I started this blog using indiefeed theme. But soon realized that the original creator has moved on. They have marked the repo as read-only on github. I had already started tweaking it to my liking, but now changes are more than tweaks. e.g. The original theme did not have good image support. i.e. only images used were in the Author profile image, and it has rounded corners/circular shape, which does not work when image is part of the post itself.
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Today I spent some more time modifying the IndieFeed theme
As I mentioned earlier, I started using hugo modules instead of git submodule from the beginning. One of the downside of it was I could not preview my changes without pushing the changes to github first.
Sometimes that might be OK, most times it is not.
How do theme developers work in such scenario. Turns out there is a hack just for that.
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Finally, deployed this site.
It took a while because, at first I was modifying the theme to my liking.
As most theme README state, I started with git submodule, but it gets confusing. That is when I came across hugo modules in this post.
But it did not work for me for multiple reasons.
First, I did not understand the difference between specifying theme from repo Vs local, and hugo mod init
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I started with indiefeed theme. While it is possible to make visual changes by creating css/style.css (as explained in the README) I’m thinking of making other changes as well.
So I started by forking the theme. So far my changes are only in css/style.css
I’m not a frontend developer. But I know enough HTML/CSS to be dangerous 😆