Configuration on Ananke Documentation

General Configuration

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[!IMPORTANT] Please note that Hugo is extensible configurable with more generic or more specific configuration. Please read the documentation about configuration files and configuration directories to learn more about this topic. Whenever Ananke’s documentation refers to the configuration file it refers to any of these possible locations.

Ananke’s sample repositories are using configuration directories and you can find all referred configuration parameters in config/_default/hugo.toml and config/_default/params.toml.

Activate the contact form

This theme includes a shortcode for a contact form that you can add to any page (there is an example on the contact page in the exampleSite folder). One option is to use formspree.io as proxy to send the actual email. Each month, visitors can send you up to fifty emails without incurring extra charges. Visit the Formspree site to get the “action” link and add it to your shortcode like this:

SEO

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Content indexing

If the theme is run in production, pages will be indexed by search engines. To prevent indexing on some given pages, add private: true to its Front Matter.

Social Media Networks

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Ananke automatically adds “follow” link icons to the header and footer and “Share” link icons to pages unless the disable_share parameter is set to true either on the site level (site params) or page level (front matter). Each services can show a label, an icon, and be formatted in a custom color.

MIGRATION: Read about how to migrate below in the Section Migrate from versions before v2.11

Configuration

All configuration of Ananke’s social media features is located under the ananke.social section in your websites params section. This can be found at one of the following locations: