When creating this blog, I also decided to create my own theme minimal paper . At the beginning, I did not understand Hugo much and the blog was entangled with the theme and living in the same repo. The more I am maturing this site, I am also maturing the theme along with it. I want to set myself the goal of maturing it enough to feel good about it and then releasing it publically to be enjoyed by others.
For this, I set myself the following goal:
Release minimal-paper as a theme for Hugo, accessible through public repository and added to Hugo’s theme list. For this, the following things need to happen:
- Disentangle theme out of blog repository
- Mature all layouts and partials
- Homepage
- Page
- Section
- Taxonomy
- Term
- Mature configuration options
- Make color palette fully customizable
- Make fonts be customizable
- Write documentation
- Getting started page
- Reference page
- Nice first Readme
- Create public repository
- Figure out license
- Figure out included fonts
- Figure out how to add it to Hugo’s themes
Progress until now#
Most work has been done whenever I procrastinated doing other things and it has been documented in the roadmap on the minimal-paper page
. As you can see there, it is some part working on the theme and its styling and to some degree it is not related to this projects pDoD and I just implemented nice shortcodes and features.
Update from 14.08.26: I am tinkering a lot on the theme. I am changing colors, fonts and I am still not sure about the identity of my theme. Therefore, I will set this project to paused .