Casse-pere

History

Casse-pere is based on Chaschper. Thank you to Jens-Christian Fischer for his work on Chaschper. Chaschper is based on Casper Two, a port of the Casper, the default personal blogging theme for Ghost. A legacy version (v1.x) has already been ported to Hugo years ago.

With Casse-pere, I tried to organize things in a way that suited me better. For example, here's a list (non exhaustive) of the changes I made:

• Moved the navigation bar on top of the page
• Added the Whatsapp, LinkedIn and Email share buttons to the floating header
• Added support for Google Tag Manager
• Added support for robots.txt and sitemap.xml generation
• Added ability to toggle on/off the search feature, logo footer, author signature in posts
• Show post description in a list instead of full untruncated content
• Removed the "archive" content type
• Decoupled the word count and the read time, so I can show only read time in articles
• Fixed some screen width responsivity issues around the 900px breakpoint
• Removed Matomo, as Google Analytics is free, and suited me
• Added support of JSON-LD to leverage the Schema.org vocabulary in different types of pages
• Added support for applause-button feature in blog pages
• Many more...

Theme Demo

• albanleandri.com

Installation

Inside the folder of your Hugo site run:

    $ cd themes
    $ git clone https://github.com/albanleandri/hugo-casse-pere.git casse-pere

or if you plan to use netlify to host your site

    $ cd themes
    $ git submodule add https://github.com/albanleandri/hugo-casse-pere.git casse-pere

For more information read the official setup guide of Hugo.

Sample Configuration

The following config.toml is used for the demo site.

baseurl         = "https://example.com/"
title           = "Blog Example"
theme           = [ "casse-pere" ]
languageCode    = "en-US"
disqusShortname = ""
paginate        = 6
canonifyurls    = true
assetDir        = "static"


[author]
    name    = "Alban Leandri"
    nick    = "aleandri"
    email   = ""
    avatar  = ""
    description = "Product Manager. Marketer. Engineer"

[params]
  title       = "Blog"
  domain      = "blog.com"
  subtitle    = "Stuffs. Stuffs. Stuffs"
  copyright   = "© 2019"

  cover       = "img/blog-cover.webp"
  description = "Blog"
  metaDescription = ""
  googleAnalytics = ""
  customCSS = []
  RSSLinkPost = ""
  showSubcribe = true
  showReadingTime = true

  mainSections = ["music", "code"]

  twitterName = "yourhandlehere"
  fbName = "yourhandlehere"
  githubName = "yourhandlehere"
  linkedinName = "yourhandlehere"
  keybaseName = "yourhandlehere"


  pageNotFoundTitle = "404 - Page not found"


[permalinks]
  posts = "/:year/:month/:slug/"

[[menu.main]]
  name = "Musings"
  url = "/categories/musings"
  weight = 200

[[menu.main]]
  name = "Music"
  url = "/categories/music"
  weight = 100

[[menu.main]]
  name = "Code"
  url = "/categories/code"
  weight = 99

[[menu.main]]
  name = "Art"
  url = "/categories/art"
  weight = 95

[[menu.main]]
  name = "About"
  url = "/basic/about"
  weight = 90


# These are parameters used for indieweb identity. You should set these along
# with the above email/social network parameters.
[params.IndieWeb]
    Country = "Switzerland"
    City = "Geneva"
    webmention = "example.com"

A sample of content structure is given in the exampleSite folder. Have fun!

Search

The forked themes had a search function. It must be toggled on, in order to be visible in the navigation bar. It uses DuckDuckGo for a site-specific search, provided you have set the domain parameter in your config.toml file

To get DuckDuckGo to index your domain, submit it to the Yandex Webmaster Tools - after a few days, DuckDuckGo will have picked up the domain and the pages indexed by Yandex.

Image Galleries

Create a directory called "galleries" in your content directory. Add a directory for each gallery and place the images in it. Add index.md (otherwise it will not work) with a description (optional) and the following front matter:

---
title: "Scuol 2018-10-25"
date: 2018-10-25T15:26:46+01:00
tags: ["scuol", "autumn"]
type: "gallery"
---

A wonderful, sunny day in Scuol in autumn. Pictures taken during a walk down to the Inn river.

The galleries will mix in with your regular posts and there is a /galleries path that lists all of them in reverse chronological order.

Uses Fluidbox to display images.

License

This theme is released under the MIT license. For more information read the License.