I have been reviewing Hugo themes to pick something for a non-blog site and it appeared to me that one can roughly classify all themes into the following categories: blog-like one (Ghostwriter) or the two (Hyde) column documentation themes (Alabaster) bootstrap-like with top horizontal menu landin…

[image] epogrebnyak: do you know any resources/charts that show some genealogy of the themes and their ports across platforms To answer this question, if you look at a theme’s theme.toml file, if it is a port, then it’ll have these lines https://github.com/zwbetz-gh/cupper-hugo-theme/blob/mas…

Great clue! I guess it is an optional part in theme.toml, but important one! I was thinking about parsing the repo of themes and making a dataset of theme properties, this should definitely be one of the features. Also thought following should be the features: exampleSite/content folders root fil…

[image] epogrebnyak: exampleSite/content folders Only a few themes on the Hugo website are allowed to use their own exampleSite/content folder. Most theme demos inherit their content from the HugoBasicExample , also note that this repo is currently in the middle of refactoring. We had to mak…

[image] alexandros: few themes on the Hugo website are allowed to use their own exampleSite/content folder Actually studying exampleSite/content looks like a good way to adopt a theme - as the subfolders in it are not the same. Also hugoBasicExample has a strong inclination towards blogs, n…

We are not done yet. By the end of the week I will add content for .product catalogues and portfolio websites. There is already a /homepage/ headless bundle meant for Single Page Applications. For complicated theme submissions such as Documentation, digital books, presentations etc we have a Whit…

thank you guys, this is great work! (in progress :wink: )

[image] epogrebnyak: I was thinking about parsing the repo of themes and making a dataset of theme properties FWIW, I have something like that, currently with the focus on filtering by tags, Hugo version, license, and github stars, sortable by date updated, stars, and name. :slight_smile:

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epogrebnyak March 12, 2019, 8:05pm 7

Thanks for explainations and pointing to the themes code - from the comments one can really see many stories developping that needed your curation.

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