Minimal Academic is a two-column Hugo theme for personal sites. See the live demo here and read about my experience here.
This theme is designed to be simple and unobtrusive, featuring a clean color palette and consistent formatting throughout, with an emphasis on a beautiful hero image as the masthead. Google Analytics and Disqus are supported out of the box.
I'm assuming you've already installed Hugo and have created a new project. You can follow instructions for that here.
In the root folder of your Hugo project, run:
cd themes
git clone https://github.com/jhu247/minimal-academic.git
The exampleSite
directory contains all of the necessary resources to launch the site. Due to #3, you will need to change the theme
value to "../../"
. Run hugo server
from here and point your browser to http://localhost:1313/
to test it out.
Copy config.toml
from exampleSite
to your project's root folder to use it. Note that you'll need to change the theme
value to minimal-academic
for it to work. This is also where you'll change the title of your site, add your own social media links, configure Google Analytics and Disqus, etc.
Upload your own avatar and hero image by replacing portrait.jpg
and hero.jpg
in /static/img/
.
Create some content! Either copy the .md
files from exampleSite
as a template or use the hugo new command.
hugo server
with the --watch
and --verbose
flags makes development much faster and debugging much easier.There's still more to do:
Please feel free to submit an issue or create a pull request!
This theme is released under the MIT License. For more information, please read the license.