footer>
    {{ partial "footer.html" . }}
  </footer>

  {{ if .Store.Get "hasMermaid" }}
    <script type="module">
      import mermaid from 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/mermaid/dist/mermaid.esm.min.mjs';
      mermaid.initialize({ startOnLoad: true });
    </script>
  {{ end }}
</body>
</html>

Create content of layouts/_default/_markup/render-codeblock-mermaid.html as follow.

<pre class="mermaid">
  {{- .Inner | safeHTML }}
</pre>
{{ .Page.Store.Set "hasMermaid" true }}

Create content of content/authors/viridi/_index.md as follow.

+++
name = 'Sparisoma Viridi'
twitter = '@6unpnp'
+++
Sparisoma Viridi is granular physicist who likes doing programming.

Without Step 6 for an author page, even when Step 1 is performed, the link will not be shown in a post. Step 4 is for including any partials by checking first the existance of the related shortcodes files. And support for Mermaid in Step 5 is performed using code block render hooks ¹ instead of shortcodes ². There is also support for a KaTeX extension, mhchem ³

Hugo Authors, “Code block render hooks”, Hugo, 14 Jun 2024, url https://gohugo.io/render-hooks/code-blocks/ [20241012]. ↩︎
Navendu Pattekkat, “Adding Diagrams to Your Hugo Blog With Mermaid”, Navendu.me, 26 Aug 2022, url https://navendu.me/posts/adding-diagrams-to-your-hugo-blog-with-mermaid/ [20241012]. ↩︎
KaTeX Contributors, “mhchem extension”, KaTeX, GitHub, 2 Jul 2024, url https://github.com/KaTeX/KaTeX/tree/main/contrib/mhchem [20241012]. ↩︎

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