liftedkilt / tale-hugo

A port of the Tale theme for Hugo. Tale is a minimal theme curated for storytellers.

Credit

This is a fork of the wonderful Hugo theme Tale, from https://github.com/EmielH/tale-hugo . I have simply modified it slightly for my own personal use. Probably nothing much here for the normal user, so I would recommend using the upstream repo.

Tale

This is a port of the Tale theme for Jekyll to Hugo. Tale is a minimal Jekyll theme curated for storytellers. Checkout the demo here. I did not design this theme; I only ported it from Jekyll to Hugo.

Installation

1. Install the theme

If your site is also under version control using git, the easiest way to install this theme is to add it as a submodule. If you have not created a git repo for your project yet, you need to run git init beforehand. Inside the folder of your Hugo site, run the following command.

git submodule add https://github.com/EmielH/tale-hugo.git themes/tale

Alternatively, you can clone the theme into your project.

git clone https://github.com/EmielH/tale-hugo.git themes/tale

2. Configure Hugo

Add the following line to config.toml to tell Hugo to use the theme.

theme = "tale"

Alternatively, you can tell Hugo to use the theme with the server command.

hugo server -t tale

Additional information

For more information, read the official setup guide of Hugo.

Update the theme

If you have installed the theme as a git submodule, you can update the theme by issuing the following command inside your project folder.

git submodule update --remote --rebase

If you have cloned the theme, you can run git pull inside the theme folder.

Acknowledgments

Thanks

• to Chester How for creating the original Tale theme for Jekyll,
• to onedrawingperday, bep and digitalcraftsman for their help in getting the theme working correctly with Hugo,
• to lucperkins for the Fresh theme from which I used some useful snippets of code.

License

See LICENSE.