Support themesDir option

[sebholstein]

I would like to configure where my themes are located. Currently the "themes" dir name is hardcoded (path.go#L213) and not configurable. My proposal is to add a themesDir option (in addition to dataDir, staticDir, etc.):

themesDir: 'assets/docs/themes'
theme: 'myTheme'

In this case, hugo would use asset/docs/themes/myTheme as the theme folder.

[spf13]

Great idea. Do you want to code it?

[sebholstein]

I'm not familiar with the codebase but I will try :-)

[AldenJole]

It seems like it might be more useful to just have a themePath option. Then I could use it like hugo server --themePath . --source exampleSite during theme development.

[spf13]

@AldenJole I like that idea as well. Not sure which one is better. Probably yours, it's simpler. Is there a valid use case for the themeDir approach if we have themePath?

[AldenJole]

Eventually we might be able to replace the whole themeDir concept with themePath and then just put them in themes by convention. Then the config option would look like theme = "themes/<theme-name>". That would also give use the ability to specify remote themes, e.g., github projects.

[spf13]

I agree. I like this much better.

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On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Alden Jole [email protected]
wrote:

Eventually we might be able to replace the whole themeDir concept with
themePath and then just put them in themes by convention. Then the config
option would look like theme = "themes/". That would also
give use the ability to specify remote themes, e.g., github projects.

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[AldenJole]

We might be able to figure out a reasonable way to parse the theme option to figure out if it's a path or not.

[moorereason]

Fixed by #2817

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