A Hugo theme for [Reveal.js](https://revealjs.com/) that allows you to have multiple slides per markdown file. With it, you can turn any of your Hugo content into a presentation by adding `Reveal` to its output formats.
The motivation behind creating this theme is pretty simple - I didn't want to have to manage one markdown file for every slide, which would add the overhead of coming up with a file name, setting a `weight` param in the front matter to keep it in order, etc, all for just a few lines of text. Instead, I like to organize groups of slides into a smaller number of markdown files, each representing a section of the presentation.
Visit [https://dzello.com/reveal-hugo/](https://dzello.com/reveal-hugo/) to see a presentation created with this theme. You can also check out this exact repository [deployed to Netlify](https://reveal-hugo.netlify.com/).
To add more slides, just add content to `_index.md` or create new markdown files in `content/home`. Remember that each slide must be separated by `---` with blank lines above and below.
To create a presentation that lives at the site root, create a `content/_index.md` file and specify that the `Reveal` output format should be used in the front matter:
Content for this presentation can come from `_index.md`, files in the `home` directory, or any content file whose type is set to `home` in the front matter.
Use the `weight` param in the front matter to specify the order that content from these files should appear in the presentation, knowing that content from `_index.md` will always come first.
To create a presentation for the content of any section of your Hugo site, just add `Reveal` to its list of `outputFormats` in the front matter of `section/_index.md`:
Section presentations will include content from each file in that section. Again, use the `weight` param to order the sections, knowing that any content in `_index.md` will come first.
Presentations can use a different Reveal.js theme by specifying the `reveal_theme` parameter in the front matter of the section's `_index.md` file.
If your Hugo site already has a theme but you'd like to create a presentation from some of its content, that's very easy. First, manually copy a few files out of this theme into a few of your site's directories:
Now you can add `outputs = ["Reveal"]` to the front matter of any section's `_index.md` file and that section's content will be combined into a presentation and written to `index.html`. If you already have a `index.html` page for that section, just change the `baseName` above to `reveal` and the presentation will be placed in a `reveal.html` file instead.
Note: If you specify `outputs = ["Reveal"]` for a single content file, you can prevent anything being generated for that file. This is handy if you other default layouts that would have created a regular HTML file from it. Only the list file is required for the presentation.
Fragments are a Reveal.js concept that lets you introduce content into each slide incrementally. Borrowing the idea from [hugo-theme-revealjs](https://github.com/RealOrangeOne/hugo-theme-revealjs) (thanks!), you can use a `fragment` shortcode to accomplish this in reveal-hugo in the same way.