Hugo Whisper Theme
Whisper is a minimal documentation theme built for Hugo. The design and functionality is intentionally minimal.
Theme features
Content Types
- Docs (Markdown)
- Homepage
Content Management
- This theme generates documentation from markdown files located in
content/docs
- The "Home" page is not documentation, it can be used to introduce your project etc.
Features
- Beautiful and clean typography for all semantic HTML elements
SCSS
- SCSS (Hugo Pipelines)
- Responsive design
- Bootstrap 4 grid and media queries only
Speed
- 100/100 Google Lighthouse speed score
- 21KB without images ⚡
- Vanilla JS only
Menu
- Responsive mobile menu managed in
config.toml
Content
- Documentation examples included, using all markdown syntax
Installation
To use this theme you will need to have Hugo installed. If you don't already have Hugo installed please follow the official installation guide
Check Hugo Version
This theme uses Hugo Pipes to compile SCSS and minify assets. Please make sure you have the Hugo Extended
version installed. If you are not using the extended version this theme will not not compile.
hugo version
Create a new Hugo site
hugo new site mynewsite
This will create a fresh Hugo site in the folder mynewsite
.
Install theme
Copy or git clone this theme into the sites themes folder mynewsite/themes
Install with Git
cd mynewsite
git clone https://github.com/jugglerx/hugo-whisper-theme.git themes/hugo-whisper-theme
Install from .zip file
You can download the .zip file located here https://github.com/JugglerX/hugo-whisper-theme/archive/master.zip.
Extract the downloaded .zip inside the themes
folder. Rename the extracted folder from hugo-whisper-theme-master
-> hugo-whisper-theme
. You should end up with the following folder structure mynewsite/themes/hugo-whisper-theme
Add example content
Copy the entire contents of the mynewsite/themes/hugo-whisper-theme/exampleSite/
folder to root folder of your Hugo site, ie mynewsite/
To copy the files using terminal, make sure you are still in the projects root, ie the mynewsite
folder.
cp -a themes/hugo-whisper-theme/exampleSite/. .
Update config.toml
After you copy the config.toml
into the root folder of your Hugo site you will need to update the baseURL
, themesDir
and theme
values in mynewsite/config.toml
baseURL = "/"
themesDir = "themes"
theme = "hugo-whisper-theme"
Run Hugo
After installing the theme for the first time, generate the Hugo site.
You run this command from the root folder of your Hugo site ie mynewsite/
hugo
For local development run Hugo's built-in local server.
hugo server
Now enter localhost:1313
in the address bar of your browser.