Geekblog is a simple Hugo theme for personal blogs. It is intentionally designed as a fast and lean theme and may not fit the requirements of complex projects. If a more feature-complete theme is required there are a lot of got alternatives out there. This post helps you to get started with the Geekblog theme, including initial setup and basic configuration.

Sticky (or pinned) posts can be used to permanently pin important posts to the top of the post list. The implementation is pretty simple and handled by weight: 1 in a post front matter. As there is no other logic to identify sticky posts you should not use negative values for weight as this will result in posts listed earlier.

This article offers a sample of basic Markdown syntax that can be used in Hugo content files, also it shows whether basic HTML elements are decorated with CSS in a Hugo theme.

The avatar shortcode is another custom image shortcode.