Setting up the blog

A quick howto on how I used Hugo to setup this blog.

The Steps:

• Create a test org-mode file so I don’t destroy everything on accident

• Create a directory where I want the blog to be, in my case ~/Dropbox/org/blog

• Follow the steps from here: http://www.holgerschurig.de/en/emacs-blog-from-org-to-hugo/

• Install hugo (on Windows 10)

  1. Install chocolatey https://chocolatey.org/install#install-with-cmdexe

     # for the powershell, close it after execution
     Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))
     

  2. Install hugo using chocolatey:

     # on the normal shell
     choco install hugo -confirm
     

• Follow the startup steps for hugo to setup a site and get the server running

  # some command to create a default site
  # then download a theme
  # copy the exampleSite structure into the main blog directory to have some dummy content
  cp -R theme/$theme_name/exampleSite .
  hugo server
  # look at the site
  

• Next steps:

  • https://gohugo.io/themes/customizing/ Check out the customizing tutorial
  • Get a theme that I like
    • I ditched ananke and got “bluestnight”. Now i have to customize it.
    • Disabled the patreon widget
  • Check out this link: https://vurt.co.uk/post/blogging-with-emacs-and-hugo/