Announcement Bar

The announcement bar module makes important thing stand out, such as news and project’s releases.

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Site Parameters

ParameterTypeDefaultDescription
bgstringprimaryThe background color.
colorstring#fffThe text color.
intervalnumber5000The interval (in millisecond) between of announcements.
expand_stall_thresholdnumber1000How many milliseconds must elapse before considering the expansion (show all announcements) experience stalled.

hugo.toml

1[params]
2  [params.hb]
3    [params.hb.announcement_bar]
4      expand_stall_threshold = 1000
5      interval = 5000

hugo.yaml

1params:
2  hb:
3    announcement_bar:
4      expand_stall_threshold: 1000
5      interval: 5000

hugo.json

 1{
 2   "params": {
 3      "hb": {
 4         "announcement_bar": {
 5            "expand_stall_threshold": 1000,
 6            "interval": 5000
 7         }
 8      }
 9   }
10}

Announcements Data Files

This module is designed to work on both of monolingual and multilingual sites, you’ll need to create announcements data file per language under the data/announcements folder.

1$ tree data/announcements
2├── en.toml
3├── zh-hans.toml
4└── zh-hant.toml

As the output of tree shown, we defined announcements for en, zh-hans and zh-hant sites.

Announcement Properties

PropertyTypeDefaultRequiredDescription
titlestring-YThe title of announcement, support Markdown syntax.
urlstring-NThe url of the announcement.
weightnumber-NLower get higher priority.

Announcement Example

data/announcements/en.toml

 1[external]
 2  title = 'The announcement linked to external site.'
 3  url = 'https://hugomods.com/'
 4  weight = 3
 5[internal]
 6  title = 'Internal announcement.'
 7  url = 'modules/enhancement/announcement-bar'
 8  weight = 2
 9[plain]
10  title = 'A **plain** text announcement.'
11  weight = 1

data/announcements/en.yaml

 1external:
 2  title: The announcement linked to external site.
 3  url: https://hugomods.com/
 4  weight: 3
 5internal:
 6  title: Internal announcement.
 7  url: modules/enhancement/announcement-bar
 8  weight: 2
 9plain:
10  title: A **plain** text announcement.
11  weight: 1

data/announcements/en.json

 1{
 2   "external": {
 3      "title": "The announcement linked to external site.",
 4      "url": "https://hugomods.com/",
 5      "weight": 3
 6   },
 7   "internal": {
 8      "title": "Internal announcement.",
 9      "url": "modules/enhancement/announcement-bar",
10      "weight": 2
11   },
12   "plain": {
13      "title": "A **plain** text announcement.",
14      "weight": 1
15   }
16}
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