Gotham Linux QuickStart

Create a Gotham site using the hugo-coder theme.

It is recommended to have Git installed to run this tutorial.

Step 1: Install Gotham

This guide assumes you are using Ubuntu 18.04 LTS or later. Snap, the app store for Linux, is already installed on these versions. You can learn more here: snapcraft.io.

sudo snap install gotham

To verify your new install:

gotham version

Step 2: Create a New Site

gotham new site my-site

The above will create a new Gotham site in a folder named my-site.

Step 3: Initialize your New Site

cd my-site/
git init

The above will navigate you to the folder you just created and initialize it as a git repository.

Step 4: Add a Theme

See themes.gohugo.io for a list of themes to consider. This QuickStart uses the hugo-coder theme.

Clone the theme from GitHub and add it as a submodule to your site’s themes directory:

git submodule add https://github.com/luizdepra/hugo-coder.git themes/hugo-coder

Step 5: Copy over the theme Contents

Copy the example contents of the theme into your project to get started:

cp -r ./themes/hugo-coder/exampleSite/ . 

You will need to edit or remove most of the contents added to make this site your own. We will review this further in the steps below.

Step 6: Start the Gotham server

Now, start the Gotham server:

gotham serve --open

                   | EN | PT-BR  
-------------------+----+--------
  Pages            | 48 |    21  
  Paginator pages  |  0 |     0  
  Non-page files   |  0 |     0  
  Static files     |  4 |     4  
  Processed images |  0 |     0  
  Aliases          | 17 |     7  
  Sitemaps         |  2 |     1  
  Cleaned          |  0 |     0  

Built in 251 ms
Watching for changes in /Users/mibragimchayev/repos/sandbox/my-site/{archetypes,assets,content,data,layouts,static,themes}
Watching for config changes in /Users/mibragimchayev/repos/sandbox/my-site/config.toml
Environment: "development"
Serving pages from memory
Running in Fast Render Mode. For full rebuilds on change: gotham server --disableFastRender
Web Server is available at http://localhost:1313/ (bind address 127.0.0.1)
Opening in browser.
Press Ctrl+C to stop

The website will open automatically in your default browser because you used the –open flag in the above command. You can also navigate to your new site manually at http://localhost:1313/.

Feel free to edit or add new content, Gotham will automatically refresh the browser so you can see changes quickly.

Step 7: Customize your New Site

Your new site already looks great, but you will want to tweak it a little before you release it to the public.

Site Configuration

Open up config.toml in a text editor:

Replace the title, author, and other parameters with your own information. Also, if you already have a domain ready, set the baseURL. Note that this value is not needed when running the local development server.

For theme specific configuration options, see the theme site.

For further theme customization, see Customize a Theme.

Step 8: Build static pages

It is simple. Just call:

gotham

The output will be in ./public/ directory by default. Use the -d/--destination flag to change it or set publishDir in the config file.