Basic Configuration

Hugo reads its configuration from hugo.yaml in the root of your Hugo site. The config file is where you can configure all aspects of your site. You can find the config file for this site in exampleSite/hugo.yaml as a good starting point.

Navigation

Menu

Top right menu is defined under the menu.main section in the config file:

menu:
  main:
    - name: Documentation
      pageRef: /docs
      weight: 1
    - name: Blog
      pageRef: /blog
      weight: 2
    - name: About
      pageRef: /about
      weight: 3
    - name: Search
      weight: 4
      params:
        type: search
    - name: GitHub
      weight: 5
      url: "https://github.com/masonclassicalacademy/"
      params:
        icon: github

There are different types of menu items:

1. Link to a page in the site with pageRef

   - name: Documentation
     pageRef: /docs
2. Link to an external URL with url

   - name: GitHub
     url: "https://github.com"
3. Search bar with type: search

   - name: Search
     params:
       type: search
4. Icon

   - name: GitHub
     params:
       icon: github

These menu items can be sorted by setting the weight parameter.

Logo and Title

To modify the default logo, edit hugo.yaml and add the path to your logo file under static directory. Optionally, you can change the link that users are redirected to when clicking on your logo, as well as set the width & height of the logo in pixels.

params:
  navbar:
    displayTitle: true
    displayLogo: true
    logo:
      path: images/logo.svg
      dark: images/logo-dark.svg
      link: /
      width: 40
      height: 20

Sidebar

Main Sidebar

For the main sidebar, it is automatically generated from the structure of the content directory. See the Organize Files page for more details.

Extra Links

Sidebar extra links are defined under the menu.sidebar section in the config file:

menu:
  sidebar:
    - name: More
      params:
        type: separator
      weight: 1
    - name: "About"
      pageRef: "/about"
      weight: 2
    - name: "Hugo Docs ↗"
      url: "https://gohugo.io/documentation/"
      weight: 3

Right Sidebar

Table of Contents

Table of contents is automatically generated from the headings in the content file. It can be disabled by setting toc: false in the front matter of the page.

---
title: Configuration
toc: false
---

Page Edit Link

To configure the page edit link, we can set the params.editURL.base parameter in the config file:

params:
  editURL:
    base: "https://github.com/your-username/your-repo/edit/main"

The edit links will be automatically generated for each page. If you want to set edit link for a specific page, you can set the params.editURL parameter in the front matter of the page:

---
title: Configuration
params:
  editURL: "https://example.com/edit/this/page"
---

Footer

Copyright

To modify the copyright text displayed in your website’s footer, you’ll need to create a file named i18n/en.yaml. In this file, specify your new copyright text as shown below:

copyright: "© 2023 YOUR TEXT HERE"

For your reference, an example i18n/en.yaml file can be found in the GitHub repository. Additionally, you could use Markdown format in the copyright text.

Others

Favicon

To customize the favicon for your site, place icon files under the static folder to override the default favicons from the theme:

Include both favicon.ico and favicon.svg files in your project to ensure your site’s favicons display correctly.

While favicon.ico is generally for older browsers, favicon.svg is supported by modern ones. The optional favicon-dark.svg can be included for a tailored experience in dark mode. Feel free to use tools like favicon.io or favycon to generate these icons.

Page Width

The width of the page can be customized by the params.page.width parameter in the config file:

params:
  page:
    # full (100%), wide (90rem), normal (1280px)
    width: wide

There are three available options: full, wide, and normal. By default, the page width is set to normal.

Similarly, the width of the navbar and footer can be customized by the params.navbar.width and params.footer.width parameters.

Google Analytics

To enable Google Analytics, set the googleAnalytics parameter in the config file:

googleAnalytics: G-XXXXXXXXXX