First setup using tranquilpeak with post.

.gitignore

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 themes/*
+test.md

config.toml

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-baseURL = "http://example.org/"
+# Tranquilpeak
+baseURL = "https://basdb.net/"
 languageCode = "en-us"
-title = "My New Hugo Site"
+defaultContentLanguage = "en-us"
+title = "basdb"
+theme = "hugo-tranquilpeak-theme"
+# disqusShortname = "basdb-site"
+# googleAnalytics = "UA-123-45"
+paginate = 7
+canonifyurls = true
+
+[permalinks]
+  post = "/:year/:month/:slug/"
+
+[taxonomies]
+  tag = "tags"
+  category = "categories"
+  archive = "archives"
+
+[author]
+  name = "Bastian de Byl"
+  bio = "This site serves both as my portfolio and collections of personal projects."
+  job = "Software Engineer"
+  location = "New England"
+  # Your profile picture
+  # picture = "https://cdn1.iconfinder.com/data/icons/ninja-things-1/1772/ninja-simple-512.png"
+
+# Menu Configuration
+[[menu.main]]
+  weight = 1
+  identifier = "home"
+  name = "Home"
+  pre = "<i class=\"sidebar-button-icon fa fa-lg fa-home\"></i>"
+  url = "/"
+[[menu.main]]
+  weight = 2
+  identifier = "categories"
+  name = "Categories"
+  pre = "<i class=\"sidebar-button-icon fa fa-lg fa-bookmark\"></i>"
+  url = "/categories"
+[[menu.main]]
+  weight = 3
+  identifier = "tags"
+  name = "Tags"
+  pre = "<i class=\"sidebar-button-icon fa fa-lg fa-tags\"></i>"
+  url = "/tags"
+[[menu.main]]
+  weight = 4
+  identifier = "archives"
+  name = "Archives"
+  pre = "<i class=\"sidebar-button-icon fa fa-lg fa-archive\"></i>"
+  url = "/archives"
+[[menu.main]]
+  weight = 5
+  identifier = "about"
+  name = "About"
+  pre = "<i class=\"sidebar-button-icon fa fa-lg fa-question\"></i>"
+  url = "/#about"
+
+[[menu.links]]
+  weight = 1
+  identifier = "github"
+  name = "GitHub"
+  pre = "<i class=\"sidebar-button-icon fa fa-lg fa-github\"></i>"
+  url = "https://github.com/bdebyl"
+# [[menu.links]]
+#   weight = 2
+#   identifier = "stackoverflow"
+#   name = "Stack Overflow"
+#   pre = "<i class=\"sidebar-button-icon fa fa-lg fa-stack-overflow\"></i>"
+#   url = "https://stackoverflow.com/users/636472/kakawait"
+
+# [[menu.misc]]
+#   weight = 1
+#   identifier = "rss"
+#   name = "RSS"
+#   pre = "<i class=\"sidebar-button-icon fa fa-lg fa-rss\"></i>"
+#   url = "/index.xml"
+
+[params]
+  # Customize date format use to render blog post date, categories and other
+  # You must use date format used by Go Time package https://golang.org/pkg/time/
+  # Months (not work with short month like "jan", "feb", etc) are translated if translation exists on i18n folders
+  # Default format is: January 2, 2006
+  dateFormat = "2 January 2006"
+
+  # Global keywords configuration. Following keywords will be add to every pages
+  # keywords = ["development", "next-gen"]
+
+  # Syntax highlighter, possible choice between: "highlight.js" (recommanded) and "prism.js" (experimental)
+  # You can comment it to disable syntax highlighting
+  syntaxHighlighter = "highlight.js"
+
+  # Hide sidebar on all article page to let article take full width to improve reading, and enjoy wide images and cover images. (true: enable, false: disable)
+  clearReading = true
+
+  # Define categories will create hierarchy between parents: `categories = ["foo", "bar"]` will consider "bar" a sub-category of "foo".
+  # If false it will flat categories.
+  hierarchicalCategories = true
+
+  description = "Hugo tranquilpeak theme demo"
+
+  # Customization
+  # Define the behavior of the sidebar
+  # 1: Display extra large sidebar on extra large screen, large sidebar on large screen,
+  #    medium sidebar on medium screen and header bar on small screen and
+  # extra large sidebar is swiped on extra large screen and large sidebar on all lower screen (default)
+  # 2: Display large sidebar on large screen, medium sidebar on medium screen and
+  #    header bar on small screen and large sidebar is swiped
+  # 3: Display medium sidebar on large and medium screen and header bar on small screen and
+  #    medium sidebar is swiped
+  # 4: Display header bar on all screens, extra large sidebar is swiped on extra large screen and
+  #    large sidebar is swiped on all lower screens
+  # 5: Display header bar on all screens and large sidebar is swiped on large screen
+  # 6: Display header bar on all screens and medium sidebar is swiped
+  sidebarBehavior = 1
+
+  # Your blog cover picture. I STRONGLY recommend you to use a CDN to speed up loading of pages.
+  # There is many free CDN like Cloudinary or you can also use indirectly
+  # by using services like Google Photos.
+  # Current image is on AWS S3 and delivered by AWS CloudFront.
+  # Otherwise put your image in folder `static/_images/` (development)  or in `source/assets/images/` if you can't or don't want to build the theme,
+  # and use relative url : `your-image.png`
+  coverImage = "cover.jpg"
+
+  # Display an image gallery at the end of a post which have photos variables (false: disabled, true: enabled)
+  imageGallery = true
+
+  # Display thumbnail image of each post on index pages (false: disabled, true: enabled)
+  thumbnailImage = true
+  # Display thumbnail image at the right of title in index pages (`right`, `left` or `bottom`)
+  # Set this value to `right` if you have old posts to keep the old style on them
+  # and define `thumbnailImagePosition` on a post to overwrite this setting
+  thumbnailImagePosition = "bottom"
+  # Automatically select the cover image or the first photo from the gallery of a post if there is no thumbnail image as the thumbnail image
+  # Set this value to `true` if you have old posts that use the cover image or the first photo as the thumbnail image
+  # and set `autoThumbnailImage` to `false` on a post to overwrite this setting
+  autoThumbnailImage = true
+
+  # Your favicon path, default is "/favicon.png"
+  # favicon = "/favicon.png"
+
+  # Header configuration
+  # The link at the right of the header is customizable
+  # You can add a link (as an icon) at the right of the header instead of the author's gravatar image or author's picture.
+  # By default, author's gravatar or author's picture is displayed.
+  #     url: /#search
+  #     icon: search
+  #     class: st-search-show-outputs
+
+  # Custom CSS. Put here your custom CSS files. They are loaded after the theme CSS;
+  # they have to be referred from static root. Example
+  # [[params.customCSS]]
+  #   href = "css/mystyle.css"
+
+  # Custom JS. Put here your custom JS files. They are loaded after the theme JS;
+  # they have to be referred from static root. Example
+  # [[params.customJS]]
+  #   src = "js/myscript.js"
+
+  # Display `Next` on left side of the pagination, and `Prev` on right side one.
+  # If you set this value to `true`, these positions swap.
+  # swapPaginator = true
+
+  # Sharing options
+  # Comment and uncomment to enable or disable sharing options
+  # If you wanna add a sharing option, read user documentation :
+  # Tranquilpeak configuration > Theme configuration > sharing-options
+  # [[params.sharingOptions]]
+  #   name = "Facebook"
+  #   icon = "fa-facebook-official"
+  #   url = "https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=%s"
+
+  # [[params.sharingOptions]]
+  #   name = "Twitter"
+  #   icon = "fa-twitter"
+  #   url = "https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=%s"
+
+  # [[params.sharingOptions]]
+  #   name = "Google+"
+  #   icon = "fa-google-plus"
+  #   url = "https://plus.google.com/share?url=%s"
+
+  # [params.header.rightLink]
+  #   class = ""
+  #   icon = ""
+  #   url = "/#about"
+
+  # Customize link of author avatar in sidebar
+  # [params.sidebar.profile]
+  #   url = "/#about"
+
+  # Customize copyright value "© 2017 <CUSTOMIZATION>. All Rights Reserved"
+  # [params.footer]
+  #   copyright = "<a href=\"https://github.com/kakawait\">kakawait</a>"

content/post/humble-beginnings.md

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+---
+title: "Humble Beginnings"
+date: 2017-12-21T01:42:57-05:00
+categories: ["Blog"]
+tags: ["code"]
+draft: true
+thumbnailImagePosition: left
+thumbnailImage: "https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/basdb-static-content/site-static/img/main.png"
+---
+After much deliberation I've finally decided to go with the [**Tranquilpeak**](https://github.com/kakawait/hugo-tranquilpeak-theme) theme. However, before this I ran into a slew of issues with the badly ported [**Tracks**](https://github.com/ageekymonk/hugo-tracks-theme) theme from WordPress
+<!--more-->
+
+If you want a general overview, feel free to check out the relevant [commit](https://github.com/bdebyl/hugo-tracks-theme/commit/86ca4963c4d0a67ddb1560197c91617e7d3e3754) on my GitHub fork.
+
+<!-- toc -->
+
+# Rough Start
+The first thing I noticed was that the navigation bar seemed a bit off.
+
+
+{{< image classes="center" src="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/basdb-static-content/site-static/img/header-problem.png" title="Navbar Issue" >}}
+
+The links show as numbers and attempt to link to `/0`, `/1`, and `/2` which lead to 404s. This didn't  seem like the intended functionality. It turned out to be a problem with the usage of the following variable: `.Site.Sections`
+
+As I'm still learning the ins and outs of Hugo, I'm not familiar with what a section *should* be, but I did know the `sidebar.html` layout file didn't seem to do anything nor exist anywhere on the site (even on mobile screen sizes). I did attempt to find out how sections work by experiment with directories along with `index.md` /  `_index.md` files within the `content/` folder. Though, I was unsuccessful in getting the structure I wanted to appear, appear, along with not really understanding why `0` and `0` pages even existed.
+
+# The Fix
+The issue lied in the following chunk of code for `layouts/partials/headers.html`:
+```html
+<div class="col-md-6">
+  <div class="menu">
+    <a href="/">Home /</a>
+    {{ range $name, $taxonomy := .Site.Sections }}
+    {{ if ne $name "post" }}
+    <a href="/{{ $name | urlize }}">{{ $name }} / </a>
+    {{ end }}
+    {{ end }}
+  </div>
+```
+
+For some reason it seemed that `.Site.Sections` would populate as `0` and `1`. Now, this may be an error of my part from lack of understanding of how Hugo works, but I have yet to make sense of the documentation as far as sections go.
+
+
+In any case, I borrowed the code found in `layouts/partials/sidebar.html` to include the nav links I desired:
+```html
+<div class="col-md-6">
+  <div class="menu">
+    {{ $url := .Site.BaseURL }}
+    {{ range .Site.Params.navlinks }}
+    <a href="{{ $url }}{{ .url }}">{{ .name }} /</a>
+    {{ end }}
+  </div>
+```
+
+----
+
+# But Wait, There's More!
+After getting more comfortable with how themes are designed for Hugo, I found a slew of other problems with the ported **Tracks** theme:
+
+* Improper HTML for `/about/` and `/contact/` resulting in a sloppy looking, inconsistent site.
+* Redundant `portfolio.html`: duplicated HTML code already used in `category.html`
+* Completely unused:
+  * `layouts/_default/taxonomy.html`
+  * `layouts/_default/list.html`
+  * `<div class="col-md-10 category-description">` in `layouts/partials/category.html`
+* Missing:
+  * Pagination
+  * Syntax Highlighting
+
+At the this point in time I decided it was no longer worth my time in trying to re-work something I wasn't very familiar with, as my main objective was simply to get a portfolio website with blog functionality up and running.