First, thanks for the nice theme, I'm in the process of customizing it for my own homepage.

I noticed that the background image does not cover the webpage correctly. The website either shows a part of the image (if the image is hires) or there are multiple copies of the background image tiled together (when image is lower res than screen).

I tracked it back to the commit 5b87410 in static/css/styles.css.

When I change back the comment:
body::before { /*background-image: url('{{ .Site.Params.background }}');*/

to
body::before { background-image: url("/images/background.jpg");

it works again, but of course at the cost of being able to have an arbitrary name for the background image (i.e. the background param in config.toml has no effect). I don't have an elegant solution to fix this, but maybe you do.

Perhaps decrease size on smaller devices

Hi guys, i was having some issues trying to change the default Grey - Orange MDL palette set.

So, making some adjustments i was able to fix this.

First, changing config.toml:

  mdlPrimary = "red" 
  mdlAccent = "indigo"

and in header.html

<!-- Allow user to choose MDL theme -->
    {{- if .Site.Params.mdlPrimary }}
        {{- $.Scratch.Set "mdlPrimary" .Site.Params.mdlPrimary }}
    {{- else }}
        {{- $.Scratch.Set "mdlPrimary" "grey" }}
    {{- end }}
    {{- if .Site.Params.mdlAccent }}
        {{- $.Scratch.Set "mdlAccent" .Site.Params.mdlAccent }}
    {{- else }}
        {{- $.Scratch.Set "mdlAccent" "orange" }}
    {{- end -}}

I'm not really sure if this is a problem with the version of hugo im using (v0.19 windows x64) or if is another issue, but anyway, changing this i was able to made the palette changes.

Hello @jchatkinson

I am one of the maintainers of Hugo Themes and I noticed that currently images and nav links throw 404 errors in the theme's demo.

Your theme demo is published in a subdirectory of the Hugo website.
You need to remove the first forward slash / from all URLs because it points to the host root and Hugo will not be able to generate the correct URL for these assets.

See more at the README of the Hugo themes repo.

For example in exampleSite/config.toml you need to make the following changes:

[params]
  author = "Firstname Lastname"
  avatar = "images/avatar.png"
  background = "images/background.jpg"
  description = "A place to publish my incomprehensible ramblings" #meta description
  image = "images/avatar-192x210.png" #for frontpage profile card
  mdlPrimary = "grey"
  mdlSecondary = "orange"
  website = "example.com"
  email = "[email protected]"
  twitter = "https://twitter.com/firstname_lastname"
  github = "https://github.com/firstname_lastname/"
  linkedin = "https://linkedin.com/in/firstname_lastname/"
  facebook = "https://facebook.com/firstname_lastname/"
  copyrightyear = "2015"
  frontpageposts = 6 #number of post cards to display on frontpage

# Fully customizable header menu
[[menu.main]]
  name = "Home"
  url = "/"
  weight = -200
[[menu.main]]
  name = "Articles"
  url = "post/"
  weight = -180
[[menu.main]]
  name = "Projects"
  url = "project/"
  weight = -160
[[menu.main]]
  name = "About"
  url = "about/"
weight = "-140"

Once you look into the above please let me know.

Thanks.

cc: @digitalcraftsman

would like to be able to adjust font-size and text-align for card title on each post

Hello!

$subj, when trying to run this theme against my blog source I get following:

Building sites … ERROR 2018/03/20 16:00:28 Error while rendering "home" in "": template: theme/index.html:4:20: executing "theme/index.html" at <partial "postsnippet...>: error calling partial: template: theme/partials/postsnippets.html:1:30: executing "theme/partials/postsnippets.html" at <first .Site.Params.f...>: error calling first: both limit and seq must be provided

The reason is likely some absent .Site. parameter but you can't tell it from error message, I guess input parameters handling could be improved.
Main page doesn't render, however, single post pages are rendered. hugo version:

Hugo Static Site Generator v0.37 linux/amd64 BuildDate: 2018-02-27T09:15:25Z

Since we upgraded to the latest version of hugo (0.55.4) we get a "Posts"-block (linking to the posts overview) inside our posts. In earlier version that appeared at the end only when there was set a higher number of frontpageposts than actual posts.

Hi Jeremy,

I'm struggling to figure out how I can put the generated site (using theme HugoMDL) in a subdirectory. In several places in the template code, you use something like style="background-image: url('{{ .Site.Params.background }}');"

I've tried to explain it in the discuss forum: https://discuss.gohugo.io/t/need-help-understanding-url-conversions/4294/13
Basically when I place the site under a baseurl of http://example.com/subdir/ Some links are broken, which should not happen when relativeURLs is set to true in the config.toml.

Do you have any idea if this can be fixed in the theme?

Cheers

Simon

I would like to use your theme for a blog but need support for Disqus on the post template. Please consider adding. Hugo indicates it ships with this support built in, but I couldn't figure out how to add it.