Tomas Dosoudil

An enthusiastic software engineer

Transfer Jekyll blog to Hugo

Published March 25, 2023

I have recently decided to change my blog from Jekyll to Hugo. Although I don’t have much content here I always like an idea of beying able to write a post.

This page is using Devise theme. All configuration went pretty smooth except one thing. All my posts were missing headers. After a couple of tries I found out that all posts needs to be in a folder called post in the content folder.

Images are supposed to be store in the static folder where is my home image as well static/me.jpg.

Here are couple of usefule links I used during configuration of Hugo.

Syntax highlights: https://gohugo.io/content-management/syntax-highlighting/

Snippets gallery: https://xyproto.github.io/splash/docs/all.html

Github workflow for publishing on GitHub Pages: https://gohugo.io/hosting-and-deployment/hosting-on-github/

My config

This is how the current block is configured in config.toml

baseURL = "https://tomdos.github.io"
title = "Tomas Dosoudil"
languageCode = "en-us"
theme = "devise"
#relativeURLs = true
enableEmoji = true
enableRobotsTXT = true
copyright = "© Copyright 2023, Tomas Dosoudil"

[markup]
  [markup.highlight]
    style = 'dracula'

# Main menu items
[menu]
  [[menu.main]]
    identifier = "about"
    name = "About"
    title = "About"
    url = "/about/"
    weight = -90
  [[menu.main]]
    identifier = "posts"
    name = "Posts"
    title = "Posts"
    url = "/post/"
    weight = -100

# Configuration Features
[params]
  description = "Tomas Dosoudil's blog"
  header_title = "Tomas Dosoudil"
  header_subtitle = "A software engineer enthusiast"
  home_image = "me.jpg"
  recent_posts = 100  
  mainSections = ["post"]
  [params.style]        
    backgroundColor = "#f8f9fa"
    homeImageBorderColor = "#ffffff"
    fontFamilyBase = "Helvetica Neue"
    fontColor = "#212529"
  [[params.social]]
    fa_icon = "fab fa-github fa-1x" 
    href = "https://github.com/tomdos"
  [[params.social]]
    fa_icon = "fab fa-linkedin-in fa-1x"
    href = "https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom%C3%A1%C5%A1-dosoudil-49453658/"