Academic is a framework to help you create a beautiful website quickly. Perfect for personal sites, blogs, or business/project sites. Check out the latest demo of what you’ll get in less than 10 minutes. Then head on over to the Quick Start guide or take a look at the Release Notes.
Key features:
- Easily manage various content including homepage, blog posts, publications, talks, and projects
- Extensible via color themes and widgets/plugins
- Write in Markdown for easy formatting and code highlighting, with LaTeX for mathematical expressions
- Social/academic network linking, Google Analytics, and Disqus comments
- Responsive and mobile friendly
- Simple and refreshing one page design
- Multilingual and easy to customize
Color Themes
Academic is available in different color themes and font themes.
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Install
You can choose from one of the following four methods to install:
- one-click install using your web browser (recommended)
- install on your computer using Git with the Command Prompt/Terminal app
- install on your computer by downloading the ZIP files
- install on your computer with RStudio
Quick install using your web browser
- Install Academic with Netlify
- Netlify will provide you with a customizable URL to access your new site
- On GitHub, go to your newly created
academic-kickstart
repository and editconfig.toml
to personalize your site. Shortly after saving the file, your site will automatically update - Read the Quick Start Guide to learn how to add Markdown content. For inspiration, refer to the Markdown content which powers the Demo
Install with Git
Prerequisites:
Fork the Academic Kickstart repository and clone your fork with Git:
git clone https://github.com/sourcethemes/academic-kickstart.git My_Website
Note that if you forked Academic Kickstart, the above command should be edited to clone your fork, i.e. replace
sourcethemes
with your GitHub username.Initialize the theme:
cd My_Website git submodule update --init --recursive
Install with ZIP
- Download and extract Academic Kickstart
- Download and extract the Academic theme to the
themes/academic/
folder from the above step
Install with RStudio
View the guide to installing Academic with RStudio
Quick start
If you installed on your computer, view your new website by running the following command:
hugo server
Now visit localhost:1313 and your new Academic powered website will appear. Otherwise, if using Netlify, they will provide you with your URL.
Read the Quick Start Guide to learn how to add Markdown content, customize your site, and deploy it. For inspiration, refer to the Markdown content which powers the Demo
Build your site by running the
hugo
command. Then host it for free using Github Pages or Netlify (refer to the first installation method). Alternatively, copy the generatedpublic/
directory (by FTP, Rsync, etc.) to your production web server (such as a university’s hosting service).
Updating
Feel free to star the project on Github to help keep track of updates and check out the release notes prior to updating your site.
Before updating the framework, it is recommended to make a backup of your entire website directory (or at least your themes/academic
directory) and record your current version number.
By default, Academic is installed as a Git submodule which can be updated by running the following command:
git submodule update --remote --merge
Check out the update guide for full instructions and alternative methods.
Feedback & Contributing
Please use the issue tracker to let me know about any bugs or feature requests, or alternatively make a pull request.
For support, head over to the Hugo discussion forum.
License
Copyright 2016-present George Cushen.
Released under the MIT license.