Hello,
I test my website with PageSpeed Insights : https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?hl=fr&url=https%3A%2F%2Fnextcloudbox.netlify.app%2F

The result is bad (47/50) :

The JavaScript delivered by the CDN is very low to load and the recommendation is to Remove unused JavaScript.
Is it possible to set the loading in last of the entire web site to improve the PageSpeed Insights score ?

Moreover, an other recommendation is to Eliminate render-blocking resources which include the following :

/css?family=Droid+Serif:400%7cJosefin+Sans:300,400,600,700(fonts.googleapis.com)
…bootstrap/bootstrap.min.css(nextcloudbox.netlify.app)
…themefisher-font/themefisher-font.min.css(nextcloudbox.netlify.app)
…slick/slick.min.css(nextcloudbox.netlify.app)
…default/snipcart.css(cdn.snipcart.com)
/scss/style.min.css(nextcloudbox.netlify.app)
...

Another recommendation is to :

• Ensure text remains visible during webfont load
• Does not use passive listeners to improve scrolling performance
• Serve static assets with an efficient cache policy

Could you verify each Google recommendation on my web site and improve the theme to optimize it?
The modifications you will implements will optimize also others people theme.
Thanks.

Checked mobile view of the live demo and all text and images are overlapping

Hello,
I want to send my sitemap to Google Search Console but when I send it, I have an error because the sitemap.xml is not valid according to Google. It's not a problem of SEO but validity of sitemap.xml file :

This is the details :

This is the sitemap generated by the theme :
https://nextcloudbox.netlify.app/fr/sitemap.xml
https://nextcloudbox.netlify.app/en/sitemap.xml

Hi,

Thank you for a great theme!

How can I go about adding buttons on the page(s) using the official Play Store and App Store graphics (with links to the stores) on the home page in the different sections?

I would like to do this in the banner section and in the promo section.

Thanks!

Thanks for sharing the wonderful theme.
We want to disable the snipcart globally, like the cart icon in menu and the add to cart button, is there any parameter to control the enable/disable this feature?

Hello,

1. Please edit exampleSite/data/fr/homepage.yml

Change

testimonial:
  enable : true
  title : "Watch Review"

to

testimonial:
  enable : true
  title : "French Review"

2. Go back to homepage
3. Switch to French
4. Scroll down, until you see the review displaying "French Review"
5. Now click on Review on the menu.

The language switches back to English and the review displays Watch Review instead of French Review.

This should really just scroll down to the same French page, not switching it back to English.

Many Thanks,
Houman

I have built a site off vex, made some changes (e.g. changed font of theme to Helvetica) and deployed to netlify and all looks good.

When I try to launch my forked local repository with hugo server I get Error: module "vex-hugo" not found; either add it as a Hugo Module or store it in "/xxxx/project/exampleSite/themes".: module does not exist.

I have cloned vex-hugo into /xxxx/ and then it launches with hugo server --themesDir ../.. but it's using the theme in the /xxxx/vex-hugo folder, not the theme in /xxxx/project so it's not taking the styling. However netlify is fine.

I'm new to hugo, any clues what's going on? Thanks

There is a request open in the Hugo Discourse about the # that is added to all URLs. I tried to find what script does this but failed... Any idea? Is there a way to disable the #? It does not seem to have any function further down the road.

https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/hugo-vex-theme-remove-from-url/29624

Hello,
I use snipcart in test mode. I not modify URL, just created my products. When I want to buy an article, I have the message : "Order couldn’t be processed"

How can I fix it ?
Thanks.

I would like to add navigation menu items to scroll to different areas of the current page instead of taking me to other pages. The config.toml file specifies these as:

[[menu.main]]
name = "About Us"
URL = "blog"
weight = 3

When I change the url to "#blog" to point to an internal link, the website does not compile with that hashtag, but a "/" gets inserted automatically.

How can I point to internal links from the navigation menu and once I get that working, should I add the internal element into one of the html partials in the theme configuration?

Thank you for your help!

I have found a bug.

When entering the Google Analytics in config.toml the vex-huge theme is loading two analytics.js on top and bottom of <head> tag.

<head>
<script async src="https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js"></script>
...
<script type="application/javascript">...</script>
<script type="application/javascript">...</script>
<script async src="https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js"></script>
</head>

It's very easy to reproduce:

1) Download the Vex-hugo https://github.com/themefisher/vex-hugo.git
2) vim ./vex-hugo/exampleSite/config.toml
set -> googleAnalytics = "UA-111111111-1" 
and save.
3) cd ./vex-hugo/exampleSite
4) hugo server --themesDir ../..

Thanks,
Houman

Hello,
I would like to set Fr language by default on my web site. I don't want to set manually Fr instead of En.
How to do that ?
Thanks.

I cannot get the hugo theme to display properly when I run hugo server
Essentially, all I have done is clone the theme into the themes folder, and copied the example site config.toml file over to the sites main directory. When I do so, the webpage looks like this. How do I fix this?

Hi,

I am new to hugo and trying to understand how I can install and use this theme on a skeleton site? The installation instructions don't make much sense, I'm afraid :(

Thanks!

Does someone try to convert hugo-vex in multilingual theme ?
Trying to use the data files method with no success...
Help needed ;)

Hello,
After added my form information for MailChimp, when I click on Subscribe button, I am redirected to a broken link : Page Not Found.
How can I fix it ?
Thanks.

Hi Somrat,

I tried adding Google Analytics by just adding the code in the correct variable in config.toml but I could not get it to work. Running google's tags extension it found 2 errors and one warning. I've tried to investigate and can see two references in head.html to google_analytics.html and google_analytics_async.html but cannot locate those files. Are they supposed to be bundled with the theme or is this a bug? What am I missing?

Thank you for your help. I've added you to an issue on my repo with a couple of screenshots to further illustrate the problem.

Hello,
Why vex-hugo don't generate a robot.txt file with inside URL of the sitemap ?
The content normally should be :

Sitemap: http://the_address_of_the_site/sitemap.xml
User-agent:*
Disallow:

Could you add this functionality ? If you can't, please can you tell me how can I put it ?
Thanks.

Hey guys,

I tried to sort it out for a bit but didn’t get much without messing around with the templates. Is there a better solution? Isn’t it structure related?

Hi, I'm trying to open some links from homepage.yml in a new tab. Example

In homepage.yml section:
content : " Some content [link](https://example.com] more content"

In partial.html:
{{ .content | markdownify }}

I have tried the .../layouts/_default/_markup/render-link.html workaround for Goldmark, but it does not work when passing the content through the short code as done in vex-hugo theme.

Thanks for your help!

Hello,
When I use the french version of the site and after a click on Home button, I am redirected on :
https://mywebsite.netlify.app/fr/the-where-i-was/fr/
and not
https://mywebsite.netlify.app/fr/
How to fix it ?
Thanks.

Thanks for a great theme.
I'd like to request an option to pass a data url to <action="#" class="w-100"> as well as something like netlify. Maybe an optional "custom parameter"?

Looks like an easy fix, I'm wondering if I'm missing something?

Hello,
I use snipcart in test mode. I not modify URL, just created my products and added. When I want to buy an article, I have the message : "Domain crawling error".

I already added my domain on snipcart :

How can I fix it ?
Thanks.

Hello,
I just set the location in the contact page, not the phone and mail. The problem is the logo are not removed :

How to fix it ?
Thanks.

I want to add some other payment method and customize the client details fields. How do I do that?

I have been trying to implement the multilingual features of the template, and it only appears to apply to the post content. I can't seem to get the navigation menu to be multilingual. Am I missing something here?

Hello,

To simplify the steps, lets give French a Right-To-Left direction. But the same happens when using Persian or Arabic.

1. Download the Vex-hugo https://github.com/themefisher/vex-hugo.git
2. vim ./vex-hugo/exampleSite/config.toml
3. Scroll down to French and add LanguageDirection = "rtl"
4. Open layouts/_default/baseof.html and change the html line to

<html lang="{{ with site.Language.Lang }}{{ . }}{{ else }}en-US{{ end }}" dir="{{ site.Language.LanguageDirection | default "ltr" }}">

Because the current one is wrong. It doesn't inject the language and direction. (That's another bug that you can fix if you like. But the real issue is below)

5. Open Products, click on a watch. As you see there is no slider.

You can open the source code and change <html lang="fr" dir="rtl"> to <html lang="fr" dir="ltr"> and the slider appears again. :-)

I think this is a bug in the javascript, but I'm not sure.

Thanks,
Houman

Hello,
I can't validate a transaction with Snipcart because the URL don't respects the structure :

According the documentation : https://docs.snipcart.com/v3/setup/order-validation
Snipcart needs a structure like that : https://mysite.com/products/1 and I have https://mysite.netlify.app/products/product-6/
Also, Snipcart needs a metadata : data-item-url and I haven't that.

Could you check where is my error on the configuration of the site ? This is the URL :
https://nextcloudbox.netlify.app/products/
This is the repo : https://github.com/nextcloudbox/nextcloudbox
Thanks.

Hi sir or madam,

I download the vex-hugo and use the themes. However, there were nothing after i run the code "hugo server --theme=vex-hugo —buildDrafts".

if i should install the Bootstrap 4 before the vex-hugo applied. i don't know how to install or use this themes. Could you please give some detailed guide or code for MAC?

Thanks
Hemi

Hi,

I was finding that when I used this theme, there was an issue with the stylesheet causing the different elements of the page to overlap when viewed on a phone or tablet- features being printed overtop the promo etc.

changing the .hero-area from vh to % solved it, eg:

.hero-area {
  height: 90%;

Cheers

Hi, I'm trying to add line breaks on a subtitle element on the homepage.yml file but cannot figure out how to force a line break. I have tried inserting
,
, \n, |

subtitle : "I want a line break here.
Thanks!"

Thank you for your help :)