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Launching a Personal Website Using R

Configure Website Pages and Features

Explore how to configure your personal website by renaming and deleting pages, editing content using Markdown, customizing post date formats, removing unwanted language translations, and adjusting social media links. This lesson guides you through modifying Hugo theme files to personalize your site effectively.

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Important configuration files

The files listed below are referenced throughout this lesson. We’ll locate them ahead of time so that we can gain some experience navigating the website file structure. We’ll be interacting with the following files in this lesson:

  • config.yaml
  • config/_default/menus.en.toml
  • config/_default/languages.toml
  • config/_default/params.toml
  • content/english/about.md
  • themes/anatole/layouts/_default/list.html
  • themes/anatole/layouts/partials/contact.html
  • themes/anatole/i18n/en.toml

Rename, delete, and edit pages

To personalize our website, we’ll have to add, edit and delete web pages to meet our needs. Let’s see how this can be done.

Rename pages

The Hugo Anatole theme comes with the following default pages: “Home”, “Posts”, “About”, and “Contact”. To rename these pages, we can open config/_default/menus.en.toml and ...