Hermit-V2 is a minimal and fast theme for Hugo, built for bloggers who want a simple and focused website. This is a maintained fork of [Hermit](https://github.com/Track3/hermit), which iterates over the original work to have a almost-stable experience with bug fixes and new features.
When I had switched from jekyll to Hugo, I was in a need of a theme. I was enthralled by this very theme and I am using it since in my own personal blog. However, it looks like [OP]((https://github.com/Track3)) has stopped maintaining this theme and as a result, it is riddled with bugs and code breaks. Hence, I have taken upon myself to maintain this theme. Intention of this project is to keep the essence of the theme as-it-is and only add minor updates and squash bugs which may arise.
Demo page [https://1bl4z3r.github.io/hermit-V2](https://1bl4z3r.github.io/hermit-V2), which is both demo as well as documentation for the theme, is located in [Staging Branch](https://github.com/1bl4z3r/hermit-V2/tree/staging)
Or, if your Hugo site is already in git, you can include this repository as a [git submodule](https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Submodules). This makes it easier to update this theme. For this you need to run:
* Responsive & Retina Ready. Scales gracefully from a big screen all the way down to the smallest mobile phone. Assets in vector format ensures that it looks sharp on high-resolution screens.
Site Configuration is done through `hugo.toml` or `hugo.yaml` file in root directory of your Hugo Site. To aid you, there is a [hugo.toml.example](https://github.com/1bl4z3r/hermit-V2/blob/main/hugo.toml.example) file located in theme folder. See this configuration in action [here](https://github.com/1bl4z3r/hermit-V2/blob/staging/hugo.toml). See what each configuration does [here](https://1bl4z3r.github.io/hermit-V2/en/posts/explaining-configs/#configuation-in-hugotoml).
I have found that there are some requirement where custom CSS and JS should be supplied to a page to make it work. This custom files are not required for whole of the site, but is restricted to a page or few particular pages. E.g. If you make contact form.
The files itself will reside in `static/css` for CSS files and `static/js` for JS files. Refer to [Staging Branch](https://github.com/1bl4z3r/hermit-V2/tree/staging) to have a feel on how [this](https://github.com/1bl4z3r/hermit-V2/blob/staging/content/about-hugo.md) is implemented.
In Hugo, layouts can live in either the project’s (root) or the themes’ layout folders, any template inside the root layout folder will override theme's layout that relative to it, for example: `layouts/_default/baseof.html` will override `themes/hermit/layouts/_default/baseof.html`. So, you can easily customize the theme without edit it directly, which makes updating the theme easier. Here's some common customizations:
We only have built-in support for Disqus at the moment, if that doesn't fit your needs, you can just add html to site's `layouts/partials/comments.html`.
If you'd like to customize theme color or fonts, you can simply override `assets/scss/_predefined.scss`, by simply copy it to site's root (keep the same relative path) then edit those variables. But keep in mind, you'll need **Hugo extended version** which has the ability to rebuild SCSS. You don't have to use extended version in production but in this case it's necessary to make sure the `resources` folder is committed and "up to date" (by running `hugo` or `hugo server` locally using the extended version). But anyway, always use the extended version if you can.
You can inject any html code to every page's document head or right above the closing body tag. This makes it easier to add any html meta data, custom css/js, dns-prefetch etc. To do this you simply need to create a file at site's `layouts/partials/extra-head.html` or `layouts/partials/extra-foot.html`, code inside will be injected to every page.
