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Bjørn Erik Pedersen
80230f26a3
Add support for theme composition and inheritance
This commit adds support for theme composition and inheritance in Hugo.

With this, it helps thinking about a theme as a set of ordered components:

```toml
theme = ["my-shortcodes", "base-theme", "hyde"]
```

The theme definition example above in `config.toml` creates a theme with the 3 components with presedence from left to right.

So, Hugo will, for any given file, data entry etc., look first in the project, and then in `my-shortcode`, `base-theme` and lastly `hyde`.

Hugo uses two different algorithms to merge the filesystems, depending on the file type:

* For `i18n` and `data` files, Hugo merges deeply using the translation id and data key inside the files.
* For `static`, `layouts` (templates) and `archetypes` files, these are merged on file level. So the left-most file will be chosen.

The name used in the `theme` definition above must match a folder in `/your-site/themes`, e.g. `/your-site/themes/my-shortcodes`. There are  plans to improve on this and get a URL scheme so this can be resolved automatically.

Also note that a component that is part of a theme can have its own configuration file, e.g. `config.toml`. There are currently some restrictions to what a theme component can configure:

* `params` (global and per language)
* `menu` (global and per language)
* `outputformats` and `mediatypes`

The same rules apply here: The left-most param/menu etc. with the same ID will win. There are some hidden and experimental namespace support in the above, which we will work to improve in the future, but theme authors are encouraged to create their own namespaces to avoid naming conflicts.

A final note: Themes/components can also have a `theme` definition in their `config.toml` and similar, which is the "inheritance" part of this commit's title. This is currently not supported by the Hugo theme site. We will have to wait for some "auto dependency" feature to be implemented for that to happen, but this can be a powerful feature if you want to create your own theme-variant based on others.

Fixes #4460
Fixes #4450
2018-06-10 23:55:20 +02:00
Bjørn Erik Pedersen
0a81a6b4ba output: Fall back to unstranslated base template
Fixes #3893
2017-11-17 13:08:18 +01:00
Bjørn Erik Pedersen
f88fe312cb output: Fix taxonomy term base template lookup
To make sure it uses the base templates in _default as a last resort.

Fixes #3856
2017-09-03 11:32:26 +02:00
Bjørn Erik Pedersen
077005e514 output: Fix base theme vs project base template logic
Fixes #3323
2017-04-13 11:19:54 +02:00
Bjørn Erik Pedersen
8b5b558bb5 tpl: Rework to handle both text and HTML templates
Before this commit, Hugo used `html/template` for all Go templates.

While this is a fine choice for HTML and maybe also RSS feeds, it is painful for plain text formats such as CSV, JSON etc.

This commit fixes that by using the `IsPlainText` attribute on the output format to decide what to use.

A couple of notes:

* The above requires a nonambiguous template name to type mapping. I.e. `/layouts/_default/list.json` will only work if there is only one JSON output format, `/layouts/_default/list.mytype.json` will always work.
* Ambiguous types will fall back to HTML.
* Partials inherits the text vs HTML identificator of the container template. This also means that plain text templates can only include plain text partials.
* Shortcode templates are, by definition, currently HTML templates only.

Fixes #3221
2017-04-02 23:13:10 +02:00
Bjørn Erik Pedersen
7eb71ee064 Revert "tpl: Rework to handle both text and HTML templates"
Will have to take another stab at this ...

This reverts commit 5c5efa03d2.

Closes #3260
2017-04-02 14:20:34 +02:00
Bjørn Erik Pedersen
5c5efa03d2 tpl: Rework to handle both text and HTML templates
Before this commit, Hugo used `html/template` for all Go templates.

While this is a fine choice for HTML and maybe also RSS feeds, it is painful for plain text formats such as CSV, JSON etc.

This commit fixes that by using the `IsPlainText` attribute on the output format to decide what to use.

A couple of notes:

* The above requires a nonambiguous template name to type mapping. I.e. `/layouts/_default/list.json` will only work if there is only one JSON output format, `/layouts/_default/list.mytype.json` will always work.
* Ambiguous types will fall back to HTML.
* Partials inherits the text vs HTML identificator of the container template. This also means that plain text templates can only include plain text partials.
* Shortcode templates are, by definition, currently HTML templates only.

Fixes #3221
2017-04-02 11:37:30 +02:00
Bjørn Erik Pedersen
dbb83f925a hugolib: Read default output formats from site config 2017-03-27 15:43:56 +02:00
Bjørn Erik Pedersen
baa29f6534 output: Rework the base template logic
Extract the logic to a testable function and add support for custom output types.

Fixes #2995
2017-03-27 15:43:56 +02:00