Overview

The Kiera Theme for Hugo is a specialized theme designed for presenting long essays or technical writing. Originally developed by b. avianto, it is now maintained by funkydan2. The theme offers a simple and clean styling, with support for various features such as image placements, code highlighting, Font Awesome icons, mathematics, commenting, and more.

Features

• Simple, ’no-nonsense’ styling
• 4 image placements with figure support using shortcodes
• Optional feature images for posts and Twitter cards
• Excellent code highlight support thanks to Hugo Chroma
• Utilizes Font Awesome for icons
• Consistent styling using normalize.css (Cloudflare CDN)
• Uses Google Fonts: Ruda (serif) and Roboto Slab (sans-serif)
• Disqus or Utterances comments loaded on demand
• Supports downloading extra Google Fonts

Installation

To install the Kiera Theme for Hugo, follow the steps below:

1. Change into your Hugo directory.
2. Run the following command to install the theme:

git submodule add https://github.com/funkydan2/hugo-kiera.git themes/hugo-kiera

3. For more detailed instructions, refer to the Hugo Docs.

Alternatively, you can update the theme using the git submodule method by running:

git submodule update --remote themes/hugo-kiera

If you prefer to use the independent directory method, delete the directory corresponding to the theme and download the latest version of the theme by cloning the repository:

git clone https://github.com/funkydan2/hugo-kiera.git themes/hugo-kiera

Summary

The Kiera Theme for Hugo is a specialized theme designed for presenting long essays or technical writing. It offers a simple and clean styling with various features such as image placements, code highlighting, Font Awesome icons, and more. The theme can be installed using the git submodule method or the independent directory method.