Updated on 2021-03-03: You can now customize the post preview design

Find out how to create and organize your content quickly and intuitively in uBlogger theme.

1 Contents Organization

A few suggestions to help you get a good looking site quickly:

• Keep post pages in the content/posts directory, for example: content/posts/my-first-post.md
• Keep other pages in the content directory, for example: content/about.md
• Local resources organization

2 Front Matter

Hugo allows you to add front matter in yaml, toml or json to your content files.

Here is a front matter example:

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---
title: "My First Post"
subtitle: ""
date: 2020-03-04T15:58:26+08:00
lastmod: 2020-03-04T15:58:26+08:00
draft: true
# author 
author: ""
# authorLink  
authorLink: ""
description: ""
license: ""
images: []

#  Article Update Information
upd: ""

#  Author's comment, is shown above all comments
authorComment: ""

#  article design theme
theme: ""
#  Allows you to hide the preview image on the article page
hiddenFeaturedImage: false

#  Post display settings on the page
summaryStyle:
    #  Display previews on the page of posts
    hiddenImage: false
    #  Allows you to hide the description
    hiddenDescription: false
    #  Allows you to hide the title
    hiddenTitle: true
    tags:
      #  One of the options for displaying tags
      theme: "image"
      #  Text color
      color: "white"
      #  Backing color
      background: "black"
      #  Tag transparency
      transparency: 0.9
tags: []
categories: []
featuredImage: ""
featuredImagePreview: ""

hiddenFromHomePage: false
hiddenFromSearch: false
twemoji: false

ruby: true
fraction: true
fontawesome: true
linkToMarkdown: true
rssFullText: false

toc:
  enable: true
  auto: true
code:
  copy: true
  # ...
math:
  enable: true
  # ...
mapbox:
  accessToken: ""
  # ...
share:
  enable: true
  # ...
comment:
  enable: true
  # ...
library:
  css:
    # someCSS = "some.css"
    # located in "assets/"
    # Or
    # someCSS = "https://cdn.example.com/some.css"
  js:
    # someJS = "some.js"
    # located in "assets/"
    # Or
    # someJS = "https://cdn.example.com/some.js"
seo:
  images: []
  # ...
---

• title: the title for the content.

• subtitle: the subtitle for the content.

• date: the datetime assigned to this page, which is usually fetched from the date field in front matter, but this behaviour is configurabl in the site configuration.

• lastmod: the datetime at which the content was last modified.

• draft: if true, the content will not be rendered unless the --buildDrafts/-D flag is passed to the hugo command.

• author: the author for the content.

• authorLink: the link of the author.

• description: the description for the content.

• license: the special lisence for this content.

• images: page images for Open Graph and Twitter Cards.

• tags: the tags for the content.

• categories: the categories for the content.

• featuredImage: the featured image for the content.

• featuredImagePreview: the featured image for the content preview in the home page.

• hiddenFromHomePage: if true, the content will not be shown in the home page.

• hiddenFromSearch: if true, the content will not be shown in the search results.

• twemoji: if true, the content will enable the twemoji.

• lightgallery: if true, images in the content will be shown as the gallery.

• ruby: if true, the content will enable the ruby extended syntax.

• fraction: if true, the content will enable the fraction extended syntax.

• fontawesome: if true, the content will enable the Font Awesome extended syntax.

• linkToMarkdown: if true, the footer of the content will be shown the link to the orignal Markdown file.

• rssFullText: if true, the full text content will be shown in RSS.

• toc: the same as the params.page.toc part in the site configuration.

• code: the same as the params.page.code part in the site configuration.

• math: the same as the params.page.math part in the site configuration.

• mapbox: the same as the params.page.mapbox part in the site configuration.

• share: the same as the params.page.share part in the site configuration.

• comment: the same as the params.page.comment part in the site configuration.

• library: the same as the params.page.library part in the site configuration.

• seo: the same as the params.page.seo part in the site configuration.

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resources:
- name: featured-image
  src: featured-image.jpg
- name: featured-image-preview
  src: featured-image-preview.jpg

Theme

You can choose one of three topics for an article. The differences between them are in the location of the image and the title of the article with metadata.

All themes are adaptable to any screen size.

Available values: classic, wide, full. This page uses design - full.

classic

wide

full

Author

Many authors are now supported - you can write more than one article.

For your convenience, author data is stored as json in the data/authors folder. Don’t forget to create it.

Format JSON:

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{
  "name": "Struchkov Mark",
  "nickname": "uPagge",
  "about": "Trusted user pc",
  "avatar": "https://upagge.ru/img/ava.jpg",
  "link": "https://uPagge.ru",
  "email": "me@upagge.ru",
  "ps": "If you like this topic, put an asterisk in GitHub, it will be a pleasure for me"
}

🥖 Breadcrumbs

This is quite a useful chip for SEO optimization, it is implemented in all three themes. Support for opengraph.

Traditionally, Breadcrumbs are placed above the header.

They contain a path by sections to the current page, with links to sections. For posts it is the main page of the site, then the category of the post and the name of the post without a link.

Disable content for H1-H2

You can disable default characters ‘#’, ‘|’ by setting the correct id. It must start with ‘u-’.

You can use this to set emoji or partition number.

Summary display settings

You can customize the summary view to your taste by changing the following parameters.

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summaryStyle:
    hiddenImage: false
    hiddenDescription: false
    hiddenTitle: true
    tags:
      theme: "image"
      color: "white"
      background: "black"
      transparency: 0.9

What kinds of tags are available:

• image. Tags on the picture
• footer. Tags in footer summary
• under-footer. Tags under summary

These parameters, together with the scss override, allow you to customize the display quite flexibly.

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$article-summary-border-radius: 32px;
$article-summary-image-border-radius: 30px;

The global setting is, as always, available in the main configuration file

3 Content Summaries

uBlogger theme uses the summary of the content to display abstract information in the home page. Hugo can generate summaries of your content.

Automatic Summary Splitting

By default, Hugo automatically takes the first 70 words of your content as its summary.

You may customize the summary length by setting summaryLength in the site configuration.

If you are creating content in a CJKChinese/Japanese/Korean language and want to use Hugo’s automatic summary splitting, set hasCJKLanguage to true in your site configuration.

Manual Summary Splitting

Alternatively, you may add the <!--more--> summary divider where you want to split the article.

Content that comes before the summary divider will be used as that content’s summary.

Front Matter Summary

You might want your summary to be something other than the text that starts the article. In this case you can provide a separate summary in the summary variable of the article front matter.

Use Description as Summary

You might want your description in the description variable of the article front matter as the summary.

You may add the <!--more--> summary divider at the start of the article. Keep content that comes before the summary divider empty. Then uBlogger theme will use your description as the summary.

Priority Order of Summary Selection

Because there are multiple ways in which a summary can be specified it is useful to understand the order. It is as follows:

1. If there is a <!--more--> summary divider present in the article but no content is before the divider, the description will be used as the summary.
2. If there is a <!--more--> summary divider present in the article the text up to the divider will be provided as per the manual summary split method.
3. If there is a summary variable in the article front matter the value of the variable will be provided as per the front matter summary method.
4. The text at the start of the article will be provided as per the automatic summary split method.

TimeAgo

TimeAgo allows you to display the date of publication of a post in the style of social networks, as opposed to the current time. For example, “4 minutes ago,” “one day ago”

4 Basic Markdown Syntax

This part is shown in the basic markdown syntax page.

5 Extended Markdown Syntax

uBlogger theme has some extended syntax elements for you to write articles.

Emoji Support

This part is shown in the emoji support page.

Mathematical Formula

uBlogger theme supports mathematical formulas based on $ \KaTeX $.

Set the property enable = true under [params.math] in your site configuration and the property math: true of the article front matter to enable the automatic rendering of mathematical formulas.

Block Formula

The default block delimiters are $$/$$ and \\[/\\]:

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$$ c = \pm\sqrt{a^2 + b^2} $$

\\[ f(x)=\int_{-\infty}^{\infty} \hat{f}(\xi) e^{2 \pi i \xi x} d \xi \\]

The rendered output looks like this:

$$ c = \pm\sqrt{a^2 + b^2} $$

\[ f(x)=\int_{-\infty}^{\infty} \hat{f}(\xi) e^{2 \pi i \xi x} d \xi \]

Inline Formula

The default inline delimiters are $/$ and \\(/\\):

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$ c = \pm\sqrt{a^2 + b^2} $ and \\( f(x)=\int_{-\infty}^{\infty} \hat{f}(\xi) e^{2 \pi i \xi x} d \xi \\)

The rendered output looks like this:

$ c = \pm\sqrt{a^2 + b^2} $ and \( f(x)=\int_{-\infty}^{\infty} \hat{f}(\xi) e^{2 \pi i \xi x} d \xi \)

Copy-tex

Copy-tex is an extension for $ \KaTeX $.

By the extension, when selecting and copying $ \KaTeX $ rendered elements, copies their $ \LaTeX $ source to the clipboard.

Set the property copyTex = true under [params.math] in your site configuration to enable Copy-tex.

Select and copy the formula rendered in the previous section, and you can find that the copied content is the LaTeX source code.

mhchem

mhchem is an extension for $ \KaTeX $.

By the extension, you can write beautiful chemical equations easily in the article.

Set the property mhchem = true under [params.math] in your site configuration to enable mhchem.

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$$ \ce{CO2 + C -> 2 CO} $$

$$ \ce{Hg^2+ ->[I-] HgI2 ->[I-] [Hg^{II}I4]^2-} $$

The rendered output looks like this:

$$ \ce{CO2 + C -> 2 CO} $$

$$ \ce{Hg^2+ ->[I-] HgI2 ->[I-] [Hg^{II}I4]^2-} $$

Ruby Annotation

An extended Markdown syntax for ruby annotation is supported in uBlogger theme:

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[Hugo]^(An open-source static site generator)

The rendered output looks like this:

HugoAn open-source static site generator

Fraction

An extended Markdown syntax for fraction is supported in uBlogger theme:

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[Light]/[Dark]

[99]/[100]

The rendered output looks like this:

^Light/_Dark

⁹⁰/₁₀₀

Font Awesome

uBlogger theme uses Font Awesome as the icon library. You can easily use these icons in your articles.

Get the class of icons you wanted from the Font Awesome website.

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Gone camping! :(fas fa-campground fa-fw): Be back soon.

That is so funny! :(far fa-grin-tears):

The rendered output looks like this:

Gone camping! :(fas fa-campground fa-fw): Be back soon.

That is so funny! :(far fa-grin-tears):

Escape character

In some special cases (when writing this theme documentation :(far fa-grin-squint-tears):), your content will conflict with basic or extended Markdown syntax, and it is inevitable.

The escape character syntax can help you build the content you wanted:

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{?X} -> X

For example, two : will enable emoji syntax, which is not the behavior you want. The escape character syntax is like this:

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{?:}joy:

The rendered output looks like this:

:joy: instead of 😂

Another example is:

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[link{?]}(#escape-character)

The rendered output looks like this:

[link](#escape-character) instead of link.