Emojis have been named word of the year and are seen every day in modern culture. We use them every day on our messaging apps, emails and … err blogs!
This post is about how you can enable and use them in both your Hugo themes and, in general, when writing posts.
Using Emojis in Themes
To use them within your theme, there’s a built in function which turns text in emojis. Just run your string through emojify and you should see an icon.
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{{emojify":v:"}}
Results in: ✌️
For more options and a list of emojis you can use, see the cheatsheet below.
To automatically convert emoji within your blog posts when using Hugo, we can enable them within our config file. In our example, it’s called config.toml and found in the root of our project.
config.toml
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enableEmoji=true
Once we turn this on, we can just type the tags from the cheatsheet above, and then should show as an icon.
Edd is a PHP and Go developer who enjoys blogging about his experiences, mostly about creating and coding new things he's working on and is a big beliver in open-source and Linux.
Using Parameters in Your Theme
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In Hugo, you can access the parameters specified in the front matter of your content files (e.g., Markdown files) through your Hugo templates. These are called ‘Page-level Params’. This post explores how you can use these within your theme.
We’ll be using an example of featured_image added our post below.
1 2 3 4 5 --- title: "My Post" date: 2023-06-01 featured_image: "/img/2022/goldie1.jpg" --- You can then use this parameter when editing your theme using the template tag shown below:
Changing the Syntax Highlighting Style in Hugo
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When building a website using Hugo, you might want to customize the syntax highlighting to match your site’s overall aesthetic. Hugo uses Chroma, a powerful syntax highlighting engine, to provide code highlighting out of the box.
In this blog post, we’ll guide you through the process of changing the syntax highlighting style in Hugo using Chroma, with the help of the hugo gen chromastyles command.
Add Adsense Ads to Your Posts
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This post sets out how you can add your Google Adsense code to your blog posts. As this is MakeWithHugo, we’ll be adding them to our Hugo site.
You’ll need a few things before starting, an Adsense account, the snippet of code from Adsense and knowing where you want to put them (or auto ads for the easy option).
There’s a few different ways to achieve this, based on where you want them.
