The Knowing Less theme is a HUGO theme for podcasts.

中文说明

• Responsive: Elegant responsive double column layout.
• Design for podcast: Support generate podcast RSS feed from published episodes automatically and has many podcast related options.
• Multi-languages support: currently zh-CN, zh-TW, en and de, PR welcome.
• Dark mode support

Clone it to themes/knowing-less:

git clone https://github.com/LGiki/hugo-theme-knowing-less themes/knowing-less

Or if you already have a git repo in your site folder and don't want to make any changes to this theme, you can add it as a submodule:

git submodule add https://github.com/LGiki/hugo-theme-knowing-less themes/knowing-less

Copy the config.toml file from exampleSite folder to the root folder of your Hugo site:

cp themes/knowing-less/exampleSite/config.toml hugo.toml

Feel free to change it.

Following needs to be changed in config.toml, not all config needs customization, you just change what you need.

If you want to display some links in the sidebar, set it like following:

[[menu.main]]
  name = "Episodes"
  weight = 20
  identifier = "episodes"
  url = "/episode/"
[[menu.main]]
  name = "Tags"
  weight = 30
  identifier = "tags"
  url = "/tags/"
[[menu.main]]
  name = "Categories"
  weight = 40
  identifier = "categories"
  url = "/categories/"

You can configure the social links in the sidebar like following:

[[params.links]]
  title = "Apple Podcast"
  fontAwesomeIcon = "fas fa-podcast"
  link = "https://example.org"
  svg = ""

If you leave the link field blank, this link will not displayed in the sidebar.

You can specify icon by fontAwesome or svg field:

• If using fontAwesome, simply fill the fontAwesome field with class name of icon. For example:

  fontAwesomeIcon = "fas fa-podcast"

• If using svg, you need put your SVG icon to static/icons/, then specify the svg field. For example:

  svg = "/icons/cosmos.svg"

This theme also support show WeChat Official Account QR code in sidebar, you can set weChatQRCode as your WeChat Official Account QR code image URL, when you mouse over the WeChat link in the sidebar, will display this QR code automatically.

• Podcast Title

  Specify the title field to set the podcast title.

• Podcast Author

  Set podcast author like following:

  [author]
    name = "LGiki"
    email = "[email protected]"

• Podcast Cover Image

  Specify the podcastImage field with image URL to set the podcast cover image.

• Podcast Category

  Set podcast category like following:

  [[params.podcastCategory]]
    title = "Society & Culture"
    subTitle = "Personal Journals"
  [[params.podcastCategory]]
    title = "Society & Culture"
    subTitle = "Relationships"
  [[params.podcastCategory]]
    title = "Society & Culture"
    subTitle = "Documentary"

This theme will automatically generate podcast RSS feed from published episodes. The generated RSS feed link will be displayed in the sidebar.

If your podcast already has an RSS feed link and you don't want to use the RSS feed generated by this theme, you can specify podcastRSS field with your own RSS feed link, then the link you set will displayed in the sidebar.

For this theme, you should use episode instead of posts:

hugo new episode/your-title-here.md

If you make any changes to this theme, please commit them first. You can only pull when your workspace is clean.

Then use git pull to get the newest commits, if there is a conflict, merge it manually:

cd ./themes/knowing-less
git pull

The archetypes/default.md shows all available parameters. Copy this file to the archetypes folder in the root of your Hugo site, then new episode will use this template automatically.

Podcast related front matter as following:

coverImage: ""
enclosureURL: ""
enclosureType: ""
enclosureLength: ""
author: ""
# The duration can be either string or integer (in seconds), for example:
# If set duration to 12345 will displayed 03:25:45
# If set duration to "12:34" will displayed 12:34
duration: 0
hiddenFromRSS: false

• coverImage

  Episode cover image URL.

• enclosure

  There are three enclosure related parameters:

  • enclosureURL: episode audio file URL.

  • enclosureType: episode audio file MIME type, e.g., audio/x-m4a, audio/mpeg.

  • enclosureLength: episode audio file length (in bytes).

  These parameters are used to generate podcast RSS feed and also for the player in the episode page.

  For example, if set enclosure related parameters like this:

  enclosureURL: "https://example.org/episode1.mp3"
  enclosureType: "audio/mpeg"
  enclosureLength: "123456"

  Will generated in RSS feed as following:

  <enclosure url="https://example.org/episode1.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" length="123456" />

• author

  Episode author.

• duration

  The duration can be either string or integer (in seconds), for example:

  • If you set the duration to 12345, will displayed as 03:25:45
  • If you set the duration to "12:34", will displayed as "12:34"

• hiddenFromRSS

  If you set this parameter to true, the episode will not appear in the generated RSS feed.

This theme provides player shortcode for insert podcast player into posts.

The usage of player is:

{{% player "Title here" "Author here" "Cover image URL here" "Audio file URL here" %}}

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