Cactus is a minimalistic theme for bloggers based on the default theme of the same-named Cactus static site generator written in Python and Nick Balestra's Jekyll port. Noteworthy features of this Hugo theme are the integration of a comment-system powered by Disqus, a customizable about page, support for RSS feeds, syntax highlighting for source code, and sharing options for blog posts.
Inside the folder of your Hugo site, run:
$ cd themes
$ git clone https://github.com/digitalcraftsman/hugo-cactus-theme.git
For more information, please read Hugo's official setup guide.
Take a look inside the exampleSite folder of this theme. You'll find a file called config.toml.
To use it, copy the config.toml file to the root folder of your Hugo site. Feel free to change the strings as you like to customize your website.
Make sure to update the themesDir property in the config file to point to your site's theme folder, otherwise an error will be thrown indicating the themes folder is unable to be found.
Use the about page to introduce yourself to your visitors. You can customize the content as you like in the config.toml. Furthermore, you should replace the avatar placeholder with a great image of yourself.
This theme features a comment system powered by Disqus too. Just add your Disqus-shortname to the config.toml and let readers respond to your blog posts.
You can add a social link panel in the footer by adding entries to the social block in the config.toml. You can choose between two icon fonts:
Assign either font-awesome or mono-social to the iconFont variable. The Mono social icons offer three styles of icons: circle, rounded, or default (empty).
To see your site in action, run Hugo's built-in local server.
$ hugo server
Now enter localhost:1313 in the address bar of your browser.
Found a bug or got an idea for a new feature? Feel free to use the issue tracker to let me know. Or directly make a pull request.
Please create a separate branch for your pull request.
This theme is released under the MIT license. For more information read the license.
Thanks to
- Nick Balestra for creating the original theme
- Steve Francia for creating Hugo and the awesome community around the project.