Hugo on Robert Terakedis

Change From Beautifulhugo to Clarity Theme

Fri, 11 Feb 2022 12:24:02 -0500

Since I first started this blog, I was using a theme called BeautifulHugo. The theme was great and for the most part visually appealing. However, there were some changes I was hoping to see made to the theme that never really manifested. I had even contributed back some of my own changes, but it appeared the theme had been abandoned by it's creator. I set about looking for a new theme and stumbled onto hugo-clarity. Not only was this theme visually appealing to me, but I could see regular changes being made to the theme. Yes, a theme still under active maintenance!

Updated GitHub Actions to Publish Hugo Site From Private to Public Repo

Tue, 27 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000

When I restarted my blogging journey last year, I went with Hugo to generate a static website hosted as a GitHub Pages site. As mentioned, Blogger and WordPress always suffered recurring problems, and maintenance with WordPress still turned into a time suck due to its complexity. By comparison, GitHub has been a nearly painless hosting provider, and the way I've configured it has allowed me to keep drafts hidden by staging in a private repository.

Using GitHub Actions to Publish Hugo Site From Private to Public Repo

Fri, 14 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000

I restarted my blogging journey earlier this year when I started looking into ~~Jekyll~~ Hugo to generate a static website. I had past experience with Blogger and Wordpress, but frankly had periodic problems with both platforms that ended up being a time suck. As it has been, Hugo has been a simplistic publishing method and GitHub a reliable (and FREE) hosting provider. Yet, my desire to keep my drafts private (.e.g the use of 2 separate repositories) has created a small overhead in that I have to build and manually commit the website changes to the public repository to make them live.

Another GitHub Actions Update - Using Deploy Keys Instead Of Personal Access Tokens

Fri, 06 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000

When I restarted my blogging journey in 2020, I switched from Jekyll to Hugo hosted in GitHub pages. It's been a relatively painless journey, and kudos to GitHub as a rock-solid hosting provider. I've covered it before (Initial Setup and First Update), but I've been incredibly happy with private-to-public publishing workflow that allows me to keep drafts and work-in-progress hidden. That said, a recent comment gave me reason to make another update to the Workflow. Read on for more detail...

Welcome to Hugo (from Jekyll)

Fri, 15 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Welcome to my wholly reworked website! This time, I've dropped the complexity of Wordpress and opted for something significantly simpler: ~~Jekyll~~ Hugo and GitHub.

Having now hosted the site in GitHub Pages, here was the process I started with Hugo:

Created the Github Pages repo (rterakedis.github.io) -- this is where github pages looks for the blog's generated site files.
Created a 2nd Github repo: rterakedis.github.io.hugo -- this repo holds the source files for Hugo to parse and generate the site.
Added the GH Pages repo (rterakedis.github.io) as a submodule for rterakedis.github.io.hugo
Edited the config.toml in the hugo files to include the following:

baseURL = "https://terakedis.dev/"
publishdir = "rterakedis.github.io"

Add the CNAME file into the rterakedis.github.io repo and enable the custom name/https in the repo settings
Ensure the output from hugo builds into the rterakedis.github.io directory in my local rterakedis.github.io.hugo directory
Commit and push everything to GitHub

A few quick links that I found particularly helpful when I was working with Jekyll: