hugo-starless/content/docs/customize.md

+++ title = "Customize" summary = "Change the title, menu, and footer strings first. Leave the rest alone until it bothers you." weight = 12 +++

The fast path is to change four things in hugo.toml: baseURL, title, params.sidebarFooter, and params.homeFooter.

Then adjust menus.main. The sidebar shape comes from the menu, so you do not need a special data file or extra config layer.

If you want a different voice on the homepage, edit content/_index.md. If you want layout changes, start in themes/starless/layouts/_default/baseof.html.

That is enough for most forks. The theme stays easier to live with if you change one obvious file at a time.