Waffles 🧇 is a minimal and responsive dark Hugo theme created for my CyBlog website. The colorway takes inspiration from the cliché "hacking" computer terminal look — a black/grey background with green text. The theme is named after our Shih Tzu, Waffle, or "fifi" for short, and was heavily influenced by the Risotto Hugo theme.
The current theme version only has basic features -- perfect for simple blog posts inspired by hacking or cybersecurity. In addition to blog posting, it supports the following:
- Plain HTML/CSS, no JavaScript and frameworks
- Responsive to different screen sizes, including mobile phones.
- Favicons support (Font Awesome)
- Tags support
- About page
After creating your Hugo site, download or Git Clone this repository and copy the directory to the site's themes directory using the following command:
git clone https://github.com/UncleSocks/waffles-hugo-theme-for-cyblog themes/waffles
Then, configure the Hugo site to use the Waffles theme by adding theme = 'waffles' to the hugo.toml file or theme: waffles to the hugo.yaml file. Note that if you downloaded the theme (i.e., via ZIP download), you may need to rename the directory to "waffles" before modifying the configuration file.
In addition to the listed features above, you can modify the theme's menu, site's title, description, and copyright on the hugo.toml or hugo.yaml file. A sample site is available in the exampleSite directory for reference.
At the time of writing, my CyBlog homepage with the Waffles theme scored 99% when tested using Lighthouse Desktop (Navigation). It then scored 98% on mobile devices.
