I have modified ananke theme quite a bit, but it is still very simple for beginners.
I was not able to work out how to make geeky-hugo to work so I added css with grok of all things to help me get it to work.
Now the theme displays the pics and has hover effects similar to geeky and looks more modern.
This is similar to my wp theme I migrated on which goes straight into the post thumb and summary section.
My only problem was that I have been making changes in both the main layouts and theme sections because I don’t know what I’m doing.
I have also discontinued disqus since the ads were kicked in a year later (they are sneaky).
I changed it to this awesome thing called giscus and I get better interaction. If you host on github, this is totally legal to do (as it is allowed but also allowed in spirit too).
It would be good if HUGO themes rejected disqus and went more for giscus.
You can see my code in HERE
and my working website HERE
If you have any suggestions to better organize this, I would be open to hear it.
It is amazing what one can do with ai and HUGO. I know basic programming and I’m able to make it work without really knowing what I’m doing and learning at the same time. GO mixed with html is a lot different than I’m used to but I sort of understand how the code works.
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Let’s rephrase that into “went into a more open way to add comment forms”. Plenty of themes do that. My own themes tend to have hooks where you can add your comment system in.
Giscus is NOT “better” than Disqus. Both systems have (depending on the users abilities) their pros and cons. You can’t comment via Giscus without having a Github account, which limits who will comment on your posts. Just one point (apart from privacy, ownership, portability to other systems, etc.).
Suggestion: You probably have a reason to have so many posts on the home page, but it’s 4.5MB to download the whole page. Less is more. Limit it to 20 posts and then paginate.
Disqus costs money if you don’t want spam ads. I had used them for one year until I was surprised to see usual spam ads one year later. If you use them, wait a year and then you might want to switch. As for making a new GitHub account for giscus, GitHub is well known and you still have to make a disqus account to use disqus
I find that most of the themes have a poor quality or pure text demos for their live sites. If they can support post thumbnails, they should show it in the demo. Because of that, I’m not sure what theme does what capabilities. Now I have what I like so I’ll just stick with it. The purpose of the post was to share my modified theme.
Geeky Hugo shows off everything, but it is too complex and difficult to get working. Directory structure is complex and the demo requires the Hugo to be run in an odd way. I tried to make it work, but it kept wanting all of these extra things that were not copied over . Like google and SEO and Baidu htmls. It was a few hours or days of fix this and get new error.
As for my start up page.. yes I made a mistake and need to reduce to 50. My browser had everything cached locally when I tested it and then I didn’t notice the size load.
