Ananke is a flexible, production-ready starter theme for Hugo focused on accessibility, performance, and maintainable defaults.
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Themainbranch is maintained for Hugo v0.146.0+.
- For Hugo v0.128.1 to v0.145.0, use branch
release/v2.12.- For older Hugo versions, use a matching tag from the releases page.
Ananke supports both installation methods:
If you are new to Hugo, see Hugo's official quick start: gohugo.io/getting-started/quick-start.
After installation, use these guides to configure your site:
Find older changelog entries in .github/changelog-old.md
Thanks for helping improve Ananke. This document describes the current contribution workflow for this repository.
i18n/*.tomlconfig/_default/module.toml for the current state).bash npm install
npm run instead of just calling hugo server:bash npm run server
This runs the documentation site from site/ using contents from docs/ with local configuration.
hugo version, OS, browser if relevant).bash npm run lint:markdown
hugo or hugo server in the relevant project).Fixes #123).Documentation lives in multiple places:
README.mdCONTRIBUTING.mddocs/Please keep links relative where possible and remove stale references when updating pages.
By contributing, you agree that your contributions are provided under the repository license in LICENSE.md.
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