Smigle Lite

My own site was using the Smigle as I really like the concept of simplicity, lite weight with no javascript and tracking. However there were aspects that I didn't like. I found myself making far more CSS hacks than I would like. Therefore took the decision to create a new version of the theme with the changes included.

Description

On the face of it, there isn't many changes from Smigle, however the changes I've made are as follows:

• Removed the need for a user profile image.
• Removed the site tag line, I'm not cool enough for one of those.
• Removed the time to read post.
• Removed the word count of posts.
• Stripped down the post meta data listings.
• Updated the taxonomies pages to just be lists with a count, no additional styles.
• Updated the footer to include a reference back to Smigle and smol.
• Various spacing changes and CSS tweaks to address the removal of elements.

This theme still retains the concept of the previous two themes of which it's based:

• No JavaScript
• No Google spyware or tracking of any kind
• No other external dependencies, embedded fonts or comment sections

Getting Started

From the root of your site:

git submodule add https://github.com/joe-mccarthy/smigle-lite themes/smigle-lite

Running the example-site

To try out the theme prior to changing your site to use the theme, you can start up the example site within the theme.

git clone https://github.com/joe-mccarthy/smigle-lite
cd example-site
hugo server --source . --themesDir ../../ --theme smigle-lite

Open your web browser to http://localhost:1313 to view the demo of the theme.

Updating

From the root of your site:

git submodule foreach git pull origin main

Run example site

hugo new site mysite -f yaml
cd mysite
git init
git submodule add https://github.com/joe-mccarthy/smigle-lite themes/smigle-lite
# update config.yaml theme variable to be theme: smigle-lite
hugo server

Configuration

The example-site has a configuration that shows the following:

• menu:main :- Example on how to set the menu items at the top of the site.
• params:latest :- how to enable the latest posts at the bottom of post content, and the number of posts to show. params:abbrDateFmt :- This is the format for short date formats this is used within the /posts to show all posts by year.
• params:dateFmt :- The format of the data shown in the post meta sections.
• params:social :- List of links to be displayed in the footer of the site. This is a key value pair, with the name, and url to navigate to.
• params:license :- configures if a license is presented in the footer for the site contents. If no license do not include this configuration item. If there is a license then two sub items have to be added for the name and url.

Contributing

Have you found a bug or got an idea for a new feature? Feel free to use the issue tracker to let me know. Or make directly a pull request.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Acknowledgements

• Ian S. McBride : The author and maintainer of the Hugo Smigle Theme of which this theme is based upon.
• colorchestra : Maintainer of smol of which Smigle was derived.
• Hugo the static site generator that makes this all possible.