Hugo Themes
newsroom
A simple open source theme for publishing multi-purpose content
Newsroom Theme
This is a simple, minimalistic theme, which is inspired by Apple’s Newsroom page. It uses grid css, flexbox & js (no jQuery, or related libraries).

Features
- Blog
- Modern
- Responsive
- Deeplinks
- Dark Mode
- Supports native lazy loading of images & iframes
- Syntax highlighting
Deeplinks
For all content published using markdown, deeplinks will be added to the pages so that you can share with precision :smiley: Just hover on a heading and the link button will pop. Click it to copy.
Installation
Add this theme as a Git submodule inside your Hugo site folder:
git submodule add https://github.com/onweru/newsroom.git themes/newsroom
Theme hugo sass and hugo-extended version.
Configuration
You can configure the site as follows:
-
General Information
Use
config.tomlfile. -
menu, footer
See the yaml files inside the
data/directory.
Start publishing
Follow the exampleSite/; specifically, the content directory
Dark Mode
Today, operating systems have a system-wide light ~ dark mode switch. Your website will adapt to the user’s preferred lighting mode. Still, if the user wants to opt in or out of darkmode, there’s a UI control for that too in the menu 😊.

How do I disable dark mode?
Under params add disableDarkMode = true to your config.toml file. If your site is based on the exampleSite, the value is already included; you only need to uncomment it.
⚠️ If you disable darkmode, the UI control for toggling darkmode will remain in place. This way, the user can decide which mode they would like to use while browsing your website
Custom 404 Page

Syntax highlighting

If you wish, you can opt to use Chroma.
I want to use disqus
If you like, you could use disqus on your site. To enable disqus on your site, simply, add the line below to you config.toml file. If you’re working off the exampleSite, the line is already there; just uncomment it.
disqusShortname = "yourdiscussshortname"
Remember to edit the
yourdiscussshortnameappropriately.
From your disqus dashboard, set your scripts color scheme to auto. See screenshot below

Custom Shortcodes
This theme ships with 2 custom shortcodes (they both use positional parameters):
-
Video This shortcode can be used to embed a youtube video with custom styling. It takes a solo positional parameter.
... {{< video "youtubeVideoID" >}} ... -
Picture You want to use darkmode images when darkmode is enabled on a device and a regular image on lightmode? It takes 3 positional parameter
Store these images in the
static/imagesdirectory.... {{< picture "lightModeImage.png" "darkModeImage.png" "Image alt text" >}} ...
From the same creator
License
This theme is available under the MIT license.