Hugo provides data file feature https://gohugo.io/extras/datafiles/
I have some question about usage and practices as theme developer. Today I’m developing theme https://github.com/kakawait/hugo-tranquilpeak-theme and this theme becomes more and more customizable, thus more and more configuration keys are created.
What do you think about data file for theme customization? For example, I allow user to customize date format
[params]
dateFormat = "2 January 2006"
but I saw some theme developer uses data file to customize such information, see https://github.com/enten/hyde-y/blob/master/data/Formats.yaml
Other use case is to override copyright, by default my theme is displaying theme like following:
© 2016 Thibaud Leprêtre. All Rights Reserved
© {{ .Now.Format "2006" }} {{ .Site.author.name }}. {{ i18n "footer.copyright" }}
But someone request me to be able to add link associated to {{ .Site.author.name }}
thus I created this param (that will be used if present or fallback to above version)
[params.footer]
copyright = "<a href=\"#an-url\">Your Name</a>"
to allow customize © 2016 <CUSTOMIZATION>. All Rights Reserved
.
How can I determine if it’s better to create config.toml
param or data
? Do you think is good idea to add configuration and not direct content (data) inside data file?