The "Best Jekyll Theme by a Mile".
Hydejack's cover page on a variety of screens.
Hydejack is your presence on the web. It gives you a blog that is suitable for both prose and technical documentation, a portfolio to showcase your projects, and a beautiful resume template that looks amazing on the web and in print.
Your presence on the web — A blog, a portfolio, and a resume.
There are two versions of Hydejack: The base version is free, while features that are specific to professionals are a payed upgrade.
| Free | PRO | |
|---|---|---|
| Blog | ✔ | ✔ |
| Features | ✔ | ✔ |
| Portfolio | ✔ | |
| Resume | ✔ | |
| Welcome | ✔ | |
| Newsletter Box | ✔ | |
| Custom Forms | ✔ | |
| Dark Mode | ✔ | |
| Offline Support | ✔ | |
| Cookie Banner | ✔ | |
| No Hydejack Branding | ✔ | |
| License | GPL-3.0 | PRO |
| Source | GitHub | Included |
| Support1 | No | No |
| Price | Free | $59 |
| Download -- or --  |
Buy PRO --- $59 |
Hydejack started out as a free blogging theme for Jekyll — and continues to be so.
A portfolio that's guaranteed to be impressive — no matter what you put into it.
Get a resume that's consistent across the board — whether it's on the web, mobile, print, or PDF.
Front and center page of a print resume generated by Hydejack.
Hydejack boasts a plethora of modern JavaScript, but make no mistake: It's still a plain old web page at its core. It works without JavaScript, and you can even view it in a text-based browser like w3m:
The Hydejack blog, as seen by the text browser w3m.
Hydejack features syntax highlighting, powered by Rouge.
document.getElementsByTagName("hy-push-state")[0].addEventListener("hy-push-state-load", function() {
// <your init code>
});They say math is beautiful — and with Hydejack's math support it's also guaranteed to look beautiful.
Hydejack uses KaTeX to efficiently render math.
The PRO version has built-in support for customizable Tinyletter newsletter subscription boxes.
If you are using a different service like MailChimp, you can build a custom newsletter subscription box using Custom Forms.
Hydejack is 100% built on Open Source software, and is Open Source itself, save for parts of the PRO version. The PRO version is a one-time payment that gives you the right to use it forever.
An incomplete list of features included in all versions of Hydejack:
- Full in-app page loading, powered by hy-push-state
- Customizable sidebar and touch-enabled drawer menu, powered by hy-drawer
- Lazy image loading with cancellation and placeholder, powered by hy-img
- Advanced FLIP animations, inspired by Material Design
- 99/100 Google PageSpeed Score2
- Syntax highlighting, powered by Rouge
- LaTeX math blocks, powered by KaTeX
- Change the wording of built-in strings and possibly translate in other languages
- Support for categories and tags
- Built-in icons for many social networks
- Simple and semantic HTML
- Structured Data for core entities
- Author section below each article and support for multiple authors
- Google Analytics and Google Fonts support
There are two versions of Hydejack: The free version includes basic blogging functionality, as did previous versions of the theme. The PRO version includes additional features for professionals: A portfolio, a resume layout, and a welcome page to highlight your favorite projects and posts.
This table below shows what's included in each version:
| Free | PRO | |
|---|---|---|
| Blog | ✔ | ✔ |
| Features | ✔ | ✔ |
| Portfolio | ✔ | |
| Resume | ✔ | |
| Welcome | ✔ | |
| Newsletter Box | ✔ | |
| Custom Forms | ✔ | |
| Dark Mode | ✔ | |
| Offline Support | ✔ | |
| Cookie Banner | ✔ | |
| No Hydejack Branding | ✔ | |
| License | GPL-3.0 | PRO |
| Source | GitHub | Included |
| Support1 | No | No |
| Price | Free | $59 |
| Download -- or -- |
Buy PRO --- $59 |
*[FLIP]: First-Last-Invert-Play. A coding technique to achieve performant page transition animations.
Footnotes
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You MAY open an issue on GitHub, but no response and/or fix is guaranteed. You understand that using Jekyll requires technical know-how and is not comparable to Wordpress in terms of ease of use. Please use the free version to confirm that Hydejack works for you. For details, see the PRO license. ↩ ↩2
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Actual page load speed depends on your hosting provider, resolution of embedded images and usage of 3rd party plugins. ↩