Personal academic website of Xiaopeng Xu

This is my personal website, built with Hugo and the LoveIt theme. Notes and blog posts are written as plain markdown files.

Structure

content/
├── _index.md              # home page (profile comes from hugo.toml)
├── about/index.md         # bio, research, education, experience
├── publications/index.md  # selected publications
└── posts/                 # ← write markdown notes/blogs here
    └── hello-world/index.md
static/images/avatar.png   # profile photo (replace with your own)
hugo.toml                  # site configuration
themes/LoveIt/             # theme (git submodule)
.github/workflows/hugo.yml # auto-build + deploy on push to main

Local preview

Hugo extended is required (the local binary used to build this lives at ~/bin/hugo).

# clone with the theme submodule
git clone --recurse-submodules <repo-url>
cd charlesxu90.github.io

# live preview at http://localhost:1313 (includes drafts)
hugo server -D

If you cloned without --recurse-submodules:

git submodule update --init --recursive

Writing a new note / blog post

hugo new posts/my-note/index.md

Edit the front matter, write markdown below it, then commit & push:

git add content/posts/my-note
git commit -m "post: my note"
git push           # GitHub Actions rebuilds and deploys automatically

Set draft: false when it's ready to publish.

Publishing (one-time setup)

This repo deploys via GitHub Actions (.github/workflows/hugo.yml):

1. On GitHub → Settings → Pages → Build and deployment → Source = GitHub Actions.
2. Push to main. The site builds and deploys to https://charlesxu90.github.io/.

Using your custom domain (xu-xp.com)

When you're ready to move xu-xp.com off Google Sites:

1. In hugo.toml, set baseURL = "https://www.xu-xp.com/".
2. Create a file static/CNAME containing one line: www.xu-xp.com.
3. On GitHub → Settings → Pages → Custom domain, enter www.xu-xp.com and configure your DNS (CNAME → charlesxu90.github.io).

Content

All pages are populated from the previous Google Site (xu-xp.com):

• content/about/index.md — bio, education, experience, service
• content/research/index.md — research interests
• content/publications/index.md — 16 articles, 1 patent, 2 theses (with links/PDFs)
• content/awards/index.md — awards & honours
• static/images/avatar.png — headshot (cropped from the public KAUST profile)

Social links (GitHub, Google Scholar, ResearchGate, LinkedIn, ORCID, email) are configured in hugo.toml under [params.social].

Optional follow-ups

• Swap in a higher-resolution / preferred headshot if you have one.
• Move the xu-xp.com domain over (see custom-domain steps above).