Make customizing of index page meta tags easier. about hugo-hero-theme HOT 11 CLOSED

We can keep it open for a bit until the real solution is in place.

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thanks for all your help so far mate, really appreciate it!

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will do.

Thing is currently the live demo is basically a duplicate of the theme which lives in a separate repo. Normally I work on that repo and deploy the changes to netlify. Then I just copy over the files using a build script into this themes repo. So some of the data that is unique to the live demo is getting copied over where it shouldn't. I just need to make this process a little bit more efficient, I don't enjoy having to manually edit the files for the theme every time I deploy.

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One way to go about this within Hugo would be assigning an Enviroment Variable for Netlify and then in your theme's templates you use the getenv function to have these meta tags called as you need them.

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I'm already using a Netlify environment variables for the google analytics code (maybe on another theme). So yeah this is a nice approach.

It's more about having to manage 2 separate repos.

But I'm just looking at your pull request where you added themesDir = "../.." to the exampleSite/config.toml - It seems like I can actually run hugo from the exampleSite directory on my local and the site runs using the example content!

This makes me think I can probably just deploy to Netlify from this theme repo. On Netlify the hugo command needs to be run from the root of the repo but maybe I can do something like below as the build command

hugo --config exampleSite/config.toml --contentDir exampleSite/content --themesDir ../

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I've removed the meta tags that had the live demo data just so it doesn't pollute things for anyone who uses the theme right now. I'll work on a more permanent solution.

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Ok. 👍

I'm closing this issue.

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What I really want to do is.

Be able to work with just this repo. And this repo should only be the theme so it's compatible with hugoThemes.

Clone this repo to my local and run hugo server and see the working site with the real example content without having to put it inside an existing hugo project and copy the exampleSite to the root.

Be able to git push to this repo and have it build on Netlify using hugo or hugo with a bunch of cli config options.

be able to have unique live demo data, that is not included in the repo >_<

be able to submit this repo to Netlify themes, and make it compatible with the 1 click deploy

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be able to have unique live demo data, that is not included in the repo >_<

Currently there is gohugoio/hugo#5074
When it is resolved generating pages from data sources will be a lot easier.

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The meta tags are now configured in the config.toml

[params]
  google_analytics_id=""

  [params.homepage_meta_tags]
    meta_description = "Hero is a multipurpose Hugo theme with fullscreen hero images and fullwidth sections. It contains content types for a business or portfolio site."
    meta_og_title = "Hugo Hero Theme"
    meta_og_type = "website"
    meta_og_url = "https://hugo-hero.netlify.com"
    meta_og_image = "https://github.com/JugglerX/hugo-hero-theme/blob/master/images/tn.png"
    meta_og_description = "Hero is a multipurpose Hugo theme with fullscreen hero images and fullwidth sections. It contains content types for a business or portfolio site."
    meta_twitter_card = "summary"
    meta_twitter_site = "@zerostaticio"
    meta_twitter_creator = "@zerostaticio"

I have also added instructions in the README.MD on how to update these.

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Great! :+1

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