Hugo Blog Awesome | Demo link

⚡ Fast | 📰 Clean UI | 🌙 Dark mode support | 📱 Responsive design

Screenshots

Dark mode	Light mode

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.

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.

PrimalPimmy/hugo-blog-awesome