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</code></pre></div><p><strong>Note</strong>: You may use <code>--branch v3.0</code> to end of above command if you want to stick to specific release.</p><blockquote><p>Updating theme :</p><divclass=highlight><prestyle=color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4><codeclass=language-bashdata-lang=bash>cd themes/PaperMod
</code></pre></div></blockquote><h3id=method-2>Method 2<ahiddenclass=anchoraria-hidden=truehref=#method-2>#</a></h3><p>you can use as <ahref=https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/git-submodule>submodule</a> with</p><divclass=highlight><prestyle=color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4><codeclass=language-bashdata-lang=bash>git submodule add https://github.com/adityatelange/hugo-PaperMod.git themes/PaperMod --depth<spanstyle=color:#f92672>=</span><spanstyle=color:#ae81ff>1</span>
git submodule update --init --recursive <spanstyle=color:#75715e># needed when you reclone your repo (submodules may not get cloned automatically)</span>
</code></pre></div><p><strong>Note</strong>: You may use <code>--branch v4.0</code> to end of above command if you want to stick to specific release.</p><blockquote><p>Updating theme :</p><divclass=highlight><prestyle=color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4><codeclass=language-bashdata-lang=bash>git submodule update --remote --merge
</code></pre></div></blockquote><h3id=method-3>Method 3<ahiddenclass=anchoraria-hidden=truehref=#method-3>#</a></h3><p>Or you can Download as Zip from Github Page and extract in your themes directory</p><p>Direct Links:</p><ul><li><ahref=https://github.com/adityatelange/hugo-PaperMod/archive/master.zip>Master Branch (Latest)</a></li><li><ahref=https://github.com/adityatelange/hugo-PaperMod/archive/v4.0.zip>v4.0</a></li><li><ahref=https://github.com/adityatelange/hugo-PaperMod/archive/v3.0.zip>v3.0</a></li><li><ahref=https://github.com/adityatelange/hugo-PaperMod/archive/v2.0.zip>v2.0</a></li><li><ahref=https://github.com/adityatelange/hugo-PaperMod/archive/v1.0.zip>v1.0</a></li></ul><h3id=finally->Finally …<ahiddenclass=anchoraria-hidden=truehref=#finally->#</a></h3><p>Add in <code>config.yml</code>:</p><divclass=highlight><prestyle=color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4><codeclass=language-ymldata-lang=yml><spanstyle=color:#f92672>theme</span>: <spanstyle=color:#e6db74>"PaperMod"</span>
<spanstyle=color:#f92672>env</span>: <spanstyle=color:#ae81ff>production</span><spanstyle=color:#75715e># to enable google analytics, opengraph, twitter-cards and schema.</span>
<spanstyle=color:#f92672>hidden</span>: <spanstyle=color:#66d9ef>true</span><spanstyle=color:#75715e># hide everywhere but not in structured data</span>
<spanstyle=color:#f92672>hiddenInList</span>: <spanstyle=color:#66d9ef>true</span><spanstyle=color:#75715e># hide on list pages and home</span>
<spanstyle=color:#f92672>hiddenInSingle</span>: <spanstyle=color:#66d9ef>true</span><spanstyle=color:#75715e># hide on single page</span>
<spanstyle=color:#f92672>alt</span>: <spanstyle=color:#e6db74>"<alt text>"</span><spanstyle=color:#75715e># alt text</span>
<spanstyle=color:#f92672>caption</span>: <spanstyle=color:#e6db74>"<text>"</span><spanstyle=color:#75715e># display caption under cover</span>
<spanstyle=color:#f92672>relative</span>: <spanstyle=color:#66d9ef>false</span><spanstyle=color:#75715e># when using page bundles set this to true</span>
<spanstyle=color:#f92672>hidden</span>: <spanstyle=color:#66d9ef>true</span><spanstyle=color:#75715e># only hide on current single page</span>
</code></pre></div><p>You can use it by creating <code>archetypes/post.md</code></p><divclass=highlight><prestyle=color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4><codeclass=language-shelldata-lang=shell>hugo new --kind post <name>
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