Wowchemy: the website builder for Hugo

The Page Builder to Easily Create Professional Websites ✏️ 📰 🚀

Create any kind of website for free with Wowchemy. Write using Markdown, Jupyter, or RStudio. Choose a beautiful template, color theme, and font. Build anything with the Page Builder - over 50 widgets, themes, and language packs included!

Check out the latest demos of what you'll get in less than 10 minutes, or view the showcase of personal, project, and business sites.

👉 Get Started
📚 View the documentation
💬 Chat with the Wowchemy community or Hugo community
🐦 Twitter: @wowchemy @GeorgeCushen #MadeWithWowchemy
💡 Request a feature or report a bug for Wowchemy
⬆️ Updating Wowchemy? View the Update Guide and Release Notes

Crowd-funded open-source software

To help us develop this template and software sustainably under the MIT license, we ask all individuals and businesses that use it to help support its ongoing maintenance and development via sponsorship.

❤️ Click here to unlock rewards with sponsorship

Ecosystem

Hugo Academic CLI: Automatically import academic publications from BibTeX
Hugo Assistant: Scripts to help migrate content to new versions of Hugo

Features

Key features:

Page builder - Create anything with widgets and elements
Edit any type of content - Blog posts, publications, talks, slides, projects, and more!
Create content in Markdown, Jupyter, or RStudio
Plugin System - Fully customizable color and font themes
Display Code and Math - Code highlighting and LaTeX math supported
Integrations - Google Analytics, Disqus commenting, Maps, Contact Forms, and more!
Beautiful Site - Simple and refreshing one page design
Industry-Leading SEO - Help get your website found on search engines and social media
Media Galleries - Display your images and videos with captions in a customizable gallery
Mobile Friendly - Look amazing on every screen with a mobile friendly version of your site
Multi-language - 15+ language packs including English, 中文, and Português
Multi-user - Each author gets their own profile page
Privacy Pack - Assists with GDPR
Stand Out - Bring your site to life with animation, parallax backgrounds, and scroll effects
One-Click Deployment - No servers. No databases. Only files.

Themes

Wowchemy comes with automatic day (light) and night (dark) mode built-in. Alternatively, click the moon icon in the top right of one of the Demos to set your preferred mode!

Choose a stunning theme for your site and customize it to your liking: