A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

OriginStart is a responsive theme for Hugo which is forked and modified from freshstart. OriginStart provides you a clean and easy-to-use start page for your Internet experience.

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• Responsive design
• Custom search engines
• Poetry sentences
• Custom theme color & background
• Blur theme (not compatible with all browsers)
• Weather plugin
• Inject CSS & JS

For using blur theme on Firefox: if you are using Firefox, your need to configure layout.css.backdrop-filter.enabled to true to enable the blur effects.

1. Open about:config in Firefox browser;
2. Search the option layout.css.backdrop-filter.enabled and set it to true;
3. Reload your site.

useBlur: false

useBlur: true

• Basic command line & git skills
• Git installed
• Hugo (version >= 0.74.3) installed
• A text editor you like

Inside your Hugo site directory run:

$ git submodule add https://github.com/SylleoYr/hugo-theme-OriginStart themes/OriginStart

Copy the contents in the exampleSite directory into your site root directory, and then:

To preview:

$ hugo server

Then open http://localhost:1313 in your browser to preview the site.

To build:

$ hugo
# or
$ hugo --minify

It will generate the static files in the public directory.

See config.yaml.

ℹ️ Note: the example site is prompted with a message, please disable it in your production environment:

• please delete alert.js in static/js/ directory,
• or set the activated property of Alert of customJS to false, or delete this item.

Thanks to the following projects (unordered):

• Font Awesome
• Hugo
• freshstart
• Hitokoto
• 今日诗词
• HeWeather
• ribbon.js
• The search engine list style refers to CrazyBoyM/geeknav.

This project is licensed under MIT.