Demo link
Hugo Blog Awesome |⚡ Fast | 📰 Clean UI | 🌙 Dark mode support | 📱 Responsive design
Screenshots
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Page speed score (click to expand)
The result shown above was last confirmed on September 23, 2023. You can check the details of the PageSpeed test at this link: Link to the analysis. You can also do a live PageSpeed test of the demo website now.
Features
- Minimal design
- Light and dark mode
- Syntax highlighting
- RSS feed
- No jQuery, no Bootstrap
- 100/100 Google PageSpeed Insights score on all 4 metrics
Why this theme?
Hugo Blog Awesome (HBA) is a theme crafted to capture your readers' attention.
Additionally, it's fast, privacy-conscious, and comes with no external dependencies. That's right. There are no Google fonts, icon packs, or JavaScript frameworks. No trackers or ads to bloat your website.
Its focus on minimalism and clean UI ensures that your content takes the spotlight. This, coupled with the support for dark mode, provides a stress-free (on the eyes) reading experience for your audience.
Built with Hugo, SCSS, and vanilla JavaScript.
Setup
Note You must have the Hugo extended version installed in order to use this theme. This theme uses SCSS for styling. With the Hugo extended version, SCSS can be compiled to CSS without any additional tools.
To create a new Hugo site with this theme, run the following command:
hugo new site myblog
Then, clone this repository into the themes
directory of your new site:
cd myblog
git clone https://github.com/hugo-sid/hugo-blog-awesome.git themes/hugo-blog-awesome
To preview the theme with example content, run the following command from the exampleSite
directory:
hugo server --themesDir ../..
Usage
To use this theme, set the theme
variable in your site's config.toml
to hugo-blog-awesome
:
theme = "hugo-blog-awesome"
Configuration
You can take a look at the config.toml
file in the exampleSite
directory for an example configuration.
It is recommended that you copy the config.toml
file from the exampleSite
directory to the root directory of your Hugo site. You can then edit the config.toml
file to suit your needs.
Adding favicon
I used realfavicongenerator.net to generate the favicons. You can place the resulting files in the assets\icons
folder. That should get your favicon working.
If you want to customize anything further, you can modify layouts\partials\head.html
.
Adding Social icons
Social icons can be added by congifuring config.toml
file in the following manner.
[[params.socialIcons]]
name = "github"
url = "https://github.com/hugo-sid"
[[params.socialIcons]]
name = "twitter"
url = "https://twitter.com"
[[params.socialIcons]]
name = "Rss"
url = "index.xml"
List of available icons (click to expand)
Name | Platform |
---|---|
123rf |
123rf.com |
adobestock |
stock.adobe.com |
applemusic |
music.apple.com |
behance |
behance.net |
bilibili |
bilibili.com |
bitcoin |
- |
buymeacoffee |
buymeacoffee.com |
codepen |
codepen.io |
cryptohack |
cryptohack.org |
ctftime |
ctftime.org |
cv |
- |
deezer |
deezer.com |
dev |
dev.to |
discogs |
discogs.com |
discord |
discord.com |
dreamstime |
dreamstime.com |
dribbble |
dribbble.com |
email |
- |
facebook |
facebook.com |
flickr |
flickr.com |
freepik |
freepik.com |
gitea |
gitea.io |
github |
github.com |
gitlab |
gitlab.com |
goodreads |
goodreads.com |
googlescholar |
scholar.google.com |
guruShots |
gurushots.com |
hackerone |
hackerone.com |
hackerrank |
hackerrank.com |
hackthebox |
hackthebox.eu |
instagram |
instagram.com |
itchio |
itch.io |
kaggle |
- |
kakaotalk |
kakaocorp.com/service/KakaoTalk |
key |
- |
keybase |
keybase.io |
kofi |
ko-fi.com |
komoot |
- |
lastfm |
last.fm |
letterboxd |
- |
liberapay |
liberapay.com |
linkedin |
linkedin.com |
mastodon |
mastodon.social |
matrix |
matrix.org |
medium |
medium.com |
monero |
- |
mixcloud |
mixcloud.com |
nuget |
nuget.org |
paypal |
paypal.com |
peertube |
- |
pgp |
- |
phone |
- |
ploywork |
ploywork.com |
qq |
qq.com |
reddit |
reddit.com |
researchgate |
researchgate.net |
rss |
- |
serverfault |
serverfault.com |
soundcloud |
soundcloud.com |
shutterstock |
shutterstock.com |
slack |
slack.com |
snapchat |
snapchat.com/add |
spotify |
spotify.com |
stackoverflow |
stackoverflow.com |
steam |
steampowered.com |
strava |
strava.com |
telegram |
telegram.org |
tiktok |
tiktok.com |
twitch |
twitch.tv |
twitter (the blue bird logo) |
twitter.com |
unsplash |
unsplash.com |
x (formerly Twitter) |
x.com |
xda |
xda-developers.com |
xing |
xing.com |
ycombinator |
ycombinator.com |
youtube |
youtube.com |
other |
- |
If you are trying to add an icon that is not listed above, you can modify layouts\partials\svgs\svgs.html
to include your icon (SVG). You are encouraged to submit your icon by creating a pull request, so that others can benefit.
Enable go to top button
To enable go to top button on blog posts, set goToTop
to true
in config.toml
file.
[params]
goToTop = true
Content
Posts
To create a new post, run the following command:
hugo new posts/my-first-post.md
Then, edit the my-first-post.md
file to suit your needs.
Comments
To enable Disqus comments, set disqusShortname
in your site's config.toml
.
To use another comments system, provide your own comments.html
partial in layouts\partials\comments.html
.
Contributing
Please read CONTRIBUTING.md.
Contributors
Thanks to these wonderful people for contributing to Hugo blog awesome:
Websites using this theme
If you are using this theme for any website, feel free to list the website here. You can submit a pull request (PR) to include your website.
- https://krisnova.net/
- https://paddy-exe.github.io/
- https://www.siggijons.net/
- https://debanwita27.github.io/
- https://mrizkimaulidan.vercel.app/
- https://www.yukizr.com/
- http://liamdalg.co.uk/
- http://pratham-mishra.in/
- https://chriscodes.net/
- https://ruiper.es/
- https://www.magicplace.de/
- https://bskdany.com/
- https://josephscottcampbell.com/
- https://heckintosh.github.io/
Support
Don't forget to ⭐️ the repo if you liked this theme!
Credits
The social icons are made possible thanks to Aditya Telange's hugo-PaperMod theme.
Thanks to piharpi for creating the Jekyll klise theme. It served as an inspiration to create this Hugo theme.
License
This theme is released under the MIT license. For more information read the License.