Creating an ‘Academic Themed’ website with blogdown and Hugo
A companion guide to Dan Quintana’s thread
Gina Reynolds
9/10/2019
- Step 0: Link to Dan Quintana’s thread for reference
- Step 1: Install blogdown by running install.packages(“blogdown”) in the console
- Step 2: Create file structure in RStudio with File -> New Project … -> New Directory -> Website Using Blogdown -> Hugo theme:
gcushen/hugo-academic - Step 3: Load blogdown with library(blogdown)
- Step 4: Install the “hugo” website framework with blogdown::install_hugo(force = TRUE)
- Step 5: Build the template blogdown::serve_site()
- Step 6: Changing the title of your website in the “config.toml”
- Step 7: Change color/theme/font of your website in “config/_default/params.toml”
- Step 8: Adjust what widgets show up in each of the .md files in “content/home/”, e.g. in “content/home/hero.md”, “active = true” to “active = false”
- Step 9: Update your profile photo by saving your photo as ‘avatar.jpg’ in the “content/authors/admin” folder
- Step 10: Edit your biography details in the “content/authors/admin/_index.md” file
- Step 11: Edit your contact details in the “Contact Widget setup” section of config/_default/params.toml"
- Step 12: Add your CV by copying your CV to “static/files/cv.pdf” and uncommenting
- Step 13: Periodically view updates by serving site using blogdown:::serve_site()
- Step 14: Add your publications in the “content/publication/” folder
- Step 15: Change what appears in header menu *by editing config/_default/menus.toml*
- Step 16: Deploy your website - one way is using Netlify
Introduction:
A little bit about blogdown and the Academic theme here…
Step 0: Link to Dan Quintana’s thread for reference
It will also be “quoted” throughout. He gives us some motivation for using blogdown and hugo-academic.
