# Theme display issue - please help

**URL:** <https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/theme-display-issue-please-help/15150>\
**Category:** support\
**Created:** [November 8, 2018, 12:15am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/theme-display-issue-please-help/15150 "2018-11-08T00:15:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![pgseye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/71e660/32.png) [@pgseye](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/pgseye)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2018, 12:15am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/theme-display-issue-please-help/15150/1 "2018-11-08T00:15:01Z")

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Hi All,

I’ve been an R user for a while and as I’m wanting to make myself a personal website I thought I’d try Hugo. I’m wanting to use the Resume theme ([https://themes.gohugo.io/hugo-resume/](https://themes.gohugo.io/hugo-resume/)) by Eddie Webb.

I’ve spent a couple of days adapting my site from the template and when I uploaded it to github ([https://github.com/pgseye/psbiostats](https://github.com/pgseye/psbiostats)) and then deployed through netlify, the theme is effectively lost:

> **[Paul Sanfilippo - Biostatistician and Data Analyst](https://nifty-goldberg-962511.netlify.com/)**
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> Biostatistician and Data Scientist

and it looks pretty average. If I try blogdown::build\_site(), what ends up in the public folder locally, is the same.

Up until trying to upload and deploy, I’ve just run the site locally with blogdown::serve\_site() and it looks perfect (screenshot attached). I didn’t realise there was an issue until I tried to publish.

I obviously haven’t set something up correctly. Any help would be appreciated - frustrating to lose days work 😩

Thanks - Paul

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P.S. Hugo 0.50

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**Author:** ![RickCogley](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/rickcogley/32/10269_2.png) [@RickCogley](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/RickCogley)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2018, 12:21am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/theme-display-issue-please-help/15150/2 "2018-11-08T00:21:09Z")

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There are a lot of this kind of issue cited in this forum so, have a search. Usually it appears it’s related to how you set the baseURL param or, how you are referencing the css. It’s probably not a hard fix but, I don’t use Netlify so I can’t comment in detail, sorry.

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**Author:** ![pointyfar](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/pointyfar/32/5797_2.png) [@pointyfar](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/pointyfar)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2018, 12:55am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/theme-display-issue-please-help/15150/3 "2018-11-08T00:55:55Z")

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Echoing this:

> [@RickCogley](#):
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> Usually it appears it’s related to how you set the baseURL param

Your `config.toml` has:

```auto
baseURL = "https://example.com/"

```

which you need to set to

```auto
baseURL = "https://nifty-goldberg-962511.netlify.com/" 

```

Or whatever URL it gets deployed to.

Also, make sure you have read: [Host on Netlify | Hugo](https://gohugo.io/hosting-and-deployment/hosting-on-netlify/)

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**Author:** ![pgseye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/71e660/32.png) [@pgseye](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/pgseye)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2018, 1:04am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/theme-display-issue-please-help/15150/4 "2018-11-08T01:04:44Z")

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> [@pointyfar](#):
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> [https://nifty-goldberg-962511.netlify.com/](https://nifty-goldberg-962511.netlify.com/)

Oh - so simple. I’m embarrassed! Thanks so much.