Create your project
Hugo provides a new
command to create a new website hugo new site theme_name
Theme Setup
After creating new site, open this folder and you will find a folder called themes
. Open this folder and place your downloaded themes here (extracted folder). now open it and you will see a folder called exampleSite
In this folder you need to copy/cut every folder and file, then go back to your root folder that you create with theme_name
. and paste everything here, it will asked you for replacement file and folder, click on replace, and it will replace with the necessary file. You are all set.
Launching the website locally
Now you can run this theme in your localhost by this hugo server
command in the root folder directory. and you can see this on
localhost:1313
video documentation
If you don’t understand the theme setup steps, you can follow this video documentation.