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Add a Hugo theme

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- [Narrator] Hugo uses packages called themes to let you easily change the look and feel of your site or start with a prebuilt look and feel. You can see a list of themes on the web on themes.gohugo.io. In this course, we'll use a theme called Minimalist. To install this theme, we need to download the theme files into our Hugo project. To start, I can right-click on this download link and choose Copy Link Address. Then I'll switch over to PowerShell. I'm still here in my Hugo Project folder, and I can run a git command called git submodule add, and then paste in that link that I copied to the Minimalist theme files. And finally, I need to specify that these files should be downloaded into the themes/hugo-minimalist-theme folder. When I switch back to my editor, I can see that in my themes folder, I have a new folder called hugo.minimalist-theme. And there's one thing I need to do to finish installing this theme. If I open up the exampleSite folder and then the data folder there's this…

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