Migrate from HB Starter Theme

December 1, 2023 1 min read Docs Migration

This guide shows how to migrate to the HB cards theme from the HB starter theme.

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You can migrate to cards theme from the starter theme effortlessly within two steps.

Import the Cards Theme Module

You’ll ve to put the module github.com/hbstack/theme-cards on the top, to make sure that the cards theme gets higher priority.

hugo.toml

1[module]
2[[module.imports]]
3    path = 'github.com/hbstack/theme-cards'

hugo.yaml

1module:
2  imports:
3  - path: github.com/hbstack/theme-cards

hugo.json

1{
2   "module": {
3      "imports": [
4         {
5            "path": "github.com/hbstack/theme-cards"
6         }
7      ]
8   }
9}

To make the carousel to take whole row on homepage, you’ll need to tweak the position of pinned posts.

params.toml

1[hb]
2  [hb.blog]
3    [hb.blog.home]
4      pinned_posts_position = 'list'

params.yaml

1hb:
2  blog:
3    home:
4      pinned_posts_position: list

params.json

1{
2   "hb": {
3      "blog": {
4         "home": {
5            "pinned_posts_position": "list"
6         }
7      }
8   }
9}