Solus Site

Static, Hugo-based home of Solus and its projects. This website makes use of:

1. A custom theme, solus-hugo-theme.
2. Website content itself, including blog posts, in content.

Note: SASS styling is provided inside the Hugo themes and is built upon solbit.

Creation

New Post

To create a new post, change to the main directory of this repo (solus-site.github.io). From there, call hugo new PATH. The PATH format is blog/year/month/post-title/post-title.md.

For instance, to create a blog post for Feb. 2023 with the name "Welcome To The New Site", you would use: hugo new blog/2023/02/welcome-to-the-new-site/welcome-to-the-new-site.md. This would create content/blog/2023/02/welcome-to-the-new-site/welcome-to-the-new-site.md.

The markdown file will be created with our default configuration, which you can update as necessary. For metadata, most fields are self-explanatory.

• "name" - should match the name for your data file under data/team/name.yml (required)
• "featuredimage" - a relative link to an image such as "/image.png" (optional)
• "categories" is set to "news" by default. You can optionally add others.

Any featured image file must be in the same directory as the blog post.

File and directory standards

Each year has a directory, with subdirectories for each month which has content. Each post has a directory under the appropriate month. The directory and filename are the title of the post. (It's also OK to name the markdown file index.md but then you'll have to manually edit the title). As an example, as of October, the directory for 2023 looks like:

2023
├── 04
│   └── a-new-voyage
│       ├── featured-image.jpg
│       └── index.md
├── 07
│   └── solus-4-4-released
│       ├── index.md
│       └── solus-4.4-featured.jpg
├── 08
│   └── state-of-solus-august-2023
│       ├── index.md
│       └── StateOfSolusAugust2023.jpg
└── 10
    └── solus-and-hacktoberfest-2023
        ├── hf10_horz_fcd_rgb.png
        └── index.md

Example of blog post metadata

---
title: "Solus 4.4 Released"
author: "joshua"
categories:
  - news
  - releases
date: 2023-07-08T00:27:44+03:00
featuredimage: "/solus-4.4-featured.jpg"
url: "/2023/07/08/solus-4-4-released"
---

Use caution before deleting files

Files in static/imgs/release-images/ may be used outside of the website. For instance, Mailgun templates use the desktop collage graphic. Please coordinate with the Solus Team before deleting any files.

Development

Setup

To set up your Solus system for developing the website, you first need to ensure you have the necessary dependencies installed. Run make setup to install the necessary dependencies as well as init git submodules.

Next, run make sync to update the Hugo themes.

Local Server

You can start up a local server by calling make local in the solus-site directory. This will expose the site on http://127.0.0.1:1313. Use this to see your changes and make sure things look as you expect before submitting a pull request.

Note: You will not need to restart the server when doing changes. Hugo does file watching across all the things.

Deployment

Merge the main branch into deploy and push.

Styling

We use 4-char wide tabs, not spaces, in everything except the YAML files, which use 4 spaces. Sorry!

Licensing

Apache 2.0