Theme submission: simpleness

[RainerChiang]

Theme submission

Link to my theme repository: https://github.com/RainerChiang/simpleness

I made sure that...

• [x] the repository contains a good README.md describing my theme
• [x] an open source license has been added to LICENSE.md
• [x] all metadata have been added to theme.toml
• [x] screenshots have been added in the images/ folder with the required dimensions
• [x] in case I'm using a customized demo via the exampleSite folder that
  • [x] https://example.com is set as base url in exampleSite/config.{toml, yaml, json} to avoid the abuse of unused domains
  • [x] I tested that my theme's demo works with the content directory of gohugoio/HugoBasicExample
• [x] I tested my theme against the gohugoio/HugoBasicExample
  • [x] I've checked the developer tools' console in my browser for error messages
• [x] in case my theme is using Hugo Pipes features like toCSS and PostCSS that I have committed the /resources directory with all generated assets, for my theme to work in the basic version of Hugo

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Link to my Twitter account (optional): https://twitter.com/ChiangRainer

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[digitalcraftsman]

Hello @RainerChiang,

thank you for sharing this theme with the Hugo community. While reviewing your theme I noticed two minor issues:

1. please remove the leading slash from the feed url. By design, absLangURL makes such urls relative to www.example.com, even if a website is hosted at www.example.com/blog/. Thus a non-exisiting or wrong feed is linked.
2. The simpleness headline below projects in this file points to a non-existing website

[RainerChiang]

@digitalcraftsman

Thanks for your quick reply.

I have fixed up those two issues, you can check the feed url and the project file.

Thanks a lot.

[digitalcraftsman]

To ease the maintenance of the demo content hosted at www.themes.gohugo.io most themes use the default content provided by the https://github.com/gohugoio/hugoBasicExample. Your theme's demo still works fine. Only the projects page wouldn't be generated, which doesn't use a custom layout or shows any new features.

By using the hugoBasicExample's content there would still remain the link that points to a (here) non-existing page. Would it be possible to remove the link from the config?

Alternatively, we can add your theme and showcase it at themes.gohugo.io you would refer to a self-hosted demo of your theme that isn't bound to such limitations (as you already do). It would look like this (note the missing demo button).

[RainerChiang]

@digitalcraftsman

Thanks.

I've removed the link of project page in config.toml and fix some errors. I test my theme with the content of hugoBasicExample again, it works well.

[digitalcraftsman]

Thanks for agreeing to this compromise. Your theme is already live on Hugo's theme site. Next, I'll promote your theme on Hugo's official Twitter account.

A little feedback: I've checked the demo in browser with dark mode enabled. The contrast between the links to posts and the dark blue background is not very high (see screenshot).

[RainerChiang]

@digitalcraftsman Thanks a lot. I haven't adapted my theme to the dark mode yet, I may enable it later.