Hugo Gallery Theme

A very simple and opinionated photo gallery theme for Hugo.

Features

Responsive design
Dark theme
Private albums
Automatic (or manual) selection of feature images
Justified album views with Flickr's Justified Layout
Lightbox with PhotoSwipe
SEO with Open Graph tags

Installation

This theme requires Hugo >= 0.113.

As a Hugo Module

Requires the Go binary installed.

$ hugo mod init github.com/<your_user>/<your_project>

Add the theme to your hugo.toml

theme = ["github.com/nicokaiser/hugo-theme-gallery/v2"]

As Git Submodule

$ git submodule add --depth=1 https://github.com/nicokaiser/hugo-theme-gallery.git themes/gallery

Usage

Page bundles which contain at least one image are listed as album or gallery:

content/
├── _index.md
├── about.md             <-- not listed in album list
├── animals/
│   ├── _index.md
│   ├── cats/
│   |   ├── index.md
│   |   ├── cat1.jpg
│   |   └── feature.jpg  <-- album thumbnail
│   ├── dogs/
│   |   ├── index.md
│   |   ├── dog1.jpg     <-- album thumbnail
│   |   └── dog2.jpg
│   └── feature.jpg
├── bridge.jpg           <-- site thumbnail (OpenGraph, etc.)
└──  nature/
    ├── index.md         <-- contains `featured_image: images/tree.jpg`
    ├── images/
    |   └── tree.jpg     <-- album thumbnail
    ├── nature1.jpg
    └── nature2.jpg

/about.md is not a Page Bundle and does not have image resources. It is not displayed in the album list.
/nature is a Leaf Bundle (has index.md and no children) => displayed as gallery (single layout).
/animals is a Branch Bundle (has _index.md and has children) => displayed as album list (list layout).
The image resource with *feature* in its name or the first image found is used as thumbnail image for album lists.
Albums without an image are not shown.

Front matter

title -- title of the album, shown in the album list and on the album page.
date -- album date, used for sorting (newest first).
description -- description shown on the album page.
featured_image -- name of the image file used for the album thumbnail. If not set, the first image which contains feature in its filename is used, otherwise the first image in the album.
weight -- can be used to adjust sort order.
private -- if set to true, this album is not shown in the album overview and is excluded from RSS feeds.
featured -- if set to true, this album is listed on the homepage (even if private).
sort_by -- property used for sorting images in an album. Default is Name (filename), but can also be Exif.Date (only works if all images have EXIF tags).
sort_order -- sort order. Default is asc.

Custom CSS

This theme uses Tailwind CSS and comes with a pre-built styles.css, so installing Node.js, PostCSS, etc. is not required. Some CSS variables can be used to create a customized look:

Add a assets/css/custom.css to your site and adjust the values to your needs (see the example in exampleSite).

Albums with images and sub-albums

In some cases it might be desirable to show images and sub-albums on one page. To achive this, a local version of list.html needs to be added with something like this:

  {{ define "main" }}
    {{ partial "title.html" . }}
    {{ partial "albums.html" . }}
+   {{ partial "gallery.html" . }}
  {{ end }}

In this case, featured images for albums which only contain other albums need to be moved to a sub-directory to avoid being displayed.

Folders with no images

Albums with no images are hidden by default. This is a design decision to keep the structure as simple as possible and hides pages like about.md or imprint.md from the album list without the need of defining a layout/section for each gallery.

@baekgaard made a Pull request about handling of empty albums, which allows to modify this behaviour (which, for simplicity reasons, is not merged).

Author

Nico Kaiser

beyoung / hugo-theme-gallery