vinliao / mita

The most boring (but gorgeous) hugo theme

Mita—the most boring (but gorgeous) hugo theme

There's one question that guided me in the process of making this theme. The question is this: "If I were to make a theme that can last decades, what would it look like?" The result is this hugo theme.

Boring on purpose:

• No fancy colors
• No categories
• No analytics
• No tracking
• No icons
• No tags
• No JS
• No BS

You can check the demo at vinliao.com.

How to install

1. On your website's root directory, run git submodule add https://github.com/vinliao/mita themes/mita
2. In your config.toml, change the theme property to theme = "mita"

How to add items in nav

Paste this to your config.toml and adjust accordingly.

[Menus]
  main = [
      {Name = "about", URL = "/about"},
      {Name = "other", URL = "/other"},
  ]

On archive

This theme has an archive, but it’s not on /posts like where the usual hugo archive is located. The archive is a shortcode. Here's how you can use it.

1. Run hugo new archive.md
2. On the archive.md file, delete date in the front matter, add {{% archive %}} in the body
3. You can access the archive at yourwebsite.com/archive

The end result of archive.md might look something like this:

---
title: "Archive"
draft: false
---
(Optional: you can put text here.)

{{% archive %}}

Misc

• You can remove a page's date by deleting the date variable in the front matter. A post without date won't be listed on the front page, but still can be accessed - e.g., an about page.
• I built this theme from scratch. If you'd like to build your own hugo theme, I've written a tutorial here.
• If you find this project useful, consider buying me coffee.