#hugo - if I want to change something about the way my chosen theme works, I should NOT change the themes/<theme>/layouts files, instead I should copy the file(s) into layouts/ and change there, yes?

[limebar@mastodon.social]

#hugo - if I want to change something about the way my chosen theme works, I should NOT change the themes/<theme>/layouts files, instead I should copy the file(s) into layouts/ and change there, yes? no?

What is best practice?

[emeralit@toot.community]

@limebar copy and change the files you need

[clare_hooley@mastodon.me.uk]

@limebar in all honesty, I quickly gave up with that quite quickly and just forked the theme. Too many tweaks here there and everywhere for it to be worth working out what I was overriding and what was original.

[limebar@mastodon.social]

@clare_hooley thanks i was having that feeling