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{{% note "No Default Theme" %}} Hugo currently doesn’t ship with a “default” theme. This decision is intentional. We leave it up to you to decide which theme best suits your Hugo project. {{% /note %}}
Assumptions
- You have already installed Hugo on your development machine.
- You have git installed on your machine and you are familiar with basic git usage.
Install Themes
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The community-contributed themes featured on themes.gohugo.io are hosted in a centralized GitHub repository. The Hugo Themes Repo at https://github.com/gohugoio/hugoThemes is really a meta repository that contains pointers to a set of contributed themes.
{{% warning "Get git First" %}}
Without Git installed on your computer, none of the following theme instructions will work. Git tutorials are beyond the scope of the Hugo docs, but GitHub and codecademy offer free, interactive courses for beginners.
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Install All Themes
You can install all available Hugo themes by cloning the entire Hugo Theme repository on GitHub from within your working directory. Depending on your internet connection the download of all themes might take a while.
git clone --depth 1 --recursive https://github.com/gohugoio/hugoThemes.git themes
Before you use a theme, remove the .git folder in that theme's root folder. Otherwise, this will cause problem if you deploy using Git.
Install a Single Theme
Change into the themes directory and download a theme by replacing URL_TO_THEME with the URL of the theme repository:
cd themes
git clone URL_TO_THEME
The following example shows how to use the "Hyde" theme, which has its source hosted at https://github.com/spf13/hyde:
{{< code file="clone-theme.sh" >}} cd themes git clone https://github.com/spf13/hyde {{< /code >}}
Alternatively, you can download the theme as a .zip file, unzip the theme contents, and then move the unzipped source into your themes directory.
{{% note "Read the README" %}}
Always review the README.md file that is shipped with a theme. Often, these files contain further instructions required for theme setup; e.g., copying values from an example configuration file.
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Theme Placement
Please make certain you have installed the themes you want to use in the
/themes directory. This is the default directory used by Hugo. Hugo comes with the ability to change the themes directory via the themesDir variable in your site configuration, but this is not recommended.
Use Themes
Hugo applies the decided theme first and then applies anything that is in the local directory. This allows for easier customization while retaining compatibility with the upstream version of the theme. To learn more, go to customizing themes.
Command Line
There are two different approaches to using a theme with your Hugo website: via the Hugo CLI or as part of your site configuration file.
To change a theme via the Hugo CLI, you can pass the -t flag when building your site:
hugo -t themename
Likely, you will want to add the theme when running the Hugo local server, especially if you are going to customize the theme:
hugo server -t themename
config File
If you've already decided on the theme for your site and do not want to fiddle with the command line, you can add the theme directly to your site configuration file:
theme: themename
{{% note "A Note on themename" %}}
The themename in the above examples must match the name of the specific theme directory inside /themes; i.e., the directory name (likely lowercase and urlized) rather than the name of the theme displayed in the Themes Showcase site.
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