first a lot of playing was necessary to see that

  • Hokus writes posts in content/posts/postname/index.md ( whereas e.g. Lipi just creates content/posts/postname.md )

  • Hokus lets you edit links (where Lipi fails)

  • Hokus might not properly import your theme so you might manually edit config.toml/yaml

A custom footer was enabled by creating layouts/partials/extended_footer.html and just inserting custom HTML code

Search engines were added by putting BingSiteAuth.xml and google123456789abcde.html and yandex_123456789abcde.html into the /static folder

The og:image and favicon was adjusted by inserting the following lines in config.toml:

cover = "images/yourimage.png"
favicon = "images/yourimage.png"

to make google and other search images display a text that is NOT the text of the most recent post,

a file called content/_index.md had to be created

since the use of raw html was partially necessary ( to make logo appear ), [this tutorial](https://anaulin.org/blog/hugo-raw-html-shortcode/ Hugo Shortcode howto) was applied by:

mkdir layouts/shortcodes/

and then creating layouts/shortcodes/rawhtml.html with the following content:

<!-- raw html -->
{{.Inner}}

so one could use the following in the content/_index.md file

+++
framed = true
+++

{ { < rawhtml >}}
<div style="float: right">
{ {< /rawhtml >}}
    ![Bash-Stack Logo ](/images/b4sh-st4ck-66px.png)
{ {< rawhtml >}}
</div>
{ {< /rawhtml >}}
#### The place for all common bash problems and b4sh-l1b !

(the space between { { is not used in the real file )

since Hokus fails to insert a real ISO8601 timestamp in current version (2020-10) instead of just a simple date, “fix-pubdate.sh” script was introduced:

#!/bin/bash
for post in $(grep -rl "^pubdate" content/posts |grep md$);do
    echo Verifying date of ${post} ;
    ##check for short pubdate
    if [ $(grep ^pubdate ${post}|wc -c) -lt 25 ];then
         echo fixing ${post};
         test -f ${post}.pubdate && datestring=$(cat ${post}.pubdate );
         test -f ${post}.pubdate || datestring='pubdate = "'$(date -r ${post} "+%m-%d-%Y %H:%M:%S")'"';
         test -f ${post}.pubdate || ( echo no pubdate file..creating  ;echo $datestring > ${post}.pubdate );
         
         sed 's/^pubdate.\+/'$datestring'/g' -i "${post}"
    else
        echo valid pubdate in ${post};
        test -f ${post}.pubdate || ( echo no pubdate file ..creating  ;grep ^pubdate ${post} > ${post}.pubdate );

    fi;
done

the .gitlab-ci.yml had to be modified:

image: registry.gitlab.com/pages/hugo/hugo_extended

variables:
  GIT_SUBMODULE_STRATEGY: recursive

pages:
  script:
  - apk add bash
  - /bin/bash -c "bash fix-pubdate.sh"
  - hugo
  artifacts:
    paths:
    - public
  only:
  - master