isabella232 / hugo-theme-novela-1

Novela, the simplest way to start publishing with Hugo and Forestry.

Hugo Novela

A port of Narative's Gatsby theme Novela

Customization

Logo

Add to your projects layout directory your logo's SVG: /layouts/icons/ui/logo.html

Socials

In order for the Socials to be surfaced in Forestry, you should copy the theme's config/_default/social.yaml to your project.

Authors

You should register authors as a taxonomy in your project's `config.yaml``

taxonomies:
  author: authors

Creating authors

Add the following file to your content directory and Front Matter example.

# /content/authors/firstname-lastname/_index.md
---
title: Dennis Brotzky
bio: |
  Written by You. This is where your author bio lives. Share your work, your
  joys and of course, your Twitter handle.
avatar: /images/dennis-brotzky.jpg
featured: true
social:
  - title: unsplash
    url: https://unsplash.com
  - title: github
    url: https://github.com
  - title: github
    url: https://github.com
  - title: github
    url: https://github.com
  - title: github
    url: https://github.com
---

Assigning authors to posts.

Simply add the name of the author to the "authors" field:

authors:
  - Dennis Brotzky
  - Thiago Costa

Newsletter CTA

This theme includes a shortcode for a newsletter callout form that you can add to any page. It uses formspree.io as proxy to send the actual email. Each month, visitors can send you up to one thousand emails without incurring extra charges. Visit the Formspree site to get get going add your Formspree email to your shortcode like this:

{{< subscribe email="[email protected]" >}}