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title: How To Setup Meghna Hugo date: 2018-09-12T14:51:12.000+06:00 author: Mark Dinn image_webp: images/blog/meghna.webp image: images/blog/meghna.jpg description: This is meta description
Install this template by following those simple steps:
STEP-1 : Hugo installation
Check this link below for install hugo on your computer. hugo install documentation
STEP-2 : Create your project
Hugo provides a new command to create a new website.
hugo new site <new_project>
STEP-3 : Install the theme
Run this command
hugo new site meghna-hugo
and then go to the themes folder inside of meghna-hugo folder. You can also use this command cd meghna-hugo/themes for going to this folder.
Then run the command
git clone git@github.com:themefisher/meghna-hugo.git
Alternatively, you can download the theme as .zip file and extract it in the themes directory
After that you need to go to the meghna-hugo/exampleSite folder and copy or cut all the elements, and now go back to the root folder and paste it here.
open the command prompt again and run cd ../ command for go back to the root folder.
STEP-4 : Host locally
Launching the website locally by using the following command:
hugo serve
Go to http://localhost:1313
Or you can check this video documentation for installing this template: {{< youtube 3O3qvDoVp5g >}}
STEP-5 : Basic configuration
When building the website, you can set a theme by using --theme option. However, we suggest you modify the configuration file (config.toml) and set the theme as the default.
# Change the default theme to be use when building the site with Hugo
theme = "meghna-hugo"
STEP-6 : Create your first content pages
hugo new blog/post-name.md
STEP-7 : Build the website
When your site is ready to deploy, run the following command:
hugo
# You can also create a minified version by using this command:
hugo--minify
A public folder will be generated, containing all static content and assets for your website. It can now be deployed on any web server.