About wyllie.net

This site is built with Hugo using the Blowfish theme.

I have tried a number of blog tools including wordpress, movableType as well as some commercial tools like Squarespace and Zenfolio. As a software engineer, my preference is to build the site myself so I was looking for a platform that would allow me to have the ability easily customize features as well as, more importantly, keeping all of my content in a git repository.

More about me here: Andrew Wyllie

Shortcodes

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Here are some of my customizations/shortcodes:

• Photo - display an image with EXIF data and a caption
• Compare - overlay two images with a slider to make it easy to see the differences between the two photos
• bgbox - used to add a background color to an image or paragraph
• Colours - just a list of color options
• wyllie - homepage layout

• Colours
• photo shortcode
• release-banner — Show the latest Git tag/date

Front Matter

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Here is an example of the front matter used across the site.

• tags adds the tags on articles
• featured will add the article to the featured section of the homepage
• draft will hide the article from the homepage
• heroStyle will change the way an image is displayed at the top of the article. Options are basic, big, background, thumbAndBackground

Here’s an example for the photo shortcode:

---
title: photo shortcode
summary: how to use the photo shortcode
date: 2025-10-01
tags:
  - dev
  - about
  - shortcodes
showHero: true
heroStyle: big # background
showAuthor: true
showAuthorsBadges: true
authors:
  - "andrew"
featured: false
draft: false
---